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TOO LATE TO AWAKEN ; WHAT LIES AHEAD WHEN THERE IS NO FUTURE
Slavoj Zizek
- Seven Stories Press
- 16 Janvier 2025
- 9781644214190
The "most dangerous philosopher in the West" returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament.
iek''s most urgent and accessible book yet asks us all to imagine that catastrophe is a foregone conclusionso that we can actually save the world.
We hear all the time that we''re moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia''s invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear warfare, is taking place against a backdrop of global warming, ecological breakdown, and widespread social and economic unrest. Protestors and politicians repeatedly call for action, but still we continue to drift towards disaster. We need to do something. But what if the only way for us to prevent catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened-to accept that we''re already five minutes past zero hour? -
An urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic story-telling about the present Iranian revolution from Marjane Satrapi, author of
On September 13th 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the religious police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. The plight of this 22-year-old woman raised a wave of protests that soon spread through the whole country, and crowds adopted the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom." Around the world, these words have been chanted during solidarity rallies.
In this powerful visual collection of graphic novel style essays, Marjane Satrapi has gathered together intense narration by herself and an array of journalists and writers with graphic art perspectives from esteemed collaborators including Coco, a press cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo; Patricia Bolanos, a Spanish illustrator based in Brooklyn; Mana Neyestani, an Iranian cartoonist and illustrator; and Paco Roca, a Spanish comic book artist, Shabnam Adiban, an Iranian illustrator based in Toronto, among others. Together, these are the artists and story-tellers Marjane Satrapi has chosen to tell the story of a major revolution happening in her homeland of Iran today that has inspired support from around the world.
Contributing artists, including four Iranians. Joann Sfar, Coco, Mana Neyastani, Catel, Pascal Rabate, Patricia Bolanos, Paco Roca, Bahareh Akrami, Hippolyte, Shabnam Adiban, Lewis Trondheim, Winshluss, Touka Neyastani, Bee, Deloupy, Nicolar Wild, Hamoun. (Two artists have taken a pen name, Bee and Hamoun.) -
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SUMUD ; A NEW PALESTINIAN READER
Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably
- Seven Stories Press
- 21 Janvier 2025
- 9781644214459
An anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art.
Includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists.
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A inspiring meditation on democracy that explores and;separates the concept of a citizen into various roles, providing a clarifying mission to all who read this call to action and civic participation. In this concise volume, Ralph Nader, our trusted voice on corporate power and civic resistance,;goes right to the most basic taproots of an aspiring democracy--its people and their roles in creating and sustaining community. These roles, including citizen, voter, worker, taxpayer, consumer, and parent, contribute to civic self-respect, and one''s own significance in society. ; As federal judge Learned Hand said in 1944 during a famous brief speech at Central Park, New York City--neither the laws, the courts or other related institutions can be saved without the underlying exercise of the democratic spirit by the people.
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LATIN AMERICA DIARIES ; THE SEQUEL TO THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
Ernesto Che Guevara
- Seven Stories Press
- 16 Janvier 2025
- 9781644211007
b>The journal of a young Argentine''s second trip through Latin America, revealing the emergence of a committed revolutionary now known as "Che."/b>br>br>This sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries includes letters, poetry, and journalism that document young Ernesto Guevara''s second Latin American journey following his graduation from medical school in 1953. It reveals how the young Argentine is transformed into a militant revolutionary, ready to commit himself to the guerrilla struggle Fidel Castro and his companeros are about to launch in Cuba against the dictatorship of General Fulgencio Batista. br>;;;; After traveling through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Central America, Ernesto witnesses the 1954 US-inspired coup in Guatemala, which has a profound effect on his political awareness. He flees to Mexico where he encounters Fidel Castro, marking the beginning of a political partnership that profoundly changes the world and Che himself.br>;;;; Includes a foreword by Alberto Granado, Che''s companion on his first adventures in Latin America on a vintage Norton motorcycle, and features poems written by young Ernesto inspired by his experiences along with facsimiles of pages from his diary.
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The only YA book to tell the story of George Sand and the courageous fight for womens rights in the 19th century.
George Sand was the most popular novelist of the mid-19th century, and the pen name of Amandine Aurore Dupin. Sand wasnt looking for scandal or subterfuge by using a pseudonym, but for freedom to live and to write, which she found by dressing as a man, writing under a mans name, and loving who and how she chose. Her actions were an affront to the prejudices of the 19th century and a formidable lesson in courage.
Young Aurore grew up torn between two women and two worlds: the conventional and narrow bourgeoisie of her paternal grandmother, who raised her in the countryside, and the modest, Parisian environment of her whimsical mother. Refusing to become the stereotype of femininity, she dreams of another world, where she can breathe, uncorseted, away from the strictures of social expectation. She ignores the slander and rumors that follow her, and builds a free woman''s life, deeply respected by friends and contemporaries like Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert and many others. Using her fame as a writer, she fights for womens and workers rights. She is the model of an emancipated woman. -
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A fictionalized biography of the great Polish-German revolutionary and anti-war activist. The only book about Luxemburg for readers 12+.
Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-born German revolutionary emboldened by the necessity of acting against imperialism, colonialism, and militarism. When she was jailed in 1914 for her anti-war speeches, she continued to speak against World War I by writing pamphlets published under a pseudonym. And after her release from prison she continued campaigning for her political causes, co-founding the Communist Party of Germany. Luxemburg was assassinated by the German Freikorps (paramilitary unit), who were sent by the German Chancellor to destroy the left-wing revolt. On the night before her death, she wrote about her belief in the masses and the inevitability of a triumphant revolution.; After her death, Lenin praised her, calling her an eagle of the working class, and her writings and commitment to democracy and internationalism live on.
In this fictionalized biography of the great activist and revolutionary, we see her actions and ideas through the eyes of her faithful companion, Mimi, an alley cat who has a front row view of this astonishing thinker and mover who railed against building walls between countries and people. -
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CHE GUEVARA PRESENTE ; UNA ANTOLOGIA MINIMA
David Deutschmann, Maria Del Carmen Ari Garcia
- Seven Stories Press
- 16 Janvier 2025
- 9781644211410
b>b>Textos seleccionados --discursos, ensayos y cartas-- de uno de los guerrilleros, teóricos y organizadores politicos mas reconocidos, Che Guevara./b>/b>br>br>Ampliamente venerado como un verdadero revolucionario, esta colección de textos de Ernesto "Che" Guevara resalta sus principios politicos y praxis en la lucha contra el capitalismo y el imperialismo estadounidense. Discursos incisivos, ensayos criticos, y cartas personales no solo sirven como un resumen del movimiento revolucionario cubano, sino que también analizan la importancia de practicar solidaridad internacional, reflexionar sobre la resistencia violenta y explicar los peligrosos fracasos del capitalismo.br> Acompanado por una extensiva bibliografia de la escritura de Guevara, una cronologia de su vida y un amplio glosario de individuos, organizaciones, y publicaciones, el Che Guevara Presente provee conocimiento del contexto histórico, politico y cultural que llevo a la radicalización de Guevara. De sus discursos mas famosos tales como "Crear dos, tres, muchos Vietnam" a sus intimas cartas personales dirigidas a camaradas alrededor del mundo y a sus propios hijos, este libro extiende el legado del Che y pinta un retrato deslumbrante de un revolucionario luchando por un mundo mejor.
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JANUSZ KORCZAK ; NO TO DENYING THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
Isabelle Collombat
- Seven Stories Press
- 16 Janvier 2025
- 9781644213056
A portrait of the famously heroic doctor, writer, and director of an orphanage who left a powerful legacy of creating a forum for and respecting the dignity of children's lives.
In 1942 Janusz Korczak accompanied children of the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp. That brave act became a lasting symbol of respect for the dignity of children. Korczak was the pen name of Polish doctor, Henry Goldszmit, an author of books for and about children including -
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Ukrainian writer and military serviceman Artem Chekh's book was the winner of the 2021 BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year Award and is a gritty and bald bildungsroman, a lilting picaresque of a life lived in the shadow of someone else's war.
When Tymofiy is five years old, his small family in Cherkasy, Ukraine grows by one. Not with the birth of a baby sister or brother, but with the appearance of Felixmentor and tormentor, enemy and friendTymofiy's grandmother's sometime-boyfriend. "Who are you?" Felix screams in the depths of a confused and drunken rage at all who cross his path, his memories of the Soviet-Afghan war clouding his eyes and senses. "Who are you?" Tymofiy asks himself as he drifts through the streets of his hometown, searching for love and protection, for a better, happier way of life.
A gritty, realist depiction of Ukraine and the post Soviet world, this book offers an affecting yet honest look into the life of someone suffering from PTSD. It is a story of growing up without much hope for a better future, and yet intense moments of connection and kindness persist. Just when things begin to seem insurmountably dark, a friendship begins, a kind word is said, or a hand reaches out and opens the curtains, letting in a little light. -
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TALKING ABOUT ABOLITION ; A POLICE-FREE WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Sonali Kolhatkar
- Seven Stories Press
- 14 Janvier 2025
- 9781644214350
Powerful interviews with scholars, organizers, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prison.
Award-winning journalist Kolhatkar presents a visionary outlook for a future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice.
Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream discourse. In -
In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural extension . . . of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."
In his stirring conclusion Chomsky argues, "We have today the technical and material resources to meet man's animal needs.We have not developed the cultural and moral resources or the democratic forms of social organization that make possible the humane and rational use of our material wealth and power.
Conceivably, the classical liberal ideals as expressed and developed in their libertarian socialist form are achievable. But if so, only by a popular revolutionary movement, rooted in wide strata of the population and committed to the elimination of repressive and authoritarian institutions, state and private. To create such a movement is a challenge we face and must meet if there is to be an escape from contemporary barbarism." -
TITANS OF CAPITAL ; HOW CONCENTRATED WEALTH THREATENS HUMANITY
Peter Phillips
- Seven Stories Press
- 17 Septembre 2024
- 9781644214336
A fascinating examination of the rapid concentration of global capital, with chapters that focus on China and Russia.
Explores how fewer and larger investment companies now manage the excess financial wealth of the world's 40 million richest people, to the detriment of everyone else and the global environment.
Political sociologist Peter Phillips examines the global economy to demonstrate how networks of wealthy individuals have evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic--and how the financial investments of transnational elites threaten human rights and the future of the planet. Focusing on private capital investments, military spending, and the propaganda machine, he poses three key research questions:;
Private capital investments serve as the primary operating funds for international arms sales, private prisons, and other socially negative activities. These investments fuel the continued use of carbon-based energy leading to amplified global warming and climate change.Military spending is a critical component of continued wealth concentration and political power in the world. Spending on arms and intelligence is a required aspect of maintaining global power and control.; Dealing with Russia, China, Iran and other "rogue" states is a continuing agenda for agents of the world power elites.Propaganda machines in Western capitalist governments serve to protect elite wealth by promoting military conflicts to open new regions for economic investment.
Phillips warns that while continued concentration of global capital increases the profits enjoyed by the global economy's "Titans,", it also increases global inequality, starvation, and civil unrest, threatening the lives of the hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty. It is imperative to ask how we can reverse the concentration of Titan wealth and revitalize grassroots democracy unbridled by extreme wealth. Identifying 117 global Titans by name and exposing the networks and interests that unite them provides readers opposed to militarism and committed to economic equality with crucial tools to directly engage the power elite who endanger life on earth.
