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“This careful, informed, judicious study is an invaluable guide to understanding Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine, and most crucially, how we can act to help bring this terrible tragedy to an end.” —Noam Chomsky
WAR IN UKRAINE: MAKING SENSE OF A SENSELESS CONFLICT
MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES
Preface by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL
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A Present for Protestors. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/a-present-for-protestors
An all-purpose guide and toolbox for creative action packed with contemporary and historical case studies and best practices from dozens of seasoned activists and artists around the world.
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Savings That Are Subversive. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/the-business-secrets-of-drug-dealing-1608416
Get a deep discount on the thrilling, incendiary Business Secrets of Drug Dealing by Matt Taibbi and Reggie Harris
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Banned for nearly 50 years - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/banned-for-nearly-50-years-1608408
HOW TO READ DONALD DUCK
Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattleart
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Decolonize with Deep Discounts - https://www.orbooks.com/decolonize-that/
OR Books is proud to announce a new series: Decolonize That! Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas. From Warscapes magazine editor Bhakti Shringarpure, these are inventive, page-turning polemics of resistance and creative regeneration.
How Trumped Up Charges of Anti-Semitism Destroyed Jeremy Corbyn -https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/weaponising-anti-semitism/
Meticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lobby deployed charges of anti-Semitism to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for power as leader of the Labour Party.
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EXAMINING THE CARCERAL COSTS OF CAR USE AND OWNERSHIP.
American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a “freedom machine,” consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the cross-roads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility– the American debt economy and the carceral state.
This book investigates that paradox ...
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“Every public library in the United States should order a copy.”
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The Kraken Wakes. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/the-kraken-awakes
AMERICAN MONSTROSITY: DONALD TRUMP: HOW WE GOT HIM • HOW WE STOP HIM
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NATHAN J. ROBINSON
“Lucid and provocative. ” —Noam Chomsky
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A controversial new book by Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, sets out the urgency of negotiating a settlement to the Ukraine conflict now.
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Imprisoned by US imperialism.
Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United States. But this account, by the itinerant, effervescent and highly original journalist Belén Fernández, offers a different and wholly original take.
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TRUTH WILL PREVAIL: WHY I WAS CONDEMNED
by LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA
“That’s my man right there . . . love this guy . . .T he most popular politician on earth.” —Barack Obama (2009)
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Marking the death of an extraordinary historian, activist and comrade, get Between Catastrophe and Revolution: Essays in Honor of Mike Davis free as an e-book for the next 24 hours.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/the-revolution-will-not-be-litigated-1608260
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE LITIGATED
Edited by KATIE REDFORD and MARK GEVISSER
Here, 25 of the world’s most accomplished movement lawyers and activists become storytellers, reflecting on their experiences at the frontlines of some of the most significant struggles of our time. Their stories capture the complex, and often-awkward dance between legal reform and social change in a highly readable and original anthology.
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CHOMSKY AND ME: A MEMOIR by BEV BOISSEAU STOHL
Bev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her funny and charming account of those years, working next to a man described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.”
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A CREATURE WANTING FORM by LUKE O'NEIL is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life.
Filtered through the lens of a writer and characters who are horrified by the earth’s looming mortality, and their own, but still compelled to carry on, O’Neil interweaves science fiction, allegory, fables, poetry, and reflections on the deeply grounded indignities of modern life.
- https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/the-new-presidency-as-seen-from-hell-world-1608244
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Can places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Museum of Natural History, packed with artefacts plundered from empires around the world, escape their racist, colonial past? In this spirited, page-turning polemic, Shimrit Lee punctures the fantasies peddled by today’s museums, scrutinizing their true meaning. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/palaces-of-plunder-1608236
Causing good trouble - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/beauty-is-in-the-street-1608228
A Prisoner Speaks Out. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/a-week-of-special-offers-on-books-by-and-about-julian-assange-1608216
TWO VITAL BOOKS ON LIFE IN IRAN
As protests sweep Iran, two superb books look at the history and politics of a country where resistance and repression are facing off.
https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/inside-iran-1608212
This week, please join us at The People's Forum to celebrate the launch of THE WORK OF LIVING! Author Maximillian Alvarez will sit down with Alex Press and Luis Feliz Leon to discuss covering worker struggles during COVID. Details and registration at the link below.
📅 Wednesday, October 5th
⏰ 6:30PM ET
📍 In-person and online
Join us for an in-person book talk with Maximillian Alvarez on his latest book, The Work of Living. Comprised of interviews Alvarez conducted at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Work of Living captures a critical moment in the lives of working people nationwide: from Kyle, a sheet metal work...
💥 Happy publication day to THE DEAD CENTER! 💥
In his timely new book, writer Luke Savage brilliantly skewers centrist liberalism and its pathologies, tackling Joe Biden's flailing administration, the subversion of Bernie Sanders' movement, and much more.
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🎉 POWER CONCEDES NOTHING is OUT NOW! 🎉
With the midterms fast approaching, this must-read book offers an essential roadmap to winning elections, building progressive power, and achieving long-term change.
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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 that mobilized a record-breaking turnout by registering new voters and motivating an electorate...
BLOOD SPLATTERS QUICKLY
The Collected Stories
EDWARD D. WOOD, JR.
“To me, Ed Wood was a crazy genius. Way ahead of his time. Everybody was afraid to do the things that he would do. He was the most prolific writer I’ve ever known. And the fastest. He could write better drunk than most writers could sober.”
—Bernie Bloom, magazine publisher
“[an] incredibly unique book.”
—The LA Times
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A Wonderful Window Onto Work. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/essential-workers-essential-reading-1608112
✨ Happy publication day to THE WORK OF LIVING! ✨
Maximillian Alvarez's stirring new book chronicles the lives of workers at the height of the COVID pandemic, offering a deeply human history of one of the defining events of our time.
Pick up your copy here: bit.ly/WorkOfLiving
In late 2020 and early 2021, at the height of the COVID pandemic, Maximillian Alvarez conducted a series of intimate interviews with workers of all stripes, from all around the US. He talked to them about their lives, their work, and their experiences living through a year when the world itself seem...
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In this highly informative and accessible primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies expertly document the historical and political context of the war in Ukraine, offering a clear-eyed look at the origins of this crisis and how it might be resolved.
Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin ...
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OR Books is a new type of publishing company. It embraces progressive change in politics, culture, and the way we do business.
💥 OPERATION MINDF**K is out now 💥
Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories and mixing deep-dive research, political analysis, and firsthand notes, Robert Guffey’s freewheeling new book journeys into the underbelly of QAnon and insists that we’ve seen it all before.
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In Operation Mindf**k, Robert Guffey argues that this is not as mysterious as QAnon’s anonymous “drops” of cryptic directives seem to be. Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories and mixing deep-dive research, political analysis, and firsthand notes from QAnon’s underbelly...
Che Guevara was born 94 years ago today.
WHO KILLED CHE? recounts the extraordinary life of the world’s most storied revolutionary—and presents an irrefutable case that the CIA was responsible for his murder.
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Paperback: $16/£11 E-book: $10/£7 Print + E-book: $20/£14 FAQs and shipping information About the Book In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights
Filled with stories of struggle and strength, fear and loss, love and rage, THE WORK OF LIVING by MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ is a deeply human history of one of the defining events of the 21st century told by the people who lived it. - https://mailchi.mp/orbooks.com/essential-workers-essential-reading-1607868
“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
Remembering Malcolm X, who was born on this day in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska.
“This complex, moving poem captures both the determined resistance and the fatalism of women trying to get control of their lives in a milieu that doesn’t particularly want them to have any.” — Katha Pollitt introduces a poem from Alissa Quart's THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS in Literary Hub.
Read more from Quart here: bit.ly/Thoughts-Prayers
This week’s leak of the Supreme Court vote to strike down Roe v. Wade decision caused waves of outrage across the land: The 1973 decision provided federal constitutional protections of abortion rig…
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✨🎉 ALWAYS RED LAUNCH PARTY 🎉✨ Many thanks to Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Zarah Sultana MP, and everyone else who joined us last week to celebrate the launch of Len McCluskey’s remarkable new autobiography! Get your copy today: bit.ly/Always-Red
💥 Introducing: ALWAYS RED 💥 As the former general secretary of the UK's most powerful union, Len McCluskey has been on the front lines of every great political battle of our time. Now, he finally reveals all—the bust-ups, betrayals, hopes unleashed, and lies told. Pre-order now for 15% off: bit.ly/Always-Red
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