Introduction Welcome to the study and discussion guide that accompanies the 2nd edition of Palestine, Israel and the U.S. empire. Published in early 2024 by 1804 Books, the new edition includes a sharp analysis of the historical context of, and contemporary...
The Russian Revolution: a view from the Third World (study guide)
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney offers an excellent example of basing one's conclusions and assessments on of all available evidence, data, and contextual information. As a radical historian, Rodney’s example has much to offer the...
Pedagogy of the oppressed (study guide)
Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed is a bedrock for progressive and revolutionary educators worldwide. Published in 1968 and translated into English two years later, the text is so popular that it's even taught in mainstream schools of education. Although Freire...
The communist manifesto (study guide)
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto as “a complete theoretical and practical party program” for the initially German-based, and then international, Communist League. It was written and published during the heat of revolutionary uprisings...
Blood in my eye (study guide)
George Jackson finished writing Blood in My Eye just before he was assassinated by San Quentin prison guards in 1971. Jackson spent eleven years in prison, during which time he became a revolutionary political theorist and organizer. For more information on the book,...
Have Black lives ever mattered?
Mumia Abu-Jamal's book, Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? addresses the long history of racist police and state repression. It offers contemporary organizers crucial historical insights and lessons, as well as advice, on organizing to stop the war on Black America...
Hammer and hoe: Alabama communists during the Great Depression
Robin D.G. Kelley first published Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression in 1990, although he began working on it as a doctoral student in the 1980s. In the book, Kelley narrates the emergence of the communist movement in Alabama during the...
The state and revolution
Lenin wrote The State and Revolution between August and October of 1917, while he was living and organizing underground, hiding from the police. He pushed through these difficult circumstances to write the pamphlet not in order to intervene in the revolutionary...
PSL Course: Marx’s “Capital” (vol. 1)
Course description: The first volume of Karl Marx's Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, which was originally published in 1867, remains a key resource for understanding the logic of capitalism to this day. Marx wrote the book--which was the only volume of...