By: Combahee River Collective
Format: 21 pages, Paperback
The Combahee River Collective Statement was issued in 1977. An essential piece of feminist theory a…
Want to Read"In the practice of our politics we do not believe that the end always justifies the means."-Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
"In the practice of our politics we do not believe that the end always justifies the means."-Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
"Although we are feminists and lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand."-Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
"Although we are feminists and lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand."-Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
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By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more
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"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution
By: Friedrich Engels
Format: 25 pages, ebook
In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more
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By: Audre Lorde
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
"There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise." Thus begins this power… read more
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"The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible."-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be ca…"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be …"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear of our desires ke…"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. … read more
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"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
By: Joseph Stalin
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more
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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism
By: Audre Lorde
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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By: J. Jack Halberstam
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
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By: Albert Einstein
Format: 12 pages, None
“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the… read more
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"Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed"-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward socia…"-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is …"-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
"The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the capit…"-Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
By: Michael Parenti
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more
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"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
By: Eli Clare , Suzanne Pharr
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
“Eli Clare works a vital alchemy. . . . Using the language of the elemental world, he delineates a … read more
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"The body as home, but only if it is understood that bodies are never singular, but rather haunted, strengthened, underscored by countless other bodies."-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
"Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaimin…"-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
"I want to sharpen my pride on what strengthens me, my witness on what haunts me. Whatever we name ourselves, however we end up shattering our self-hatred, shame, silence, and isolation, the goal is t…"-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
"The mannerisms that help define gender - the way in which people walk,swing their hips, gesture with their hands, move their mouths and eyes when they talk, take up space - are all based upon how non…"-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more
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By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more
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By: Tariq Ali , Fidel Castro
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
In response to the American administration's attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a seri… read more
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By: Judith Butler
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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By: Angela Y. Davis
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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By: Vladimir Lenin
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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By: bell hooks
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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By: Audre Lorde
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Judith Butler
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
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By: Angela Y. Davis
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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By: Judith Butler
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." – Cornel West“Ju… read more
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"Why is a petition for peace called a “violent"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
"If the interdiction against killing rests on the presumption that all lives are valuable—that they bear value as lives, in their status as living beings—then the universality of the claim only holds …"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
"[A]s we know from the increasingly urgent issue of climate change, the environment changes as a result of human intervention, bearing the effects of our own powers to destroy the conditions of livabi…"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
"There is no way to name something as either violence or nonviolence without at once invoking the framework in which that designation makes sense. That may seem like a form of relativism—what you call…"-Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more
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"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
By: Combahee River Collective
Format: 21 pages, Paperback
The Combahee River Collective Statement was issued in 1977. An essential piece of feminist theory a… read more
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"In the practice of our politics we do not believe that the end always justifies the means."-Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
"Although we are feminists and lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand."-Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
By: Casey Plett
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
ONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL We need community to live. But what doe… read more
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By: Lola Olufemi
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
We collectively build and collectively shatter—every broken window is a new opportunity; every burn… read more
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"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"Fuck genius. Or anything other than what we make with many hands. Injecting mixed thoughts into the superstructure, into the fight between classes, into the annals of history’s radical traditions mea…"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"If we hold commitments and dreams to end violence, we must account for those who perpetrate it without banishment. The scope of our concern must extend beyond ‘I’—the individual person who we imagine…"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
By: Akwaeke Emezi
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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