Revolutionary Study Guide

This is a comprehensive master list full of radical literature, all of which are FREE. Enjoy and share! If you would like to share any resources for me to add please contact me on my insta (@bountayy)

BLACK LIVES MATTER RESOURCES

• linktr.ee/_suprdan_
• Masterlist of bail funds by State
• Ways to help Black Lives Matter

Beginners Guides to Marxism

• What is Marxism all about?
• Basic Marxism-Leninism Study Plan
• Beginners guide to Marxism
• Dialectical Materialism Explained
• The Communist Manifesto
• Debunking Anti Communism
• Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey
• Marxist Leninst Pamphlets
• Marxism vs Liberalism
• Marxist-Leninist Study Guide

Workers World Books

USSR

• Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Albert Syzmanski
• Blackshirts & Reds by Michael Parenti
• ‘Do Planned Economies Work?” by Stephen Gowans
• “From Farm to Factory” by Robert Allen
• 1936 Constitution of the USSR
• “The Russians are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism” by VL Allen
• “Fraud, Famine and Fascism” by Douglas Tottle
• “Understanding Stalin”
• Homosexuality in the USSR
• The works of Stalin
• The works of Lenin
• Stalin and other books of the USSR

China

• “The Battle for China’s Past” by Mobo Gao
• “Monster or Liberator?” by Carlos Martinez
• “Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution”

India

• The Marxist, Vol. XXIII by Ajoy Ghosh
• Nine Decades of the Communist Movement in India by K.N. Ramachandran
• Rise of Communist Movement in Kerala
• “Reading Subaltern Studies” by David Ludden
• “British Raj: The Legacy of Colonialism in India” by H.S Sandu
• “Gender and Colonialism” by Durba Ghosh

Cuba

• 20 Reasons to Support Cuba
• 2002 Cuban Constitution
• The Elected Delegate and the Dissident in Cuba’s Municipal Elections
• Cuba’s Political Succession: From Fidel to Raúl Castro by Mark P. Sullivan
• “Che Guevara – A Symbol of Struggle” by Tony Saunois
• “Guerilla Warfare” by Che Guevara
• Women & The Cuban Revolution, Speeches by Fidel Castro
• 50 Years of Cuban Socialism
• Rainbow Solidarity in defence of Cuba by Leslie Feinberg
• Cuba: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism [documentary]

DPRK

• “Tourist who took camera inside North Korea shocked by ‘ordinary’ lives of citizens”
• “Anti-DPRK Propaganda War – a Cavalcade of Comedy” by Red Youth
• Imperialism and the Interview: The Racist Dehumanisation of North Korea by Jakob Pettersson

Mexico

• “Mexico’s Unfinished Symphony: The Zapatista Movement” by Rodolfo Stavenhagen
• “A Life in the Provinces of the Aztec Empire” by Michael E Smith
• Between Light and Shadow: Marcos’ Last Words
• “Where have all the Marxists gone? Marxism and the historiography of the Mexican Revolution” by Luis F. Ruiz

Burkina Faso

• Thomas Sankara Speaks
• “Burkina Faso: Thomas Sankara’s revolutionary legacy lives on” by Demba Moussa Dembele

Nepal

• “Revolution in Nepal” by Alastair Reith
• “Seeking State Power: The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) by Kiyoko Ogura

Palestine

• PFLP Website
• A Short History of the Colonization of Palestine
• Palestinian Armed Struggle: Means and Ends by Yezid Sayigh
• The communist movement in Palestine 1919‑1949
• The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine by Ghassan Kanafani
• A Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez A. Sayegh
• List of Palestine Resources

Kurdistan

• 8 Key Facts about the PKK
• The New PKK: Unleashing a Social Revolution in Kurdistan
• Other resources on Kurdistan
• A Rare Look Inside the Kurdish Rebel Movement

Vietnam

• Ho Chi Minh – Timeline of events
• Vietnam: The Origins of Revolution
• Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Struggle for Liberation

Algeria

• Algeria’s Bitter Struggle for Freedom
• “Algerian Women in the Liberation Struggle and the Civil War: From Active Participants to Passive Victims?” by Meredeth Turshen
• Algerian War of Independence 1954-62

Congo

• A History of Resistance in the Congo by Herbert Weiss
• The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Katanga: The Congo’s Forgotten Crisis

Ghana

• Nkrumah and Ghana’s Independence Struggle
• “The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah” by Ama Biney
• “Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism” by Kwame Nkrumah

Iraq

• The Iraqi Resistance and the Anti-War Movement
• A History of the Iraqi Communist Party Interview with University of East Anglia’s Johan Franzen
• Iraqi Communist Party Website

Bangladesh

• Bangladesh Liberation War

Pakistan

• ‘Pakistan’s Little-Known Communist Movement’
• The Left in Pakistan: A Brief History

Syria

• Empire Files: Examining the Syria War Chessboard

South Africa

• “The History of South Africa” by Leonard Thompson
• “You Have Struck a Rock: Women and Political Repression in Southern Africa”
• “Resistance, War, and Liberation: Women of Southern Africa”
• List of South African Resources

Black Radical Literature

• “On the Ideology of the Black Panther Party” by Eldridge Cleaver
• “The Black Radical Tradition”
• “Seize The Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party” by Bobby Seale
• In Defence of Self Defence by Huey P Newton
• The Genius of Huey P. Newton
• War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America by Huey P. Newton
• “Revolutionary Suicide” by Huey P Newton
• “The Story of the Black Panther Party”
• “The Black Panther Party: Service to the Peoples Programs”
• “Blood in My Eye” by George L. Jackson
• “The Black Jacobins” by CLR James
• Toward the African Revolution by Frantz Fanon
• “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter Rodney
• “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois
• “In Defence of the Right to Political Secession for the African American Nation”
• The Huey P. Newton Reader
• “Kwame Nkrumah: An Intellectual Biography” by Ama Biney
• “The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon
• Remembering the Real Dragon – an Interview with George Jackson
• “Black Skin White Masks” by Frantz Fanon
• “Ready for Revolution” by Kwame Ture
• “Black Bolshevik” by Harry Haywood
• Malcolm X Autobiography
• “Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition” by Cedric J. Robinson
• “Toward the African Revolution” by Frantz Fanon
• “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther” by Jeffrey Haas

Black Women Literature

• Combahee River Collective Statement
• “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw
• “Women, Race & Class” by Angela Davis
• “The Meaning of Freedom” by Angela Davis
• “Are Prisons Obsolete” by Angela Davis
• “Rape, Racism, and the Myth of the Black Rapist” by Angela Davis
• “Abolition Democracy” by Angela Davis
• “The Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves” by Angela Davis
•  Masterlist of Bell Hooks Resources
• Assata Shakur, An Autobiography
• “I am Your Sister” by Audre Lorde
• “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman” by Claudia Jones
• “No One Ever Asks What a Man’s Role in the Revolution Is” Gender Politics and Leadership in the Black Panther Party, 1966–71″ by Trayce A. Matthews

Black British Literature

• “Britain is no longer white” by Rob Walters
• “Obi B. Egbuna, C. L. R. James and the Birth of Black Power in Britain: Black Radicalism in Britain 1967–72” by R.E.R Bunce
• “Malcolm X, Smethwick, and the Influence of the African American Freedom Struggle on British Race Relations in the 1960s” by Joe Street

Other Resources

• “The Roots of Lesbian & Gay Oppression: A Marxist View” by Bob McCubbin
• Return to the source – selected speeches by Amilcar Cabral
• “A People’s History of the World” by Chris Harman
• “Open Veins of Latin America” by Eduardo Galeano
• “Decolonization is not a metaphor”
• “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Freire
• A People’s History of Churchillian Madness by Elliot Murphy
• Left Anti Communism: the unkindest cut by Michael Parenti
• Racism in the Communist Movement
• Liberalism: A Counter History by Domenico Losurdo
• The Logic of Lesser Evilism by Andrew Levine
• “Caliban and the Witch” by Silvia Federici
• “Settlers” by J. Sakai
• “Materialism and the Dialectical Method” by Maurice Conforth
• The Gramsci Reader
• “Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies?” by Domenico Losurdo
• Excerpts from Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Criticism of a Black Legend
• “Towards a Critique of the category of Totalitarianism” by Domenico Losurdo
• Decolonisation is Not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang
• “The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire” by John Newsinger
• “Black People in the British Empire: An Introduction” by Peter Fryer
• “The Green Book” by Muammar al-Qaddafi (Gaddafi)

Documentaries/Films/Videos:

• The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) [film]
• Michael Parenti: Capitalism vs Reality (2015)
• The Murder of Fred Hampton

Anti-Capitalist/Marxist-Communist Feminism (The Basics)

• Marx on Gender and the Family: A Summary
• Women and the Struggle for Socialism
• Marxism, Feminism & Women’s Liberation

Literature on Gender

• “Women With Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity” by Afsaneh Najmabadi
• “Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest” by Anne McClintock
• “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir
• “The House that Race Built”
• “The Continuity of Struggle” by Assata Shakur
• Women, Power and Revolution by Kathleen Cleaver
• “War against Women and Women against War” by Nawal El Saadawi
• “Can the Subaltern Speak” by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonising Theory, Practising Solidarity” by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• Feminist and Gender Theories