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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
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Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
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Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
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Walter Rodney: A Lightning Rod of Black Working Class Power
On the anniversary of the assassination of Walter Rodney, we are proud to publish a new edition of his seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism
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Bedlam: A Novel
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Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change
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The Literary Workshop: The Chaotic Space Where Books Are Made
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Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class
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The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs
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Walter Rodney and the Question of Power: C.L.R James
In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.
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Walter Rodney's legacy: by Angela Davis
“If Walter Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could not have been more wrong.” — Angela Davis
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Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa
Walter Rodney describes the ways colonialism reversed the continent's various paths of progress in order to solidify colonial exploitation.






