Reading List

"From darkness to light, from battle to books, from sadness to joy." Soviet pro-literacy poster, 1921.




Books 

Fascism and Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney 
                                         



Unequal Development by Samir Amin


Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa
by Maximilian Forte



Patriots, Traitors, and Empires: The Story of Korea's
Struggle For Freedom by Stephen Gowans















Washington's Long War on Syria by Stephen Gowans







Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy
to Useful Imperial Fiction by Robin Philpot


Against Empire by Michael Parenti


Karl Marx
  • The Communist Manifesto
  • Capital Vol. I-III
  • Critique of the Gotha Programme
  • A Contribution To The Critique Of Political Economy
Fredrich Engels
  • Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State
  • Anti-Dühring
  • Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 

V.I. Lenin 
  • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
  • "Left Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder
  • Lenin on the National and Colonial Questions: Three Articles (a collection of three articles by Lenin)
  • What is to Be Done?
  • Lenin Collected Works: Vol. 21
J.V. Stalin
  • Marxism and the National Question
  • The Foundations of Leninism 

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