Fidel Castro & Ignacio Ramonet (2006) Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography Numerous attempts have been made to get Fidel Castro to tell his own story. But it was only as he stepped down after five decades […]
Ilan Pappe (2007) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and […]
Edward W. Said (1992) The Question of Palestine This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate–one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought […]
Edward Said (1979) Orientalism More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said’s groundbreaking critique of the West’s historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, […]
Frantz Fanon (1961) The Wretched of the Earth A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in […]
Karl Marx (1867) Capital (Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy) Perhaps one of the most infamous works of the modern world, “Capital” is the German treatise on political economy by Karl Marx that critically analyzes capitalism. First […]
Ho Chi Minh (2011) The Selected Works of Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh (1890 – 1969), born Nguyen Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyen Ai Quoc, was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister […]
Amilcar Cabral (1970-72) Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amilcar Cabral Amilcar Cabral, who was the Secretary-General of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC), was assassinated by Portuguese agents […]
Jose Marti (1880s-1890s) Our America: Writings on Latin America and the Struggle for Cuban Independence Presents the celebrated Cuban revolutionary’s thoughts on “Nuestra America,” the Latin America Martí fought to make free.
Albert Hourani (1991) A History of the Arab Peoples Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani’s masterwork was hailed as the definitive story of Arab civilization, and became both a bestseller and an instant classic. In a panoramic […]
Howard Zinn (1980) A People’s History of the United States With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book’s thirty-five year history and demonstrates once again why it is […]
Eduardo Galeano (1971) Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. […]
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2015) An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally […]