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Cuba and Angola
Fighting for Africa’s Freedom and Our Own
By Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Nelson Mandela, and others
Price:$12
Also available in Spanish
Twenty-five years ago, in March 1988, the army of South Africa’s apartheid regime was dealt a crushing defeat by Cuban, Angolan, and Namibian combatants at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola. That triumph, South Africa’s future president Nelson Mandela proclaimed, marked “a milestone in the history of the struggle for southern African liberation.”
With the victory at Cuito Cuanavale, Angola’s sovereignty was secured. Namibia’s independence was won. The deepening revolutionary struggle in South Africa received a powerful boost. And the Cuban Revolution too was strengthened.
Between 1975 and 1991 some 425,000 Cubans volunteered for duty in Angola in response to requests from the Angolan government to help defend the newly independent country against multiple invasions by South Africa’s white-supremacist regime, backed by its allies in Washington and elsewhere.
Here this history is told by those who lived it and made it.
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A companion volume to
Women in Cuba:
The Making of a Revolution
Within the Revolution
From Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Army to the Birth of the Federation of Cuban Women
By Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos, and Yolanda Ferrer
Price: $20
Also available in Spanish
As working people in Cuba fought to bring down a bloody tyranny in the 1950s, the unprecedented integration of women in the ranks and leadership of the struggle was not an aberration. It was inseparably intertwined with the proletarian course of the leadership of the Cuban Revolution from the start.
Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution is the story of that revolution and how it transformed the women and men who made it. The book was introduced at the 2012 Havana International Book Fair by a panel of speakers from Cuba and the US. Women and Revolution: The Living Example of the Cuban Revolution contains the presentations from that event.
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Thomas Sankara Speaks
The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87
By Thomas Sankara
Price: $24
Also available in French
We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions
Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87
By Thomas Sankara
Price: $10
Also available in French, Spanish, Farsi
Under Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers, women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink wells, plant trees, build dams, erect housing; to combat the oppression of women and transform exploitative relations on the land; to free themselves from the imperialist yoke and solidarize with others engaged in that fight internationally.
Both collections of Sankara's speeches include an introduction by editor Michel Prairie and preface by Mary-Alice Waters, maps, photos, charts, and index.
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Malcolm X, Black Liberation,
and the Road to Workers Power
By Jack Barnes
Price: $20
Also available in Spanish, French, Greek, Farsi
“Don’t start with Blacks as an oppressed nationality. Start with the vanguard place and weight of workers who are Black in broad proletarian-led social and political struggles in the United States. From the Civil War to today, the record is mind-boggling. It’s the strength and resilience, not the oppression, that bowls you over.”—Jack Barnes
Includes four photo sections and over 130 photographs and drawings, author’s introduction, index, glossary.
“… A powerful and persuasive political testimony, enhanced with black-and-white photographs, a glossary, and an index.”—Midwest Book Review
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NOW AVAILABLE IN FRENCH
The Cuban Five
Who they are
Why they were framed
Why they should be free
From the pages of the Militant
Price: $5
A selection of articles from the Militant newspaper on the fight to free Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, and René González. The Cuban Five, as they have become known around the world, were convicted by the U.S. government on fabricated “conspiracy” charges and handed draconian sentences. They have remained in prison since their arrest in FBI raids in 1998.
Their “crime”? Monitoring the plans for action by violent counterrevolutionary Cuban-American groups that have a 50-year record of deadly attacks on Cuba and supporters of the Cuban Revolution—groups that operate from U.S. territory with Washington’s complicity.
New edition includes timeline along with new articles, interviews, and speeches reprinted from the Militant. Also available in Spanish and French
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New International no. 12
Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun
By Jack Barnes
Price: $12
Also available in:
French,
Spanish, Farsi,
Swedish,
Greek,
Arabic
Today’s accelerating global capitalist crisis—the opening stages of what will be decades of economic, financial, and social convulsions and class battles—accompanies a continuation of the most far-reaching shift in Washington’s military policy and organization since the U.S. buildup toward World War II. Class-struggle-minded working people must face this historic turning point for imperialism, and draw satisfaction from being “in their face” as we chart a revolutionary course to confront it.
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The Teamster Series
By Farrell Dobbs
Price: Each volume $19
Complete 4-volume set: $65
Teamster Rebellion
This is the first in a four-volume series on the class-struggle leadership of the strikes and organizing drives that transformed the Teamsters union in much of the Midwest into a fighting social movement and pointed the road toward independent labor political action. Also available in Spanish, French,
Swedish,
Farsi.
Teamster Power
Volume 2 describes the growth and consolidation of the Teamsters union in Minneapolis and its class-struggle leadership, and the 11-state over-the-road organizing campaign that brought union power for the first time to much of the Midwest. Also available in
Spanish.
Teamster Politics
Volume 3 tells how rank-and-file Teamsters led the fight against antiunion frame-ups and assaults by fascist goons; the battle for jobs for all; and efforts to advance independent labor political action.
Teamster Bureaucracy
Volume 4 explains how the rank-and-file Teamsters leadership organized to oppose World War II, racism, and government efforts—backed by the international officialdom of the AFL, the CIO, and the Teamsters—to gag class-struggle-minded workers.
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Fidel Castro’s day-by-day account of the final months of the revolutionary war in Cuba to bring down the US-backed Batista dictatorship. Tells how worker and peasant combatants defeated the “final offensive” by an army more than 30 times their size, launched a 147-day counteroffensive to extend the revolutionary struggle to the rest of the country, and took power January 1, 1959. Includes communiqués, letters, maps, and photos. Two volumes.
Published by Cuba’s Council of State. Distributed by Pathfinder.
Get both books for $50. Click here for details.
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