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#HaymarketBooks book event livestream

"#PalestineInAWorldOnFire highlights the centrality of Palestine in struggles shared across the world: capitalism, imperialism, misogyny, neo-colonialism, racism, and more."

#LalehKhalili hosts the book's editors, historian #IlanPappé & #KatherineNatanel, lecturer in Gender Studies & Exec. Editor @ MERIP

youtube.com/watch?v=8dYP6W0sYQ

#Gaza #oPt #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #PalestineLiberation #decolonialStruggles #books @palestine @bookstodon

"Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial.

Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation.

How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian."

Perfect Victims: Mohammed El-Kurd & Robin D.G. Kelley
youtube.com/live/FXcqfLsraJI

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

Haymarket Books is offering 10 key ebooks free to download, indispensable works of analysis, history, and strategy.

haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-t

#Books #Bookstodon #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #HaymarketBooks #History #Histodons #SocialImpact #SocialJustice @bookstodon @histodons

haymarketbooks.orgTen Free Ebooks for Getting Free “What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis At Haymarket, we believe that books are crucial tools in struggles against racism, imperialism, and capitalism—and for a better world. That’s why we’ve decided to make TEN key ebooks free to download: join us in reading these indispensable works of analysis, history, and strategy. Wherever each of us live, work, and are in community: the time is now to build power and fight back, together. A note for UK readers: Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, and Elite Capture are not available for readers in the UK. For more recommended reading, and to help ensure the future of radical publishing at Haymarket, make sure to browse our holiday sale and pick something for every radical reader on your shopping list! Right now, ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off!

For years I've been curious about the more "revolutionary" aspects of the Left (broadly conceived). What does it mean to "smash the state," or to "de-fund the police," or to seek revolution rather than incrementalism?

I came across this rather thoughtful, intense, and passionate talk on just these questions. I don't know where I stand on all of it, but I find it compelling in many ways and a lot of food for thought.
#revolution #socialism #SmashTheState #HaymarketBooks

youtu.be/ePzYyELJhuE