Abolition is the only way forward
a reading list

"Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires... [but] the greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.” ―Mumia Abu-Jamal

U.S. Imperialism in Latin America and Beyond

A Reading List

A collection of texts on U.S. imperialism in Latin America and beyond, ranging from classic works by Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, José Martí, and Clara Nieto, to other crucial works of anti-imperialist literature from around the world.

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MOVEMENTS THAT WIN
PATTERNS OF RESISTANCE, ECOLOGIES OF STRUGGLE
BY ARIC MCBAY

"[A] sizzling invitation to unleash your most radical imagination, to dive into the wreckage, and to risk winning a humane future.” —Bill Ayers

ANTHROPAUSE
THE BEAUTY OF DEGROWTH
BY STAN COX

“An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be.” —Naomi Klein

SAD TIGER

BY NEIGE SINNO, TR. NATASHA LEHRER

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's Gregg Barrios Prize for Books in Translation

Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature

"Everyone should read it."
—Annie Ernaux

A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY: 20th anniversary edition
BY KURT VONNEGUT

“The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

ENEMY OF THE SUN

POETRY OF PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE

Originally published in 1970 by the SNCC, this updated edition of Enemy of the Sun features new poems translated by Edmund Ghareeb and a new foreword by Dr. Greg Thomas.

THE OTHER GIRL

BY ANNIE ERNAUX

TRANSLATED BY ALISON L. STRAYER

“I had to come to terms with this mysterious inconsistency: you, the good girl, were not saved, but I, the demon, survived. . . you had to die at six for me to come into the world and be saved.”

ARE PRISONS OBSOLETE? 

 

by Angela Y. Davis

What is prison abolition? In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Y. Davis presents a compelling case for why we must immediately dismantle the prison industrial complex.

ORLANDA: A NOVEL
BY JACQUELINE HARPMAN
TRANSLATED BY ROS SCHWARTZ

From the author of I Who Have Never Known Men, a groundbreaking novel about a woman whose mind splinters and finds itself in the body of a young man.

EYE OF THE MONKEY

By Krisztina Tóth

Translated by Ottilie Mulzet

“Krisztina Tóth is irredeemably a poet. This is revealed by every element of her latest novel... [She] is a magnificent artist; receive her as such.”
—László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

A FREE eBOOK SAMPLER OF LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Featuring prose by Annie Ernaux, Abdellah Taïa, Krisztina Tóth, Che Guevara, Jacqueline Harpman, and José Antonio Emmanuel, and poems by Rashed Hussein, Sameeh Al-qassem, Samar Najia, and Hend Judat.

WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM

EDITED BY MARJANE SATRAPI

An urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic story-telling about the present Iranian revolution from Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis.

YOU KNOW, SEX

Bodies, Gender, Puberty and Other Things!

BY CORY SILVERBERG AND FIONA SMYTH

A completely new, radically inclusive approach to learning about puberty, sex, and gender. Ages 10+

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