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The Invention of the White Race

by Theodore W. Allen

Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America
Darkwater

by W.E.B. Du Bois

“Du Bois essentially defined black America in the twentieth century.”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates

25 posts
A Kick in the Belly

by Stella Dadzie

The story of how enslaved women struggled for freedom in the West Indies

12 posts
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

by Deepa Kumar

A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edition

4 posts

White Skin, Black Fuel

by Andreas Malm and The Zetkin Collective

What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change?

15 posts
We Fight Fascists

by Daniel Sonabend

The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War II

2 posts
Set the Night on Fire

by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties

16 posts
Elegy for Mary Turner

by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork

3 posts

Hostile Environment

by Maya Goodfellow

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politics

14 posts
The Black Romantic Revolution

by Matt Sandler

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolition

3 posts
The Common Wind

by Julius S. Scott

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

10 posts
Revolutionary Feminisms

Edited by Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah

A unique book, tracing forty years of anti-racist feminist thought

16 posts

The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

The bestselling study of Jewish history

40 posts
The Future of Difference

by Sabine Hark and Paula-Irene Villa

A feminist critique of racist feminisms

6 posts
Reactionary Democracy

by Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter

Democracy must be anti-racist. Any less is cowardly. Any less is reactionary

5 posts
The Burmese Labyrinth

by Carlos Sardiña Galache

A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Myanmar and the origins of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas

2 posts

Toward Freedom

by Touré F. Reed

In the age of runaway inequality and Black Lives matter, there is an emerging consensus that our society has failed to redress racial disparities. But who is the culprit?

6 posts
Holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia

by Winston James

Recipient of the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship

6 posts
Born Jewish

by Marcel Liebman

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

4 posts
Antisemitism and the Labour Party

Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner

What is the truth behind the claims of antisemitism against Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party?

4 posts

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