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Come say hi to us, and pick up some revolutionary books, today at Cork Radical Bookfair!

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The Sword and the Neck: Book Discussion with Yanis Iqbal Join this webinar on Yanis Iqbal’s The Sword and the Neck: Reading the al-Aqsa Flood, a militant philosophical intervention that challenges pacifist and reconciliatory tendencies within liberal and…

Starting in one hour!

Join an on-line seminar with Iskra author @YanisIqbal.bsky.social, to discuss his important book:

The Sword and the Neck

Organised by The Institute for De-Colonising Theory.

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Print, and free digital, editions of the book available:

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You can sign-up to attend:

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Friday!

Join an on-line seminar with Iskra author @YanisIqbal.bsky.social, to discuss his important book:

The Sword and the Neck

Organised by The Institute for De-Colonising Theory.

📅 Apr 17, 17:30 (Cairo), 16:30 (London), 11:30 (New York).

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Scars and Medals: Palestinian Resilience and Resistance amidst Occupation (w/ Mohanad Alsayed)
Scars and Medals: Palestinian Resilience and Resistance amidst Occupation (w/ Mohanad Alsayed) In this episode, I speak to Mohanad Alsayed about his new memoir titled “Scars and Medals”  released by Iskra Books. This memoir is a granular look at the occupation of Palestine from the perspective…

The podcast can be found on podcast providers, and also watched on the YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6NW...

The book is available as print, and free digital, edition on the website: www.iskrabooks.org/books/p/scar...

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Mohanad Alsayed was a guest on International Solidarity Podcast to discuss his book

Scars and Medals

"... a granular look at the occupation of Palestine from the perspective of Mohanad and his family... a story of occupation and hardship, but also one of agency, resilience, and resistance."

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Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future — Iskra Books Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future is Torkil Lauesen’s definitive synthesis of sixty years of debate on the political economy of imperialism.

Torkil's book is available in print editions, or free PDF, here: www.iskrabooks.org/books/p/ue-p...

The review can be read here: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unfi...

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Torkil Lauesen's Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future reviewed in @mstaronline.bsky.social

"a work of some scholarship and warrants detailed study"

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🚨 Announcement

We're excited to announce the next stage of our Stalin Collected Works series:

Vols 5 & 6 (1921-24) will be coming out on May 27.
Vols 7 & 8 (1925-26) due out in November.

Essential documents of the early years of socialist construction in the USSR.

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The title of @yanisiqbal.bsky.social's 'Sword and the Neck' is taken from a Kanafani quote, and reminds us of the need for militant action.

Print, and free digital editions: www.iskrabooks.org/books/p/the-...

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In the early 1970s Ghassan Kanafani, along with Majed Abu Sharar and Kamal Nasser, formed the Palestine Liberation Organization’s information office. You can read some of those publications in

The Historical Documents of the PLO

Print, and free digital editions: www.iskrabooks.org/books/p/hist...

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Kanafani wrote many of the important early documents of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which can be found in our collection:

Historical Documents of the Popular Front

Print, and free digital editions: www.iskrabooks.org/books/p/hist...

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Today is Ghassan Kanafani's birthday.

"The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinian's only."

Every day we our inspired by his writings, as are some of our books:

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Teaching The Actuality Of Revolution - Derek Ford — Iskra Books Buy Direct (20% off) Free PDF 🌏 For international or multiple title direct orders, please email inquiries@iskrabooks.org. Written by Derek R. Ford ISBN 979-8-2957-7314-3 158…

Available as print, and free digital, edition: www.iskrabooks.org/books/p/teac...

For 20% off, use this link: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

For non US/Britain discount orders, email inquiries@iskrabooks.org

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Teaching the Actuality of Revolution - Derek Ford

"Exploring the nexus between aesthetics, pedagogy, and politics ... [it] provides an extensive new set of concepts, practices, and readings for revolutionaries to better plan, enact, reflect on, and refine our organizing efforts."

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Iskra Books stall - all day at @briztransformed.

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Scars and Medals — Mohanad Alsayed — Iskra Books Gripping the reader from the very beginning, Scars and Medals is the journey of Mohanad Alsayed. From coming of age during the First Intifada, moving to America, and the riveting search for a lost…

Print edition, and free digital edition, available:

www.iskrabooks.org/scars-and-me...

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This week's release!

Scars and Medals - Mohanad Alsayed (@LtsFreePalestine)

Gripping the reader from the very beginning, Mohanad's memoir—from coming of age during the First Intifada, and the riveting search in diaspora for a lost freedom fighter uncle.

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Submissions — Iskra Books We accept original manuscript submissions from scholars and writers both inside and outside the academy, with the intent that our publishing mission serves to move intellectual production outside the…

We're accepting submissions until end of May, and publishing in September of this year. This journal will be published twice yearly. For more details, see www.iskrabooks.org/journal.

Send contributions to submissions@iskrabooks.org for review. Procedures and details: www.iskrabooks.org/submissions.

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Iskra Books is excited to launch our new journal project - Red Horizons!

This scholarly, radical journal will be in the service of global liberation movements—a site for cutting-edge theory, translations, art, and poetry.

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On Saturday, Iskra Books will be selling books in-person at @briztransformed—a festival of radical politics, arts, and culture.

📆 Sat 4th April
📍 Bristol, England
🎟️ Tickets: hdfst.uk/e145672

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Iskra books at the Unequal Exchange in the 21st Century conference for the next 3 days. unequalexchange.org/2025/08/25/a...

With activists, academics, and anti-imperialists from all over the world studying and applying the work of Arghiri Emmanuel.

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iskra books offers free copies of all their books via their website (which is so rad! i love it!!) and you should support iskra books if you can because they publish valuable and interesting revolutionary reading material ❤️🖤🔥

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Book launch event :
📍Eastside Arts Cultural Centre, Oakland, CA
📅Jan 23, 8pm
📷Arlene Eisen, Nadya Tannous, Kara Young, and more!

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In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women - Arlene Eisen Arlene Eisen's memoir charts a personal and radical journey of resistance to empire, alongside a global community of women.

Release Day!

In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women - Arlene Eisen
@Arlene519

A riveting memoir/social history of struggle over turbulent decades, with lessons for today’s liberation movements.

Iskra Books invites you to join The Worldwide Family of Militant Women!

Available now:

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Selected Works of Jose Carlos Mariátegui

An innovator of Latin American Marxist thought, whose important writings on the revolutionary potential of the peasantry and Indigenous peoples (among other things) are collected here. 


FREE PDF, and print edition - www.iskrabooks.org/selected-wor...

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Book launch event:



Eastside Arts Cultural Centre, Oakland, CA
Jan 23, 8pm
Arlene Eisen, Nadya Tannous, Kara Young, and more!

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One week today!



Our first book of the year

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In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women by Arlene Eisen.

Free PDF, and print edition available Jan 23!



The book can be preordered here - www.iskrabooks.org/worldwide-family

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Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future Torkil Lauesen's sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance.

Link to FREE pdf, and print editions of the book - iskrabooks.org/ue-past-pres...

Conference Details: unequalexchange.org/2025/08/25/a...

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