This is a comprehensive master list full of radical literature, all of which are FREE. Enjoy and share!
Hi I’m Tay! Welcome to my list of free radical resources. (Twitter: @bountay_/Instagram: @bountayy)
The intention of this page is not to be an exhaustive reading list, but a compilation of free books that are accessible to all. I hope to spread the gift of making radical literature accessible to the masses, with the aim of politically educating people across the world to work towards the liberation of the oppressed and marginalised. If you have any suggestions, please comment or send them to me on my social media, I will do my best to find a free copy! Happy reading!
PALESTINE RESOURCES
With the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing occurring in Palestine, I have collated a list of free resources and free books. Political education is key to understanding the Palestinian genocide and apartheid, whilst also celebrating the wonderful Palestinian voices from the region.
Some things we can do: Radical education, committing to BDS, pressuring Trade Unions, Protesting, sharing and posting on social media by debunking propaganda.
- BDS List
- Palestine Film Institute Archive (Free Palestinian films to watch)
- 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 (Compiled PDfs of resources)
- https://yplus.ps/resource-database/
- Decolonise Palestine (Website with historical information and decolonial resources)
- The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
- Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nabulus, 1700-1900 by Beshara Doumani
- The 1936-39 revolt in Palestine by Ghassan Kanafani
- From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948 by Walid Khalidi
- A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
- Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine by Zachary Lockman
- The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism by Muhammad Y. Muslih
- The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappe
- Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine by Avi Shlaim
- Expulsion of the Palestinians by Nur Masalha
- The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory by Nur Masalha
- Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against Palestinians by Naom Chomsky and Ilan Pappe
- On Palestine by Naom Chomsky and Ilan Pappe
- Palestinian Politics after Arafat: A Failed National Movement by As’ad Ghanem
- Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking during the 1982 War by Rashid Khalidi
- The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 by Edward Said
- The Transformation of Palestine; essays on the origin and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict by Abu-Lughod & Ibrahim A
- Palestinians in the Arab world : institution building and the search for state by Brand and Laurie A
- The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi
- A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe
- Arab and Arab American feminisms: gender, violence, and belonging by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber
- Israel’s Dead Soul by Steven Salaita
- Manufacturing consent: The political economy of the mass media by Edward S. Herman and Naom Chomsky
- Uncivil rites : Palestine and the limits of academic freedom by Steven Salaita
- Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Lamont Hill
- I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
- In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi
- Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi
- My People Shall Live by Leila Khaled
- Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward Said
- Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Salman Abu Sitta
- Rethinking the Politics of Israel/Palestine: Partition and its Alternatives by Bashir Bashir and Azar Dakwar
- Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Naom Chomsky
- Peace and its discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East peace process by Edward Said
- Palestine Ltd.: Neoliberalism and nationalism in the occupied territory by Toufic Haddad
- The emergence of a Palestinian globalized elite by Linda Tabar and Sari Hanafi
- The political economy of Israel’s occupation by Shir Hever
- Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe
- Blaming the victims: Spurious scholarship and the Palestinian question by Christopher Hitchens and Edward Said
- The Woman From Tantoura by Radwa Ashur
- The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist by Imil Habibi
- Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories by Ghasan Kanafani
- The Butterfly’s Burden by Mahmoud Darwish
- Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation
- Disappearing Palestine : Israel’s experiments in human despair by Jonathan Cook
- Justice for Some by Noura Erakat
- Culture and resistance : conversations with Edward W. Said
- Palestinian Walks: notes on a vanishing landscape by Raja Shehadeh
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
Haiti
- Confronting Black Jacobins by Gerald Horne
- Avengers of the New World by Laurent Dubois
- “The Black Jacobins” by CLR James
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”
- On Practice and Contradiction by Mao Zedong
India
- 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
- 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
Nepal
- “Revolution in Nepal” by Alastair Reith
- “Seeking State Power: The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) by Kiyoko Ogura
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
Congo
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
Pakistan
Syria
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
- “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
- 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
- “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
- “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
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28 replies on “Revolutionary Study Guide”
this is great i love it
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thank you so much for this. i’ve been following you on twitter for a few months now and i’ve learned more than i’ve ever had in my 10+ years in school. This was a great masterpost.
An idea i have is to include films/docs that could possibly give more insight? I remember there was one Communist (Mao era) Chinese film you recommended on Twitter, that could possibly be included in the list. Never watched the Che films (the ones w benicio del toro) or the motorcycle diaries (or read the book), so not sure if those are good options or not, but just a suggestion.
anyway thanks for compiling this. i was a complete newbie to all of this, but because of all these resources im gradually learning and developing myself.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to list these resources. I cannot wait until I delve into all of them. Much love!
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Love this,
yours in struggle
-Cale
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YESSSS Thank you
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Hey comrade! I really love this study guide! Definitely keep working on it, though I should point out that there’s a decent amount of broken links on here.
Here’s the ones I could pick up:
both Mark Tauger pdfs, The Battle for China’s Past, Was Mao Really A Monster, Gender and Colonialism, A Documentary History of Fidel Castro’s Revolution, Guerrilla Warfare, Western DPRK Propaganda (site taken over by Star Wars fans), The Mexican Commune, Cheran Michoacan, The Mirror of Dignity, Where Have All the Marxists Gone, War Against The Panthers, The Assassination of Fred Hampton, The PKK Website, Katanga, Open Veins of Latin America, Eurocentrism, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Liberalism a Counter History, Male Privilege Checklist, What is Classism, Bell Hooks Masterlist, The Angela Davis Reader (only an excerpt from the book), and the Trans Resource Masterlist.
Sorry if this is a bit overwhelming, but thank you for doing such a wonderful job curating this! ^3^
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Hi there, all links have now been updated 🙂
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thank you so much for this, i haven’t been able to educate myself on this topic in a cohesive and easy manner given my adhd and life situation. anyways, again, THANK YOU SO MUCH
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I just tried the Friere link and it didn’t work. Looks like this is the correct one: https://libcom.org/library/pedagogy-oppressed
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Replaced, thanks!
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Thank you so much for this! 💖
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I wish you added more Haitian text and literature since us Haitians were the first ones to create a revolution overthrowing white slave owners and freeing themselves from slavery……. one of the biggest and successful Black revolutions to date. It’s a shame that with all this revolutionary text, theres none of that or even the combahee-river collective which is way more inclusive than the marxism texts………
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Hey! Thank you for bringing this to my attention, this is not an exhaustive list so as soon as I get time I am going to be revamping and putting this onto the list. Appreciate the feedback 🙂
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Hi just double checked and there is The Black Jacobins by CLR James which has been on there for some time, also Combahee river collective statement is also on there 🙂
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Thank you for do this, I have follow you in Twitter. Viva la Revolución. Health and Republic ✊❤️💛💜
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We cannot have a list on revolution and leave Haiti out of it.
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Haiti is on here 🙂
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This is a lot of good info
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Missing Mao’s on practice and on contradiction, two of the most beautiful and useful texts I’ve read in this movement
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3 years late but it has been added 🙂
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I’m obviously late to this, but this is so helpful
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The People Assembly thanks you for this list!
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We appreciate your solidarity comrade!
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Thank you.
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“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.” – Malcolm X
Thank you for helping wake us up! Your efforts to put this list together and make it widely, and freely available are much appreciated.
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thank you! can’t wait to get through this.
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Hi comrades appreciate your work! The gender and colonialism under India was denied access, could you please update? Thank you
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Whoever made this link, i just want to send a lot of love and blessings to you
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