Recent Books-
- Thursday, Jun 09, 2011
Book This reader explores the conceptual and methodological dimensions of participatory research and the politics and practice of participation in development. Book Part of Zed's groundbreaking Rebels series, Garry Leech has written the definitive introduction to the FARC, examining the group's origins, aims and ideology, and looking at its organizational and operational structures -
- Thursday, May 12, 2011
Book Based on interviews with people actually participating in the negotiations, this remarkable book lifts the shroud of secrecy surrounding these ostensibly democratic negotiations. Book In this insightful and revealing book, Harten attempts to explain the success of the MAS and its wider consequences, showing how Morales has become the symbol for a new political consciousness that has entailed de-stigmatizing indigenous identities. -
- Saturday, Apr 30, 2011
Book Survey of Canadian legal history and Aboriginal peoples. -
- Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011
Book Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog. -
- Thursday, Apr 14, 2011
Book Kerem Oktem charts the contemporary history of Turkey. Book Bringing together the lessons learned from four intensively-researched case studies the book argues that the overly rigid 'cookie-cutter' approach to demilitaristation is ineffective at meeting the myriad of challenges involving militias. -
- Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011
Book How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact does it have on those who participate in it and those who simply watch it? Is the Greek revolt of December 2008 confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, or are there lesso... -
- Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011
Book From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the participants in the "battle of Seattle" and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been inspired by the ideal of a free society of free individuals-a world without hierarchy or domination. -
- Thursday, Mar 10, 2011
Book This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria Book Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements. Book Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's volu... Book Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and the historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948 and became involuntary citizens of the State of Israel. -
- Thursday, Feb 24, 2011
Book This book looks at the history of the experiments in grassroots democracy in China, how they arose, what they have achieved and where they might be going. -
- Thursday, Jan 20, 2011
Book FROM BEAN TO BAR - WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM?
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- Thursday, Jan 13, 2011
Book South Africa Pushed to the Limit shows that although the legacies of apartheid and colonialism weigh heavy, many of the strategic choices made since the early 1990s have compounded those handicaps -
- Thursday, Dec 30, 2010
Book In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy. -
- Monday, Dec 20, 2010
Book The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, editors Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars... -
- Wednesday, Nov 24, 2010
Book WAR IS A LIE is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good. -
- Tuesday, Nov 16, 2010
Book In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. -
- Monday, Nov 15, 2010
Book Don't Mourn, Balkanize! Is the first book written from the radical left perspective on the topic of Yugoslav space after the dismantling of the country. -
- Saturday, Oct 09, 2010
Book Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and some... Book A new work in a theory of transition to socialism for the twenty-first century. -
- Thursday, Sep 30, 2010
Book In the 1950s, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. During his childhood, Chang (Kicking Away the Ladder), a respected economist at the U. of Cambridge, witnessed the beginnings of Korea's postwar economic miracle as Gen. Park... -
- Sunday, Sep 26, 2010
Book The story behind Israel’s assault on Gaza, by acclaimed Ha’aretz journalist. Book The prison letters of Black revolutionary George Jackson. -
- Saturday, Sep 25, 2010
Book How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems Book Conversations with Edward Said by David Barsamian. -
- Friday, Sep 24, 2010
Book An early dystopian classic concerning the rise of monopoly capitalism and class warfare in the USA. - All Recent Books
 Anarchy Reading List-
- Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011
Book From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the participants in the "battle of Seattle" and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been inspired by the ideal of a free society of free individuals-a world without hierarchy or domination. -
- Saturday, Aug 07, 2010
Book Guerin's classic anthology of anarchism translated and reprinted, available for the first time in a single volume. Book "One of the ablest leaders and writers of the French New Left describes the two realms of â??anarchismâ???its intellectual substance, and its actual practice through the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the Italian Factory Councils, an... Book The collected writings of Peter Kropotkin. Book An introduction to anarchist ideas, a history of the international workers movement and an outline of the strategies and tactics embraced at the time. A prolific writer and speaker, -
- Tuesday, Jul 20, 2010
Book This popular, well-researched book opens with the Italian Anarchist Fanelli's stirring visit to Spain in 1868 and traces the movement's checkered but steady growth for the next seventy years. - All Anarchy Reading List
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Sustainer/Writer Reviews-
- Saturday, Apr 30, 2011
Book Review Book review of Sidney Harring, White Man's Law (UTP, 1998). -
- Sunday, Apr 17, 2011
Book Review Book Review of "The Shape of the Beast" by Arundhati Roy. -
- Friday, Mar 25, 2011
Book Review Review of Cindy Milstein's Anarchism and Its Aspirations. -
- Friday, Mar 11, 2011
Book Review Standard textbooks use a method that eschews the most elementary logic. -
- Monday, Feb 07, 2011
Book Review A book review of Andrej Grubacic's "Don't Mourn, Balkanize!" -
- Thursday, Nov 25, 2010
Book Review David Swanson’s new book refutes all the arguments used to justify wars, and is highly recommended for both general audiences and experienced activists. -
- Wednesday, Nov 03, 2010
Book Review Bombing from the air makes war seem easy, effective, and bloodless—at least to those of us far from the ground zeroes. - All Sustainer/Writer Reviews
ZNet Article Reviews-
- Saturday, Apr 21, 2012
ZNet Article , The Socialist Alternative presents a strong case for placing the transformation of values at the center of the discussion of socialist construction -
- Monday, Feb 27, 2012
ZNet Article A review and interview with the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, by Belén Fernández, published by Verso -
- Sunday, Feb 26, 2012
ZNet Article Review of Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt -
- Saturday, Feb 25, 2012
ZNet Article Review of The Unmaking of Israel -
- Sunday, Feb 12, 2012
ZNet Article Saramago's ideas and work -
- Saturday, Jan 28, 2012
ZNet Article Review of Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011) -
- Friday, Jan 06, 2012
ZNet Article Review of Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez And The Two Souls Of The United Farm Workers - All ZNet Article Reviews
Z Magazine Book Reviews
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- Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011
ZMag Article A new book by Hamid Dabashi on abetters of neocolonialism ZMag Article A new book by Bruce E. Levine on fighting corporatocracy -
- Wednesday, May 04, 2011
ZMag Article A new book by Derek Wall on the left/ecology-oriented third party -
- Sunday, May 01, 2011
ZMag Article A new book by Steve Early on a divisive dispute in California ZMag Article A new book by Brian Tokar on climate crisis and needed social change - All Z Magazine Book Reviews
Book Interviews-
- Friday, Aug 12, 2011
ZNet Article Interview with Chang about development economics, politics, and environmental issues. -
- Friday, Feb 18, 2011
ZNet Article Law professor says Egypt was a common destination for torture of detainees sent by U.S. -
- Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011
ZNet Article An interview with Gilbert Achcar, who explores the Arab world’s complex and sometimes contradictory relationship with the Holocaust. -
- Saturday, Nov 20, 2010
ZNet Article Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. ZNet Article In part two Paul Street considers Obama’s impact on race relations, the decline of the American left, and the US mid-term elections.
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- Monday, Nov 15, 2010
ZNet Article An interview about his new book comprised of commentaries, interviews, and essays written for ZNet and Z Magazine. -
- Sunday, Nov 07, 2010
ZNet Article Book Interview with author Benjamin Dangl. - All Book Interviews
Featured Books Cohn: The United States and Torture
Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several y... Dangl: Dancing with Dynamite
In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning gover... Grubacic: Don't Mourn, Balkanize!
Don't Mourn, Balkanize! Is the first book written from the radical left perspective on the topic ... Aronowitz: False Promises
Reprint of classic work on the American Working class and class consciousness... 'False Promises ... Zinn: The Bomb
Howard Zinn (1922 –2010) was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missi... Zinn: Three Strikes
When the National Guard arrived in Ludlow, Colorado, in the fall of 1913, striking coal miners ch... Hahnel: ABC's of Political Economy
The ABCs of Political Economy is an accessible introduction to modern political economy. While in... Parecon Reading List-
- Saturday, Aug 07, 2010
Book After explaining why hierarchical production, inegalitarian consumption, central planning, and market allocations are incompatible with "classlessness," the authors present an alternative model of democratic workers' and consumers' councils operat... Book A broad look at diverse sides of social life - proposing alternatives and strategy - economics, politics, kinship, culture, ecology, international relations, and more... Book The Trajectory of Change charts a course for the growing, international movement against corporate globalization. -
- Tuesday, Aug 19, 2008
Book “What do you want?” is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provide... -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book In "Economic Justice and Democracy "Robin Hahnel presents a coherent set of economic institutions and procedures that can deliver economic justice and democracy through a "participatory economy." But he also explores how to promote the economics o... - All Parecon Reading List
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Book Audio & Video-
- Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011
Audio In International Women's Week, the Guardian asks 'who are the heroines of literature?' The Books podcast 'Heroines and feminists' profiles Rosa Luxemburg. -
- Sunday, Jan 23, 2011
Video Anarchist Economics Panel at the North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN) 2011 -
- Sunday, Nov 28, 2010
Video JAY-Z in conversation with Cornel West and Paul Holdengräber -
- Saturday, Nov 27, 2010
Video A discussion with Toni Morrison at the New york Public Library. -
- Monday, Nov 22, 2010
Video Ben Dangl discusses his new book... - All Book Audio & Video
Book Comments-
- Thursday, Aug 18, 2011
Forum Post whenever I share this book with people or even suggest the possibility that the American Government has/is doing this, people look at me as if I have two heads. I have a signed copy from Mr. Blum and whenever I do allow people to read it, I always... -
- Thursday, Apr 28, 2011
Forum Post For some reason the review I wrote remains attached to this other entry here:
http://www.zcommunications.org/book-review-bonita-lawrence-real-indians-and-others-by-paul-burrows
Forum Post I have tried several times now to click on the the "review this book" button above. It let's me upload a review, but then for some reason sends it over to a different page where someone else has made an entry for this same titl... -
- Saturday, Apr 09, 2011
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- Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011
Forum Post The central argument of this book is that obesity and climate change, far from being separate ills afflicting twenty-first-century society, are twin facets of modern capitalism’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuels...
http://www.co... Forum Post Choc-o-nomics: Why misguided western meddling can sour good ideas
A new book shows how a mix of reform and continuity using the private and public sector is the only way to ensure development goals are met in different countries
http://www.guardi... Forum Post The price of a lunchtime Twix can have a devastating effect on farmers in west Africa. By Jeremy Harding...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/29/chocolate-nations-cocoa-west-africa-review?INTCMP=SRCH Forum Post African farmers who produce chocolate can’t afford to eat it. Tells the harsh economic facts... http://www.islingtontribune.com/reviews/books/2011/jan/books-review-chocolate-nations-living-and-dying-cocoa-west-africa-orla-ryan Forum Post Chocolate nations - Living and dying for cocoa in West Africa:
http://www.new-ag.info/book/review.php?a=1877 Forum Post Cocoa in West Africa
A book by Orla Ryan asks why workers in the cocoa industry remain poor when chocolate consumption is so high...
http://www.thinkafricapress.com/article/cocoa-west-africa - All Book Comments
Fem. & Queer Reading List-
- Thursday, Aug 12, 2010
Book The author, a gay health activist and journalist, offers a progressive vision of democracy as an experiment, a process in need of constant renewal, as seen through the lens of the gay rights movement. -
- Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010
Book This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues that the "feminization of poverty" is not a recent development but dates back to colonial times. Book Powerful presentation of feminist theory and analysis... Book As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham's A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States is a monumental study--scholarly, readable, well-illustrated, well-indexed--of Western women's experience in the 20th century. Book A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other. -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book The lead article, by Heidi Hartmann... Book From Walt Whitman to Boy George, gay culture has profoundly shaped American society. - All Fem. & Queer Reading List
Economics Reading List-
- Thursday, Aug 12, 2010
Book How are corporations tightening their grip on the global political economy? How does this affect you? Book In November 1999, when more than forty thousand demonstrators in Seattle effectively shut down a World Trade Organization (WTO) conference, we saw what may well have been this country’s largest popular protest of the last twenty years or more. Book As we enter the 21st century, many countries of the South are in a state of economic crisis, with once optimistic visions of the future cruelly dashed by rising mass poverty, inequality, and hunger. -
- Saturday, Aug 07, 2010
Book The ABCs of Political Economy is an accessible introduction to modern political economy. While informed by the work of Marx, Keynes, Veblen, Kalecki and other great political economists, Robin Hahnel teaches the reader the essential tools necessar... Book After explaining why hierarchical production, inegalitarian consumption, central planning, and market allocations are incompatible with "classlessness," the authors present an alternative model of democratic workers' and consumers' councils operat... Book This widely acclaimed work, first published in 1974, overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology and became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological inquiry, including the science of managerial control, the relationship ... -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America’s ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. Book "For years, people have been asking what to read to understand the global economy, its institutions, its crises, the reasons for the particular forms it has taken and their effects- and what they can do about it. Is there really "No Alternative," ... Book In "Economic Justice and Democracy "Robin Hahnel presents a coherent set of economic institutions and procedures that can deliver economic justice and democracy through a "participatory economy." But he also explores how to promote the economics o... Book What Is to Be Undone: A Modern Revolutionary Discussion of Classical Left Ideologies (An Extending Horizons Book) - All Economics Reading List
Labor Reading List-
- Monday, Aug 16, 2010
Book Reprint of classic work on the American Working class and class consciousness... 'False Promises is a classic of its type, and well-known to specialist in labor studies. It is a highly original and bold perspective on American labor, still widely ... Book A Program for labor including the idea of non reformist struggles for reforms... -
- Thursday, Aug 12, 2010
Book "Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."-... Book When the National Guard arrived in Ludlow, Colorado, in the fall of 1913, striking coal miners cheered. Five months later the Guard opened fire on them and their families. So begins Three Strikes, a collaboration by acclaimed American historians. Book In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their be... - All Labor Reading List
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