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Spain In Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild | Summary & Analysis Preview: Adam Hochschild's Spain In Our Hearts is an account of the involvement of US citizens in the Spanish Civil War. It focuses on the experiences of a number of individual volunteers and reporters and provides a broad view of how the war affected Spain, the United States, and Europe. The Spanish Civil War began as a conflict between a democratically elected left-wing government, the...
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The history of anarchist-Marxist relations is usually told as a history of factionalism and division. These essays, based on original research and written especially for this collection, reveal some of the enduring sores in the revolutionary socialist movement in order to explore the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical...
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This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the interest in cross-border connections has generated much innovative literature in the last decade. It presents and extends up-to-date research into several dynamic historiographic fields, and especially the history of the anarchist and syndicalist movements and the notions of transnational militancy and informal political networks.
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En 2009 el filósofo esloveno Slavoj Žižek congregó a un renombrado elenco de académicos e intelectuales para discutir en torno a la persistente relevancia del comunismo en los momentos actuales. Para sor-presa general, los debates atrajeron un nutrido público.
No paró ahí la cosa; desde entonces vienen celebrándose cada dos años las conferencias internacionales sobre "La idea de comunismo" en distintos lugares del globo. Tras la celebrada...
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Esta antología de Constituciones cubanas comprende las primeras constituciones con que las fuerzas independentistas conformaron un código legal y un marco de actuación jurídico desde el que legitimar sus posiciones. Las tres primeras de estas constituciones se ocupan de preparar un espacio de poder y legalidad que permita establecer tratados y separar el poder judicial del resto de los poderes.
Es a partir de la Constitución de la Yaya que los...
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La Constitución de la República de Cuba de 1992 es básicamente la misma de 1976. Solo agrega algunas modificaciones y adiciones, como el capítulo de la extranjería, del estado de emergencia y de la división política administrativa.
En ella se sostiene, tras la caída o desmoronamiento del sistema socialista europeo, la irreversibilidad del carácter socialista de la República de Cuba.
La Constitución de la República de Cuba de 1992 es una...
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Technology, politics and entertainment have, merged to the point of confusion. Politactics, is a book from the Everyday Analysis collective, is a set of conversations about how to sift through this organized, but disordered mess and create a framework which could enact change against political and corporate hegemony. An internationalist collection of essays, articles, responses and letters, the book argues that we need a 'politactical' mindset in...
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In the summer of 2020, the International Marxist-Humanist Organization held its convention with the aim to develop an alternative to capitalism. Grounded in the unique philosophy and practice of Marxist-Humanism, its international members gathered to discuss race, class, gender, environmental destruction and revolution in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter uprisings. Collected in this book are those reports from a diverse group...
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The "Yellow Book" is the annual fruit of research conducted by the World Socialism Research Center attached to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which is a selection of cutting-edge and representative research articles dealing with the issues of world socialism and the world socialist movement as its driving force. Following up the newest developments, changes and transformations of our era, the global predicament resulting from the still ongoing...
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Gerardo Ambriz Arévalo y Ricardo Bernal Lugo coordinan este libro en el que presentan un conjunto de textos que, desde distintos puntos de vista, muchas veces opuestos entre sí, intentan repensar una articulación posible entre el Estado, el derecho y las nuevas formas de emancipación que se oponen a la dictadura del capital. En la primera parte el lector encontrará una serie de reflexiones cuya intención es desvincular los conceptos de Estado...
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La crisis terminal del franquismo estuvo marcada por la dialéctica entre la movilización social impulsada por la oposición de izquierdas para forzar la «ruptura democrática» y los intentos de parte del personal del régimen de llevar a cabo una «reforma» más o menos limitada. Para contribuir a un mejor conocimiento de una realidad sobre el cambio político en España, el presente volumen recoge aportaciones de distinto carácter sobre las...
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The long-awaited Volume 2 of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction-West Germany's most notorious urban guerillas-covers the period immediately following the organization's near-total decimation in 1977. This work includes the details of the guerilla's operations, and its communiqués and texts, from 1978 up until the 1984 offensive.
This was a period of regrouping and reorientation for the RAF, with its previous focus on...
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Projectiles for the People starts its story in the days following World War II, showing how American imperialism worked hand in glove with the old pro-Nazi ruling class, shaping West Germany into an authoritarian anti-communist bulwark and launching pad for its aggression against Third World nations. The volume also recounts the opposition that emerged from intellectuals, communists, independent leftists, and then-explosively-the radical student movement...
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From Socrates to Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned philosophers have marked the history of thought and changed how we view power and politics. From his solitary jail cell, Abdullah Öcalan has penned daringly innovative works that give profuse evidence of his position as one of the most significant thinkers of our day. His prison writings have mobilized tens of thousands of people and inspired a revolution in the making in Rojava, northern Syria, while...
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'The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get rid of it'. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed at the start of Cliff Slaughter's latest book. Recognising the importance of István Mészáros's analysis - in Beyond Capital (1995) and other books - of the historic, 'structural crisis' that has taken capital into its stage of 'destructive self-reproduction', Against Capital focuses on the crucial question of agency....
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Social democracy is clearly at a dead end, but is it actually dead? The Three Worlds of Social Democracy explores the historical and theoretical path of the social democratic parties from their inception to the present day through a series of essays by high-profile experts in the field.
Looking at the international picture, the book highlights the movement's spread to the postcolonial and post-communist countries of the Global East and South...
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The national protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, made clear what many already knew to be true: policing-in all its iterations-must be abolished. The nationwide uprisings saw the burning of the third precinct in Minneapolis, the creation of autonomous zones in Seattle, and the toppling of statues and memorials to white supremacists, colonizers, and confederates. How We Stay Free chronicles the protests in the city...
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Capitalism is stumbling, empire is faltering, and the planet is thawing. Yet, many people are still grasping to understand these multiple crises and to find a way forward to a just future. Into the breach come the essential insights of Capital and Its Discontents, which cut through the gristle to get to the heart of the matter about the nature of capitalism and imperialism, capitalism's vulnerabilities at this conjuncture-and what can we do to hasten...
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This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction-defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate-and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity,...
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