"I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance."
- bell hooks
The Reviews
A Commune in Chiapas?
AIDS conspiracy Theories:
Tracking the Real Genocide,
by David Gilbert with commentary
An important investigation into the racist and reactionary underpinnings of many conspiracy theories about AIDS. Reviewed in:
For more on and by David Gilbert, click here.
AIDS Conspiracy Theories can be read online here.
The Arcane of Reproduction,
by Leopoldina Fortunati
A book that is truly difficult to read, steeped in the verbiage
of autonomist marxist theory, this book is nevertheless an interesting
attempt to integrate feminist appreciation of the economic value of
housework and prostitution into Marxist theory.Bottomfish Blues:
The Coming of Black Genocide and other essays,
by Mary Barfoot
This book has been reviewed in:
Caliban and the Witch:
Women the Body and Primitive Accumultion
by Sylvia Federici
This book has been reviewed in:see also Useless Gender, a chapter of the book subRosa available online at http://www.refugia.net/yes/yes_06useless.pdf
Collective Liberation On My Mind,
by Chris Crass
This book has been reviewed in:also read an interview with the author on this site!
Confronting Fascism
Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement
This book has been reviewed in:Defying the Tomb
Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin "Rashid" Johnson featuring exchanges with an Outlaw
This book has been reviewed in:Divided World Divided Class:
Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism
This book has been reviewed in:
FARC-EP - Historical Outline
This book has been reviewed in:
Hot Lead is Medicine, thoughts on Whiteness, privilege and violence
This pamphlet has been reviewed by yours truly on the Sketchy Thoughts blog; to see the review click here!
Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier's Story
writings by a revolutionary New Afrikan anarchist
This book has been reviewed in a number of places. I gotta
warn you - i, er, ahmm, errrr - don't have much nice to say
about some of these reviewers. In fact, i feel embarassed for
them based on what they wrote. Of course, there are also those who
clearly DO have their heads screwed on right. I could be patronizing and
separate the "approved" and "not so approved" reviews, but i'll
let everyone figure it all out for themselves. That said, this book has been reviewed in:
For more on and by Kuwasi Balagoon, click here.
Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth
New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings by James Yaki Sayles
The author's mission is to make up for the misunderstanding of Fanon’s politics that he and so many of his young rebel comrades once had. To help guide the study by newer rebels of this complex and difficult reading.
Necessary reading...
Reviews:
Money and Power Hook or Crook,
by Zolo Agona Azania
This is a pamphlet of short ssays by Zolo Agona Azania, a New Afrikan
political prisoner who has spent 23 years on death row, and this despite
having forced the State to admit to racist improprieties in his trial
and and having his sentence overturned not once but twice - despite a judge
ruling in May 2005 that the State should not be allowed to pursue the death
penalty a third time as this would constitute a clear violation of Azania’s
rights, the prosecution appealed, shamelessly pulling out all the stops
to kill this man. Luckily, the courts rejected this, and Azania now has a release date.
Reviewed by:
For more on and Zolo Agona Azania, click here.
Night-Vision:
Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain,
by Butch Lee and Red Rover
This book has been reviewed in:
No Surrender,
writings by an anti-imperialist political prisoner,
by David Gilbert
A collection of writings by this North American political prisoner.
For more on and by David Gilbert, click here.
On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,
by Ward Churchill
This
book is reviewed by<
You can read the introductory essay to this book here: Some People Push Back
The Red Army Faction A Documentary History, Volume I:
Projectiles for the People
This book has been reviewed by:
The author-editors of this book have been interviewed in several places; see the German Guerilla website for more details.
Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat,
by J. Sakai
This book has been reviewed by
Also read an interview with the author from When Race Burns Class
For more on and by J. Sakai, click here.
The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind, by Safiya Bukhari
This book has been reviewed by:
For more about this book, and related events, click here.
When Race Burns Class: Settlers revisited -
an interview with author J. Sakai &
"The Continuing Appeal of Anti-Imperialism"
by Kuwasi Balagoon
This book has been
reviewed by:For more on and by J. Sakai, click here.
Science Fiction
Links to reviews and discussions of my favourite genre.
Other Books Reviewed by Other Folks
The following is a list of interesting book reviews of works that i do not stock, and in some cases haven't even read. But the reviews are cool!
Crimethinc. book, equally applicable to a lot of post-situ lifestyle stuff