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Written by Mohanad Alsayed
ISBN 979-8-2956-3244-0
124 pages
Publication Date: 30 March 2026
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 freedom fighter uncle. Including conversations with his grandmother who lived through the Nakba, this work shows the intergenerational connection to Palestine, surviving in the face of colonization and occupation. His story is a reminder to us all that Palestinians’ existence is resistance, and the most courageous act is to live.
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Written by Arlene Eisen
ISBN 9798295707605
470 pages
Publication Date: 23 January 2026
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Connecting the frontlines of history with the urgent struggles of today, Arlene Eisen’s memoir/social history charts a personal and collective radical journey of the 1960s through the early 1980s.
In The Worldwide Family of Militant Women is a riveting account of these turbulent decades—from the mountains of Peru and the jungles of Vietnam to the revolutionary projects of Cuba, China, the USSR, and back to struggles inside the US.
Eisen demonstrates how she, and thousands of other women, had the opportunity to learn in a time of historic upheaval when revolutionary movements were on the rise in every continent. They joined those struggles both as rank and file and as leaders, in their own organizations and in national organizations; for their own survival and liberation as well as for the liberation of their nations.
As the US once again wages genocidal war against poorer nations, Eisen’s hard‑won lessons resonate loudly. Her story is a call to action for a new generation, outraged by imperial impunity and searching for a path of meaningful resistance. For anyone compelled to challenge the same intolerable war machine, this book offers indispensable wisdom, profound hope, and the proof that we do not fight alone.
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Written by Torkil Lauesen
ISBN
979-8-3306-1334-2 (SC)
979-8-3306-1254-3 (Jacketed HC)
310 pages
Publication Date: 5 December 2025
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A sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance.
Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future is Torkil Lauesen’s definitive synthesis of sixty years of debate on the political economy of imperialism. Returning to Arghiri Emmanuel’s groundbreaking theory of unequal exchange—the systematic transfer of value from low-wage regions of the Global South to high-wage countries in the Global North—Lauesen reconstructs the historical, theoretical, and political stakes of the concept with unmatched clarity. Moving from the early structures of colonial extraction to contemporary global value chains, he shows how wage differentials, outsourcing, and the international division of labor continue to polarize the world-system, shaping everything from living standards to global political alignments.
Drawing on archival material, as well as contributions from dependency theorists, world-systems analysis, ecological economists, and contemporary empirical research, Lauesen demonstrates how unequal exchange underpins the prosperity of the imperial core while undermining development in the periphery. Across chapters on measurement, solidarity, crisis, technological transfer, ecological degradation, multipolarity, and socialist transition, he lays out a comprehensive account of how unequal exchange evolved—and why it remains central to understanding the 21st-century global order.
This book offers a rigorous, accessible, and politically urgent guide for scholars, organizers, and readers seeking to comprehend the structural foundations of imperialism today and the possibilities for building a more equal and sustainable world-system.
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Inspired by Fanon, Khougali’s Politically Unconscious charts the history of the Sudanese left and investigates the psychological reality of participants of the Sudanese revolution of 2019.
Ali Kadri’s essential investigation into the role of waste (of people and nature) in capitalism.
“Destruction becomes the principal commodity produced by capital. Militarism will lead accumulation, which will theoretically demolish any limit to capital.”