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

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. idctheory.org/upcoming-eve...

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…

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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).

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."

Torkil Lauesen's Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future reviewed in @mstaronline.bsky.social "a work of some scholarship and warrants detailed study"

🚨 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.

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:

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."

Iskra Books stall - all day at @briztransformed.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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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:

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:

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.

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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. 


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One week today!

 Our first book of the year

! 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

On Jan 29 - 31 we will be attending The Political Economy of Imperialism conference in Amsterdam, organised by Arghiri Emmanuel Association and Anti-Imperialist.Net. We will be selling books & Torkil Lauesen will be giving a talk on his new book, Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future.

Reading in Al-Mushtarak An exploration of revolutionary theory through a lens of Arab-Islamic history and socialist thought. An essential guide for those seeking to understand the intersections of Islamic philosophy and Marxist thought, advocating for a collaborative, democratic future.

🚨Book launch event! To launch Arlene Eisen's new book: In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women 📍Eastside Arts Cultural Centre, Oakland, CA 📅 Jan 23, 8pm 🗣️ Arlene Eisen, Nadya Tannous, Kara Young, and more! 🔗The book can be preordered - iskrabooks.org/worldwide-fa...

"The hallmark of a Marxist is to have an analysis, strategy, and praxis for the context in which one is situated. The communists in the Global North must include the anti-imperialist struggle, and thereby the struggle against their own states’ imperialism, as a centerpiece in their strategy."

🚨Release Day!🚨 📕Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future-Torkil Lauesen. 📖A sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance. 🔗FREE PDF, and print editions available: iskrabooks.org/ue-past-pres...

📖From the latest Peace, Land, and Bread Journal. 🟥By reading the works of Marx, Engels, and Luxemburg, Nolan Long argues it becomes clear that revolutionary defeat is something from which to learn. ➡️ Available now in beautiful softcover and free digital editions at: iskrabooks.org/plb6

A review of our newest title by CAGE International: 'The Sword and the Neck' by Yanis Iqbal is "one of the most intellectually ambitious and morally charged responses yet written to the events of 7 October." www.cage.ngo/articles/boo... FREE PDF, print edition: www.iskrabooks.org/the-sword-an...

Book Review: The Sword and the Neck – Reading the al-Aqsa Flood by Yanis Iqbal

In The Sword and the Neck, the young Indian Marxist writer Yanis Iqbal offers one of the most intellectually ambitious and morally charged responses yet written to the events of 7 October 2023 and the...

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🚨Our newest release!🚨 📙 'Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation' by João Romeiro Hermeto. ⏲️A critique of capitalism’s “perpetual present,” exposing how the system reproduces itself. 🔗FREE PDF, and print edition, available at: iskrabooks.org/capitalist-e...

Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation

A critique of capitalism’s “perpetual present,” exposing how the system reproduces itself through historical amnesia, ideological control, and aesthetic illusion.

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🌎Out on Friday! 📘For Land - Capital as Extinction By @prolekult.bsky.social 🌴An annotated and expanded version of the script of Prolekult's essential documentary on land use and misuse in contemporary capitalism. Also includes practical study guides and more. 🔗Doc: youtube.com/watch?v=f-P4...

📖From the latest Peace, Land, & Bread. 🇨🇳A clear explanation of "three explanations and five characteristics" that have driven the success of the People's Republic of China, by @kyletrainemoji.bsky.social ➡️Available now in beautiful softcover and free digital editions at: iskrabooks.org/plb6

For the issue #6 of Peace, Land, & Bread, Gerald Horne and I wrote about "Ho Chi Minh and Black Liberation." We discuss Garveyism, Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams & more. Check it out! Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.

📕Announcement!📕 We're excited to announce the release date for Yanis Iqbal 's 'The Sword and the Neck: Reading the al-Aqsa Flood' will be November 21st!

📕Our newest book!📕 🇵🇸Marking 2 years since the world-historic events of October 7th, we’re excited to release the Historical Documents of the Popular Front. 🔗FREE PDF, and print editions available - iskrabooks.org/popularfront 🍉All profits from sales go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social