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Independent reviews & (re)publication of books of ongoing relevance that have been under-appreciated, suppressed or misinterpreted since their release.
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    Feb 21, 2022
    Featuring the work of so many great writers, our first collected reviews volume is published today & available to buy direct on the @Ebb_Magazine website. Every copy sold will help contribute to continuing our work highlighting neglected & important texts. ebb-magazine.com/books/p/libera…
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    Apr 8, 2021
    Fidel Castro on reading ‘The Communist Manifesto’ for the first time:
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    Apr 7, 2021
    Nelson Mandela on reading Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin & Mao and reconciling dialectical materialism with his belief in African nationalism.
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    Mar 30, 2021
    Head of Covert Action of the CIA in 1961:
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    May 11, 2021
    If you’re looking for an introduction to the history of Zionism and the establishment of Israel, then Fayez Sayegh’s ‘Zionist Colonialism in Palestine’, reviewed below, is a great place to start.
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    Mar 25, 2021
    In this review, @Louis_Allday discusses the neglected & hugely prescient work ‘Zionist Colonialism in Palestine’ written for the PLO’s Research Centre in 1965 by Fayez Sayegh, once one of the most prominent advocates for the Palestinian cause in the West. liberatedtexts.com/reviews/the-ca…
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    Mar 6, 2022
    Today marks five years since Israeli forces assassinated the Palestinian intellectual and militant, Basel al-Araj. Read this moving review of his posthumously published book “I Have Found My Answers” to get an idea of the significance of his life & work. liberatedtexts.com/reviews/libera…
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    Feb 24, 2023
    Mass destruction of Russian and Soviet-era books disgustingly being portrayed by US media as a bookshop’s recycling initiative and a “powerful symbol”.
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    Feb 24, 2023
    "This is a pretty powerful symbol of Ukraine's rejection of Russian culture." @Reevellp is in Kyiv where a bookstore is recycling Russian books that Ukrainians no longer want in their homes. Here's how the Russia-Ukraine conflict became a cultural war: abcn.ws/3Zy6319
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    Dec 7, 2022
    Exciting news that following our review of it last year, I. F. Stone’s 1952 classic “The Hidden History of the Korean War” is being reissued by Monthly Review Press.
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    Oct 15, 2021
    Thomas Sankara speaking two years before he was murdered on this day in 1987: “I have told myself either I’ll finish up an old man somewhere in a library reading books or I’ll meet with a violent end”.
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    Mar 24, 2021
    Liberated Texts is an independent book review website which features works of ongoing relevance that have been forgotten, underappreciated, suppressed or misinterpreted in the cultural mainstream since their release.
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    Liberated Texts is an independent book review website which features works of ongoing relevance...
    “Books differ from all other propaganda media… because one book can significantly change the reader’s attitude and action to an extent unmatched by the impact of any other single medium”
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    Mar 25, 2021
    In this review, @Louis_Allday discusses the neglected & hugely prescient work ‘Zionist Colonialism in Palestine’ written for the PLO’s Research Centre in 1965 by Fayez Sayegh, once one of the most prominent advocates for the Palestinian cause in the West.
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    The Cause of Anti-colonialism and Liberation is One: Fayez Sayegh’s Zionist Colonialism in Palest...
    Contrary to the liberal-Zionist myth that Zionism began as a noble cause, but has been corrupted and dragged rightwards since 1967, Sayegh explains how Zionism was a colonialist and racist enterprise...
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    Nov 16, 2023
    “From its inception… the Zionist movement has been reactionary and has aligned itself with capitalist, imperialist, anti-semitic, right-wing, and fascist forces. It is through its relations with such forces that Zionism has sustained itself.” liberatedtexts.com/reviews/zionis…
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    Oct 31, 2023
    “When opponents of Zionism proclaim that Israel is a fascist entity they are speaking a historical truth…” @VivaAbuJilda and @Louis_Allday on Faris Yahya Glubb’s painfully relevant & sorely overlooked book, “Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany” (1978). liberatedtexts.com/reviews/zionis…
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    Mar 29, 2021
    A declassified CIA book review of 'Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism' (1965) by the then President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. Just a few months later, Nkrumah was deposed in a CIA-orchestrated coup. cia.gov/readingroom/do…