Book Reviews

"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
 

 
 
 
A Commune in Chiapas?

A Commune in Chiapas?


This pamphlet has been reviewed in this excellent in-depth essay:

AIDS Conspiracy Theories: Tracking the Real Genocide

AIDS conspiracy Theories: Tracking the Real Genocide, by David Gilbert with commentary

This is in my opinion one of the most important and easily-accessible publications that i distribute, and it is with great sadness that i observe that it hasn't really been dealt with - either positively or negatively - by most comrades. So far these are the only reviews i have found:

Racance of Reprodutcion by Leopoldina Fortunati

The Arcane of Reproduction, by Leopoldina Fortunati

A book that is truly difficult to read, steeped ni the canon 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

Bottomfish Blues: The Coming of Black Genocide and other essays, by Mary Barfoot

This book has been reviewed in:

Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Federici

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

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

Confronting Fascism - Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement

This book has been reviewed in:

FARC-EP Historical Outline

FARC-EP -Historical Outline

This book has been reviewed in:




Hot Lead is Medicine

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:


Money and Power Hook or Crook by Zolo Agona Azania

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 is appealing, shamelessly pulling out all the stops to kill this man!



Night-Vision: illuminating war and class on the neo-colonial terrain

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, by David Gilbert

No Surrender, writings by an anti-imperialist political prisoner






On the Justiec of Roosting Chickens

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


Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat

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
When Race Burns Class

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:


 

If you have any other serious reviews of anything i stock, please email me and let me know of them. I am even willing to scan them in to my computer or type them manually if they are not yet available online.


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!

Sketchy Thoughts

The following reviews/discussions are by yours truly, from my blog Sketchy Thoughts:

Science Fiction

Links to reviews and discussions of my favourite genre.



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