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Written by Mohamed Khougali
ISBN-13: 9798295876950 (Softcover)
172 pages
Publication Date: 24 June 2026
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Politically Unconscious: The Psychic Aftermath of the Sudanese Revolution is Mohamed Khougali's reflection on what it means to organize and think after a revolution has been usurped. Written as both a participant in Sudan's 2018-19 uprising and a working psychotherapist, Khougali weaves together a history of the Sudanese Left, an account of the current war and the racialized financialization that informed the various factions, alongside the development of a new clinical modality he calls "praxis psychotherapy."
Refusing the reductive binaries of international media coverage and the moral puritanism he sees paralyzing contemporary leftist thought, Khougali argues that Sudan cannot be understood apart from a longer "irrational revolution" linking Khartoum to Darfur, and Sudan to Palestine, through the same circuits of imperial accumulation and waste. At once political history and clinical experiment, Politically Unconscious is a work with lessons for comrades involved in the struggle—in Sudan, and far beyond.
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ISBN-13: 9798182782296 (Softcover)
146 pages
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Publication Date: 30 Sep 2026
RED HORIZONS Issue 1 is a product of the rising internationalist tide. In response to the depravities of imperialist militarism. suffocating state repression. and increasingly catastrophic ecological breakdown millions around the globe are breaking ranks and searching for an alternative. Iskra Books' new journal aims to serve as a practical tool for this moment-in the hands of activists. workers. scholars (within and beyond the academy). and all who carry forward the internationalist legacy of the workers' movement. We aim to build a space where a global community of communist scholar-activist-artists can come together. working together to create the theoretical and creative weapons to support liberatory movements around the world.
Art
kinografika @penandrifle
Katie Ries
Amy Matsushita-Beal
chimeraxmachina
J.K. Hale
Articles
The Transitional Mode of Production:
In a Capitalist World Heading Towards Socialism
Torkil Lauesen
Beneath the Wire:
Indigenous Worlds and the Making of Empire
Caitlyn Lee-Mei-Jin Merry
Sex and Gender in the longue durée:
Reification and the Dialectics of Liberation
Alessandro Serra Zancan
Class and the Earliest Christians:
An Intervention Against Certain Illusions
Chrissy M.E. Hansen
Women’s Work and Imperialism’s Decline:
The Material Basis of Attacks on Women & LGBTQ People in the US
Serena Sojic-Borne
Containment:
The First Indochina War and Yunnan Anti-communist National Salvation Army, 1949–1954
Massimo Siro Andolfatto
Poetry
Aida Noor Habib
Jacob Bridges
Julian Tuwim (translated by Patricia Manos)
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Written by Daniel Brooks
ISBN-13: 9798295735318 (Softcover)
86 pages
Publication Date: 29 July 2026
Part of the Red Poetry Series.
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4 My Peoples is a powerful, poetic call to arms from the belly of the empire. Daniel Brooks’ urgent words tell of drone warfare, surveillance states, and the fascist roots of American power, while refusing despair and finding rhythm in resistance.
Seeking strength and meaning through connecting with those that have gone before, 4 My Peoples shows how poetry can still bite, still organize, and speak to and for the people rather than about them.
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The Communist Question, published posthumously in Italian, is a continuation of the discussion began in Losurdo’s Western Marxism… book. Here, Losurdo continues his analysis of the seemingly inescapable crisis, following the dissolution of the USSR, afflicting Marxism in the Western countries. Losurdo asserts that this outcome is not “destiny” and unapologetically asserts the legacy of the Soviet period and the necessity of Marxism as an approach. Moreover, he continues his analysis of Marxism to identify what it is capable of leading to in our immediate future.
Part of the Anti-Imperialist Marxism (AIM) Series.
The continuation of Iskra Books’ reprint of the Collected Works of Josef Stalin.
Vols 7 & 8 (1925-26) due out 13 November.
Essential documents of the early years of socialist construction.
Containing many of Connolly's most beloved and essential texts, this collection brings his radical thought to light. These writings, foundational for Irish national liberation, contain lessons which serve liberation movements around the world.
The Complete Shorter Works of James Connolly, meticulously edited and introduced by historian Conor McCabe, feature important publications such as Erin's Hope, Socialism Made Easy, and Socialism and Nationalism. These pamphlets, designed as educational tools for the masses, expertly connected the Irish national liberation struggle to that of a socialist worker's republic. This collection also includes Connolly's works not only as an author, but also as an editor. Bringing together writings from the 1798 rebellion, including rebel songs, these works showcase Connolly's part in the centuries-long struggle for true independence from the British. This book also contains newly discovered writings from Connolly from 1889-1898.
Together, these works form an essential part of a comprehensive and unadulterated oeuvre of Connolly's writings, edited and corrected, with substantial introductions and contextualization by Conor McCabe. Designed to support the resistance of those fighting imperialism everywhere, this indispensable collection shows why Connolly is considered required reading for revolutionaries around the globe.
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Edited by Conor McCabe
ISBN-13: 9798182786669 (Softcover)
ISBN-13: 9798182786713 (Jacketed Hardcover)
432 pages
Publication Date: 30 October 2026
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.”
Part of the Anti-Imperialist Marxism (AIM) Series.