Colonial State of Mind
Over the last 150 years, The Russian, British, Soviet, and American empires have all tried to conquer and subdue this Central Asian mountainous nation
What is Afghanistan?
This revolutionary black radical organization became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s for their free breakfast programs, health clinics, schools, legal aid, and even popularized the term "pig" regarding the police
Who was the Black Panther Party?
This Western European country elected a popular front left wing government in 1936, only to see General Francisco Franco overthrow it 4 months later
What is Spain?
Howard Zinn's towering classic on American history told from the perspective of various marginalized groups
What is A People's History of the US?
From 1956 to 1962, this French North African colony waged a war of independence, and its successful liberation would bring about the collapse of the 4th French Republic
What is Algeria?
Many activists have scornfully called this political party "the graveyard of social movements"
What is the Democratic Party?
Most famous in its original German title, Marx died before finishing this multi-volume series on the nature of political economy in industrial Europe
What is Capital: A Critique of Political Economy /Das Kapital
In 1920, this nation became the first European nation to decriminalize homosexuality; it would be re-criminalized, however, in 1936 under a different leader
What is the Soviet Union?
Supporters of this nation's liberation often chant "from the river to the sea, __________"
What is "Palestine will be free"?
In 1918, this political party put forth a presidential candidate from the confines of a prison cell - and still won over a million votes
What is the Socialist Party?
Anarcho-communists affectionately refer to this book as "the bread book"
What is Conquest of Bread?
Tiocfaidh ár lá, or "our day will come", is the slogan of this famed revolutionary socialist paramilitary organization
What is the Irish Republican Army?
In 1931, this political party became an overnight sensation in the black South for being the first major organization to come to the legal aid of the Scottsboro Nine, nine young black boys falsely accused of raping two white women on a train
What was the Communist Party?
In 1948, the CIA spent $250 million in 2020 dollars on targeted propaganda during a parliamentary general election in this Southern European country to ensure that the Communist Party wouldn't win a majority
What is Italy?
W.E.B. DuBois' phenomenal analysis in this book went overlooked for almost 50 years by historians because it directly rejected traditional Southern rhetoric about Reconstruction
What is "Black Reconstruction in America"?
This political party, founded in 1885, was the first modern anti-colonial national liberation party formed in the British Empire in Africa or Asia, and is still one of the two major political parties of this Asian former colony
What is the Indian National Congress?
Karl Marx wrote a letter to congratulate the leader of this political party for winning re-election and defeating "a holy crusade of property against labor"
What is the Republican Party?
In 1988, the ruling conservative party of this Central American nation stopped counting presidential votes partway through election night once they realized they were losing; when they began again, they mysteriously won by a decisive margin!
What is Mexico?
CLR James wrote this well-regarded history of the Haitian Revolution, bringing Marxist analysis to the Black liberation struggle
What is "The Black Jacobins"?