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1) Forward to the Past (Echoes of June 12 and M. K. O. Abiola as Pivots in Nigeria's Developing Demo
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FORWARD TO THE PAST: Echoes of June 12 and MKO Abiola as pivots in Nigeria's developing democracy' highlights the events leading to one of the biggest landmarks in Nigeria's political development. The June 12 1993 presidential election and the events following its annulment by the Ibrahim Babangida-led military junta remain significantly relevant in our narrative. Pivotal to the political trajectory is the role of MKO Abiola as the symbol of the struggles...
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From the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics, an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future
Today more than ever, warnings to fear immigrants and people of color bombard us incessantly. Quite simply, the Right's fundamental strategy has been to divide and distract while rigging the rules to benefit the superrich. No more. It's time to reject...
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Victor Paulino is the name of the protagonist of the story herein, and I am he in real life. In a way this book turns somewhat like an auto-biography. All things written here actually happened in real life, more specifically-in my life. The tale only started when Victor Paulino ran for president. It is a fiction because I did not really run for president, nor do I have any intention even in my wildest dreams of running to lead our country. I am...
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"Winner of the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association" Daniel Schlozman is assistant professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.
Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as...
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Ahmed Ouyahia a grimpé rapidement les échelons du pouvoir, atteignant presque le sommet, avant de connaître une descente précipitée. Depuis la révolte de février 2019, il est en chute libre, cloîtré et en attente d'un meilleur avenir, loin de la lumière du jour.
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Chroniqueur de presse, traducteur et auteur, Slemnia Bendaoud est une plume très critique dont l'intérêt est chevillé à la cause nationale. Il dresse...
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The former special assistant for legislative affairs to President Clinton, president of the American Constitution Society, and author of the "damn fine" (Elle) Under the Bus shows how the left can undo the right's damage and take the country back
Despite representing the beliefs of a minority of the American public on many issues, conservatives are in power not just in Washington, DC, but also in state capitals and courtrooms across the country....
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*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2013*
From the pens of major figures of the anti-austerity movement, comes the first radical, collective manifesto of the new decade.
From participatory democracy to media reform, from direct action to communal living, What Are We Fighting For is a bold look at alternatives to the economic, social and political travesty of contemporary capitalism. Chapters from Owen Jones, David Graeber, John...
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This is a collection of Marxist/Communist Theory written by Paul Haedo. This theory primarily covers the Transitionary Socialist State, how it would look like, how it would operate, and how it will help lay the groundwork and foundation towards Communism for the country of The United States of America.The successful liberation of the Proletariat, from the necessity of having to sell their labor power for subsistence wages, the establishment of a massive...
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* Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015*
Greece's recent political turmoil captured the imagination of the left across Europe. Elected in January 2015 under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras, the radical Syriza party sought to challenge the European economic status-quo and secure a better future for the Greek people. The fierce confrontation with Greece's creditors which followed reverberated around the world.
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From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at one of the most controversial and influential civil rights movements of our time.
Nights in Tents is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old middle-class musician encountered when she abandoned a pleasantly predictable life on her pastoral, off-grid home nestled in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State to run off with the Occupy Movement.
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Incumbents enjoy many advantages when they seek reelection, but their
distinct disadvantages (such as not fulfilling promises or staying
within the status quo) are ripe weaknesses for opposing candidates to
knock them down. Studying the US's Barack Obama, Ukraine's Volodymyr
Zelensky, and France's Emmanuel Macron, among many other candidates,
political strategist Louis Perron, PhD, describes tactics to assess the
strength of the incumbent, the...
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The November 2020 US election was arguably the most consequential since the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln-and grassroots leaders and organizers played crucial roles in the contention for the presidency and control of both houses of Congress.
Power Concedes Nothing tells the stories behind a victory that won both the White House and the Senate and powered progressive candidates to new levels of influence. It describes the on-the-ground efforts...
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Kevin Phillips is a writer and political commentator. He is the author of fifteen books, including, most recently, 1775, Bad Money, American Theocracy, and American Dynasty.
One of the most important and controversial books in modern American politics, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) explained how Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968-and why the Republicans would go on to dominate presidential politics for the next quarter century....
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"In an original and compelling argument, Thomas McGarity shows how adding populists to the Republican's traditional base of free market ideologues and establishment Republicans allowed Trump to come dangerously close to achieving his goal of demolishing the programs that Congress put in place over the course of many decades to protect consumers, workers, communities, children, and the environment. The book also offers a blueprint for rebuilding the...
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