Ebook - Liberated Texts, Collected Reviews: Volume One

"Books differ from all other propaganda media... because one single book can significantly change the reader's attitude and action to an extent unmatched by the impact of any other single medium... this is, of course, not true of all books at all times and with all readers - but it is true significantly often enough to make books the most important weapon of strategic (long-range) propaganda." Chief of the CIA's Covert Action Staff, 1961

Liberated Texts is dedicated to reviewing works of ongoing relevance that have been forgotten, underappreciated, suppressed or misinterpreted in the cultural mainstream since their release. This inaugural collection brings together all twenty-one review essays published on the Liberated Texts website in 2021, accompanied by an introduction written by its Founding Editor, Louis Allday.

The books under discussion in this volume broach a wide range of topics including Zionist colonialism and Palestinian resistance, Marxism in Africa, the US' defeat in Vietnam, everyday life in the DPRK, anti-indigenous racism in Canada, Soviet pedagogy, and the events of 9/11.

1. Liberated Texts: The Power of Books as Propaganda
Louis Allday

2. Fascisation as an Expression of Imperialist Decay: Rajani Palme Dutt’s Fascism and Social Revolution
Alfie Hancox

3. Imperialism and the Deep State: Peter Dale Scott’s The Road to 9/11—Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
Patrick Higgins

4. Mutiny in Vietnam: Richard Boyle’s Flower of the Dragon: The Breakdown of the U.S. Army in Vietnam
Marlon Ettinger

5. Penetrating Curtains of Deceit: I.F. Stone’s The Hidden History of the Korean War
Tim Beal and Gregory Elich

6. Socialist Construction in Korea: Suzy Kim’s Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950
Ju-Hyun Park

7. Revolution as Historic Necessity: Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China
Lewis Hodder

8. The Cause of Anti-colonialism and Liberation is One: Fayez Sayegh’s Zionist Colonialism in Palestine
Louis Allday

9. A History of the Anonymous Masses: Rosemary Sayigh’s Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries
Steven Salaita

10. Liberation, Wonder, and the “Magic of the World”: Basel al-Araj’s I Have Found My Answers
Hazem Jamjoum

11. Ireland’s Struggle for Self-determination: Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston’s Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution
Chris Beausang

12. The Capitalist Roots of Anti-Indigenous Racism in Canada: Howard Adams’ Prison of Grass
Owen Schalk

13. Independence with Blood: The Decolonial Vision of the Malayan Conscious Youth Movement’s Political Testament
Fadiah Nadwa Fikri

14. Walter Rodney’s Lost Book: One Hundred Years of Development in Africa
Leo Zeilig

15. African Socialism in Retrospect: Karim Hirji’s The Travails of a Tanzanian Teacher
Zeyad el-Nabolsy

16. Critiquing Human Rights Like It Matters: Issa Shivji’s The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
Paul O’Connell

17. Insurgent Theory in Times of Crisis: Dani Wadada Nabudere’s The Political Economy of Imperialism
Corinna Mullin

18. Reflections on Workers’ Organization: Makhan Singh’s History of Kenya’s Trade Union Movement to 1952
Noosim Naimasiah

19. Entrenching Inequality: The European Dependency School’s Underdeveloped Europe
Sam Parry

20. A Pedagogy of the Collective—From the Soviet Union to Latin America: Makarenko, His Life and Work
Alex Turrall

21. Reading Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society in the Neoliberal University
Justin Podur

22. A Pedagogy of Nature: Vasily Sukhomlinsky’s My Heart I Give to Children
Alex Turrall

February 2022
Ebb Books
350 Pages
ISBN 9781739985226