Category: Book Reviews

The Unacceptable Easiness of Killing – on Western Terrorism

The Unacceptable Easiness of Killing – on Western Terrorism

By Milenko Srećković Often repeated statement about the greatest crime on European territory after WWII being committed in Srebrenica seems like being designed to hide the fact that the greatest crimes after Hitler were committed precisely by European states and countries of European descent, such as United States of America. Such crimes, of much greater proportions than the one in […]

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Book Review: On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare (2013, Pluto Press) by Noam Chomsky and Andre Vltchek

Book Review: On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare (2013, Pluto Press) by Noam Chomsky and Andre Vltchek

 By Richard Falk, Foreign Policy Journal Recently I read On Western Terrorism: from Hiroshima to Drone Warfare, published in 2013 by Pluto Press here in London, consisting of a series of conversations between Chomsky and the Czech filmmaker, journalist, and author, Andre Vltchek, who is now a naturalized American citizen. Vltchek in an illuminating Preface describes his long and close friendship […]

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Ours to master and to own
Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present (2011)
Autor: Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini
Publisher: Haymarket Books

Ours to master and to own – Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present

From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and have gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. Looking at specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, […]

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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Free Download)

Debt: The First 5000 Years (Free Download)

Debt: The First 5000 Years is a book by anthropologist David Graeber published in 2011. Graeber analyzes the function of debt in human history. He traces the history of debt from ancient civilizations to our modern-day economic crises, arguing that debt has often driven revolutions and social and political changes. The book has been connected to movements like Occupy Wall […]

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Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe (Free Download)

Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe (Free Download)

Land issues and ‘land grabs’ are mostly associated with the global South, however 13 country studies in this landmark report reveal an accelerating grab and concentration of land across Europe. Introduction: The report and its highlights Land issues are rarely considered to be a problem for Europeans, or cause for people’s struggles in Europe today, as it is elsewhere in […]

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