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Moral Abdication. How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

Didier Fassin

Western governments and elites have supported the destruction of Gaza, silencing the Palestinians and those who speak on their behalf. Providing a record of the first six months of the war waged by the Israeli army after the 7 October attacks and drawing on a rich range of international sources, Didier Fassin examines how most Western governments have acquiesced in and often contributed to the destruction, by the Israeli army, of Gaza, its homes, infrastructures, hospitals, institutions of education, and civilian population. To justify their support and prevent criticism, they have provided an official version of the events, adopting the Israeli narrative. It was largely taken up by mainstream media, which ignored the experiences and perspectives of Palestinians. Dissenting voices were silenced. A policing of language and thought was imposed. Censorship and self-censorship became normalized. To call for a ceasefire or to demand the respect of humanitarian law was enough to prompt the ever-ready accusation of antisemitism. Exploring the multiple dimensions of the extreme inequality of lives between the two sides of the conflict and analyzing the complex geopolitical, economic and ideological stakes that underlie it, Fassin intends to constitute an archive of this moral abdication. In his view, the abandonment of the values and principles proclaimed by Western elites to be foundational will leave a deep scar in the history of the world.

Light in Gaza. Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing & Michael Merryman (eds)

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.

Voice of the Nakba. A Living History of Palestine

Diana Allan (ed)

First-generation Palestinian refugees recall life before and after the Nakba

Feminist Freedom Warriors. Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope

Chandra Talpade Mohanty & Linda E. Carty

Started as a digital archive project, Feminist Freedom Warriors tells the stories of women of colour from the Global South, weaving together cross-generational histories of feminist activism across national borders. These engaging interviews with sister comrades such as Angela Davis, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Himani Bannerji, and more will inform, inspire, and activate the imagination to explore what a just world might look like. The book features interviews with activists from movements spanning the last seven decades in the United States, India, Mexico, Palestine, Nigeria, South Africa, and beyond.

Turn the World Inside Out. The Emergence of Nurturance Culture

Nora Samaran

Nurturance culture is the inverse of abuse and patriarchy; its practice could be answer to systemic violence and oppression.

Women, Resistance and Revolution. A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World

Sheila Rowbotham

This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution is an invaluable historical study, as well as a trove of anecdote and example fit to inspire today’s generation of feminist thinkers and activists.

The Kurdish Women's Movement. History, Theory, Practice

Dilar Dirik

The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of the most exciting revolutionary experiment in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle, most recently in the fight against ISIS, Rojava embodies a radical commitment to ecology, democracy and gender equality. But while striking images of Kurdish women in desert fatigues proliferate, a true understanding of the women's movement remains elusive.Taking apart the superficial and Orientalist frameworks that dominate, Dilar Dirik offers instead an empirically rich account of the women's movement in Kurdistan. Drawing on original research and ethnographic fieldwork, she surveys the movement's historical origins, ideological evolution, and political practice over the past forty years. Going beyond abstract ideas, Dirik locates the movement's culture and ideology in its concrete work for women's liberation and radical democracy.Taking the reader from the guerrilla mountains to radical women's academies and self-organised refugee camps, the book invites women around the world to engage with the revolution in Kurdistan, both theoretically and practically, as a vital touchstone in the wider struggle for a militant anti-fascist, anti-capitalist feminist internationalism.

Abolition. Feminism. Now

Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners & Beth E. Richie

An urgent, vital contribution to the indivisible projects of abolition and feminism from leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth E. Richie.

Women and the Politics of Class

Joanna Brenner

Drawing on explorations of the labour movement and working-class politics, Brenner provides a materialist approach to one of the most important issues of feminist theory today: ethnicity, the intersection of race, nationality, gender, sexuality and class.

Abolition Feminisms Vol. 2. Feminist ruptures against the Carceral State

Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers & Brooke Lober (eds)

A collection of radical reconsiderations and creative critiques that aims to expose, disrupt, and uproot carcerality.

Abolition Feminisms Vol. 1. Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice

Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers & Brooke Lober (eds)

Abolition Feminisms: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice, offers wide-ranging feminist abolitionist methods for liberation forged in collectivity, radical care, and transformation.

The Big Heat. Earth on the Brink

Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank

It's hot out there and there's nothing natural about it. Two environmental journalists take us on a tour of the human causes of the devastation.

Ecosocialism. A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

Michael Lowy

Praise for On Changing the World: "His collection of essays, combining scholarship with passion, impresses by its sweep and scope."—Daniel Singer Ecosocialists believe that the prevention of an unprecedented ecological catastrophe and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life are incompatible with the expansive and destructive logic of the capitalist system. The present collection of articles explores some of the main ecosocialist proposals and some concrete experiences of struggle, particularly in Latin America. Michael Löwy is emerit Research Director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). His books have been translated into twenty-nine languages.

The Solutions are Already Here. Tactics for Ecological Revolution from Below.

Peter Genderloos

As the climate crisis worsens, we must look to revolutionary strategy for justice

Practicing Social Ecology. From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond

Eleanor Finley

An eco-socialist's handbook on how to change the world

This System is Killing Us. Land Grabbing, the Green Economy & Ecological Conflict

Xander Dunlap

Learning lessons from those on the front lines of capitalist environmental destruction

No Planet B. A teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis

Lucy Diavolo (ed)

An essential collection of Teen Vogue contributions on climate justice that makes an urgent argument for intersectional activism.

Crisis and Control. The Militarization of Protest Policing

Lesley J. Wood

Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal shifts in political and economic systems are transforming the policing of protest, based on a compelling empirical study of police agencies and practices from 1995 until the present. Lesley J. Wood shows that the increasing role of the security and defense industries, professional police associations, anti-terrorism initiatives and the diffusion of 'best practices' amongst policing networks have accelerated the use of less lethal weapons, pre-emptive arrests and barricading strategies against protesters. Crisis and Control uses novel theoretical and methodological approaches and a unique range of empirical data to make an important and radical contribution to a growing field.

Thinking Beyond War. Civil-Military Relations and Why America Fails to Win the Peace

Isaiah Wilson

This book argues that a major reason for America's propensity to 'lose the peace' is the way the nation defines war and how the U.S. military is currently organized for warfare. The author offers new propositions and operational approaches to war-planning that give new hope and practical solutions to overcoming the paradox of American Way of War.

From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

An indispensable contribution to the movement for racial justice in postracial America."

The Fair Trade Scandal. Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich

Ndongo S. Sylla

The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at an a consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign. Through a razor-sharp analysis based on insider knowledge, Ndongo Sylla shows that there is a big gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results. Sylla shows empirically that Fair Trade excludes those who need it the most and that its benefits are essentially captured by the wealthiest groups in the supply chain. Based on his experience of working for Fairtrade International Sylla shows the flaws in the Fair Trade system which compromise its ethical mission. The Fair Trade Scandal is both a provocative and deeply informative exploration of the Fair Trade phenomenon, suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike.

Us Politics in an Age of Uncertainty. Essays on a New reality

Lance Selfa (ed)

As Black As Resistance. Finding the Conditions for Liberation

Zoé Samudzi & William C. Anderson

Into The Tempest. Essays on the New Global Capitalism

William I. Robinson

These ten essays provide a comprehensive introduction and overview of the theory of global capitalism and its application to a wide range of contemporary issues that will be accessible to activists and the general public yet also satisfying for scholars.