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  • Building the Commune

    Radical Democracy in Venezuela

    by Geo Maher ...
    Series series Jacobin
    Latin America’s experiments in direct democracySince 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swept the globe, taking shape in the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain, and the anti-austerity protests in Greece. The demands have been varied, but have expressed a consistent commitment to the ideals of radical democracy.Similar experiments began appearing across Latin America twenty-five ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Days of Rage

    America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

    by Bryan Burrough ...
    From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970sThe Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • My Friend the Fanatic

    Travels with a Radical Islamist

    by Sadanand Dhume ...
    A nation once synonymous with tolerance, Indonesia, the fourth-most populated country in the world and its most populous Muslim country, now finds itself in the midst of a profound shift toward radical Islam. Sadanand Dhume, a Princeton-educated Indian atheist with a fondness for literary fiction and an interest in economic development, travels across Indonesia to find out how a society goes from ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Hidden Ancestral Identity of the American Negro

    Why Black Lives Matter?

    by RaDine A America-Harrison ...
    Series Book 1 - Black American Handbook for the Survival thru 21st
    The Hidden Ancestral Identity of the American Negro is the introduction to a series of books for black American people to learn the omitted facts about their Heritage history. The books are intended to give a balanced overview of the true dynamics that is the core foundation of the United States and its relation to the destiny of Negro People of the America's called black Americans today.In order ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Contesting Trade in Central America

    Market Reform and Resistance

    by Rose J. Spalding ...
    In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region’s commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Church in Brazil

    The Politics of Religion

    by Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a point dramatized by the rapid growth of other religious movements in Brazil—particularly Protestant ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945

    Repression during World Upheaval

    by John W. F. Dulles ...
    The Brazilian Communist Party was one of the largest Communist parties in Latin America until its split and dissolution in the 1990s. Although not granted legal status as a political party of Brazil until 1985, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) has been tolerated by that country's regime.Such governmental tolerance of the PCB was not always the case. In the past, the regime of Getúlio Vargas ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Dispersing Power

    Social Movements as Anti-State Forces

    by Raúl Zibechi ...
    Translated by Ramor Ryan ...
    Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes with questions, questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid of capitalism? How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the role of the state and what are the possibilities of changing society through anti-state movements?... the most important practical ... Read more

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  • Environmental Policy Change in Emerging Market Democracies

    Eastern Europe and Latin America Compared

    by Jale Tosun ...
    This book examines environmental policy change in twenty-eight Central and Eastern European and Latin American countries against a background of significant political and economic transformation over the past two decades. Through cross-regional comparison and a multi-methods approach, Jale Tosun investigates changes in the regulation of air, soil, and water pollution, genetically modified corn, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Resisting Brazil's Military Regime

    An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto

    by John W. F. Dulles ...
    Praised by his many admirers as a "courageous and fearless" defender of human rights, Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of the regime of Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas. John W. F. Dulles chronicled Sobral's battles with the Vargas government in Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil": Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945), which ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Family Circle

    The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left

    by Susan Braudy ...
    When Kathy Boudin was arrested in 1981 after a botched armed robbery and shootout that left a Brinks guard and two policemen dead, she ended a decade living underground as part of the radical Weathermen underground; she would spend the next 22 years in Bedford Hills prison. In Family Circle,Boudin’s former classmate Susan Braudy vividly re-creates the radicalization of this intelligent, privileged ... Read more

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  • Havana without Makeup

    Inside the Soul of the City

    by Herman Portocarero, Joaquin Portocarero ...
    Havana without Makeup is the ultimate insider’s view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex facets as seen by few. Its aim is to capture the soul of a city and a society that have evolved on their own terms at the moment before they face inevitable transformations.Opening on the eve of the announcement of reconciliation between the U.S. and Cuba, the book then looks back at the ... Read more

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