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February 7, 2019“I still call Lula president because he was condemned by a Brazilian kangaroo Supreme Court justice and forced from office.“ – Ken Silverstein on LULA DA SILVA'S forthcoming manifesto, TRUTH WILL PREVAIL (WHY I WAS CONDEMNED) , in Washington Babylon February 5, 2019“Roma is a cinematic triumph. Can it teach Trump’s America the value of compassion?“ – ARIEL DORFMAN, author of How to Read Donald Duck (Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic), in The Guardian February 1, 2019“There's nothing like a good migrant scapegoat to detract public attention from elite pillaging of the country and other unpleasantries.“ – BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ, author of our forthcoming HOMELAND (Finding My Way from Lebanon to Honduras and Not Getting Killed in the Process), in Aljazeera January 25, 2019“The tragic history of U.S. military interventions in Latin America in the last decades... is one of the causes of why the world is in such bad shape right now.” – WOLFGANG KALECK, author of our forthcoming Law Versus Power: Our Global Fight for Human Rights, on Democracy Now! January 14, 2019“The US government deliberately made the desert deadly for migrants...” - NATASCHA UHLMANN, author of our forthcoming Blood in Our Name: The Case for Abolishing ICE, in The Guardian
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New Titles from OR Books
Homeland
(Finding My Way from Lebanon to Honduras and Not Getting Killed in the Process)
BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ
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Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikstan, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world. More
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People Get Ready!
Preparing for a Corbyn Government
CHRISTINE BERRY and JOE GUINAN
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Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour stands on the brink of power, promising a fundamental re-ordering of British politics. But what, in practice, will this entail? How can a radical government stand up to an establishment that is hostile to any significant redistribution of wealth and power? People Get Ready! dives into the nitty gritty of what’s needed to bring about transformative change. More
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Lawyers for the Left
In the Courts, in the Streets and on the Air
MICHAEL STEVEN SMITH
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Lawyers regularly take the lead in polls as the most unpopular of all professions, ahead, even, of bankers and journalists. But the lawyers featured in this book are different. The stories they tell and the cases they fought are admirable and often inspiring. More
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Dream or Nightmare
Reimagining Politics in an Age of Fantasy
STEPHEN DUNCOMBE
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Dream or Nightmare is a book of left wing strategy like no other: It proposes that, to compete with the right, progressives cannot depend on reason and hard fact. They must also deploy drama in the battle of ideas. More
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The Hidden History of the Balfour Declaration
SAHAR HUNEIDI
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The Balfour Declaration was to be critical in determining the history of the Middle East, from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 to the present day. And yet, despite its importance, its true origins remain obscure. More
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A New Hope for Mexico
Saying No to Corruption, Violence, and Trump’s Wall
ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador will become the next President of Mexico. AMLO, a progressive politician often compared to Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, participated previously in the 2006 and 2012 Mexican presidential elections. His decisive victory in the 2018 election seems likely to be related to the reaction of his fellow countrymen to the election of another outspoken politician, Donald Trump. More
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The Buddha in Jail
Restoring Lives, Finding Hope and Freedom
CUONG LU
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In these short vignettes, Buddhist teacher Cuong Lu shares his insight into the prisoner’s mindset, something with implications for us all, whether or not we are in a conventional jail. More
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Pride
Photographs After Stonewall
FRED W. McDARRAH
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Fred W. McDarrah was the ultimate chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in the 1960s and 70s, and therefore of a signal moment in gay culture when he captured the community around the Stonewall uprising fifty years ago. More
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Truth Will Prevail
Why I Was Condemned
LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA
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One of the great populist leaders of the left, Lula—together with Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Andrés Manuel López Obrador—reignited a worldwide movement of progressives. Now he sits in prison, convicted of “passive corruption.” More
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#AgainstTrump
Notes from Year One
JEFFREY C. ISAAC
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In this collection of essays, Jeffrey C. Isaac argues that the threat posed to liberal democracy by Trump warrants a strong democratic response, articulating a politics that bridges the gap between liberalism and leftism. More
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The Enchanted Prince
ROBERT COOVER
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Literary grandmaster Robert Coover has long been obsessed with myth, decay, sex and narrative, time and technology: and these themes come together in this short, dark fable that centers around the once-grand, now-aged Princess. More
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Law Versus Power
Our Global Fight for Human Rights
WOLFGANG KALECK
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Wolfgang Kaleck, best known as Edward Snowden’s lawyer, is a human rights activist extraordinaire. For more than two decades, he has travelled the world to fight alongside those suffering injustice at the hands of powerful players. More
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Victory
How Pennsylvania Beat Gerrymandering and How Other States Can Do the Same
JAMES B. LIEBER
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Based on in-depth interviews with the people involved, this is the story of how a few dedicated voters took up the issue of disenfranchisement and won—and how activists around the country can do the same. More
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Strongmen
Putin • Erdoğan • Duterte • Trump • Modi
Edited by VIJAY PRASHAD
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In this energetic, focused book, a group of five accomplished writers—Eve Ensler, Danish Husain, Burhan Sönmez, Lara Vapnyar, and Ninotchka Rosca—confronts five would-be dictators. More
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#Charlottesville
White Supremacy, Populism, and Resistance
Edited by CHRIS HOWARD-WOODS, COLIN LAIDLEY, and MARYAM OMIDI
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When white nationalists and their supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators in the college town of Charlottesville over the removal of a Confederate statue, resulting in the death of one anti-racist activist and the wounding of thirty-five more, a signal moment in American history was reached. More
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