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Iskra Books
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An independent, nonprofit, scholarly publisher specializing in original works of revolutionary theory, practice, and art—serving peoples’ movements since 2017.
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    Iskra Books
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    Jun 3
    🚨Major Release Today🚨 We are very pleased to announce Volumes 5 and 6 of the Collected Works of Josef Stalin are now available! The Collected Works of Stalin Volume 5 continues the essential chronicles of the beginnings of the Soviet state in the years 1921 to 1923. Volume 6
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    Jul 5, 2020
    Nothing is more of a testament to communism than terrified billionaires trying to convince you it doesn't work
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    Jul 5, 2020
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    Apr 18, 2020
    A pictorial representation of imperialism
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    Oct 15, 2025
    “Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms—a loan, food aid, blackmail. We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity.” Today we remember the great Thomas Sankara who was lost on this day in 1987.
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    Mar 5, 2025
    72 years since the world lost Stalin. After his death W. E. B. Du Bois remarked “Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature.” Stalin, however, always saw himself as an expression of the Soviet people, and the world communist
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    Aug 27, 2025
    📕Announcement!📕 We are excited to announce we will be releasing The Historical Documents of the Popular Front on October 7th! Through their own publications, the collection charts the history and organizational and ideological development of the Popular Front.
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    Jun 11, 2025
    Nice of Piketty to join us! You too can learn about the political economy of Unequal Exchange with our excellent, updated version of a classic text: Free PDF and discount print editions: iskrabooks.org/unequal-exchan…
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    Thomas Piketty
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    Jun 9, 2025
    Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with @gatonievas [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…
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    Iskra Books
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    Apr 1, 2024
    Verso? Never heard of them.
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    Verso Books
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    Apr 1, 2024
    The time has finally come. We're excited to announce that we will be releasing a brand new and official translation of Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend in spring 2025.
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    Aug 19, 2025
    📕Announcement📕 Unequal Exchange, Past, Present, and Future - Torkil Lauesen. Bringing the theory of Unequal Development into the 21st Century. Available on December 5th, 2025!
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    Oct 6, 2025
    📕Tomorrow!📕 "The PFLP is guided by historical and dialectical materialism; the progressive aspects of the intellectual and cultural heritage of the Palestinian people and their glorious traditions of struggle; and the progressive aspects of the intellectual and cultural
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    Jul 3, 2020
    Western support is very strategic. Hong Kong's independence, but not Puerto Rico's. Uighur Muslims but not Palestinian. The only reason for their support is self interest.
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    Iskra Books
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    Nov 17, 2025
    "'How Paris Made the Revolution and the Revolution Made Paris' is a fascinating and deeply insightful contribution that vividly captures the dialectical relationship between urban space, social transformation, and revolutionary consciousness." Klevis Kolasi of the Department of
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    Iskra Books
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    Feb 25, 2025
    Remembering Aaron Bushnell today, who gave his life in an act of conscience. His final words—“I will no longer be complicit”—echo as a call to all those who refuse to turn away from the active genocide of the Palestinian people. May his memory be a blessing; remembered by our
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    Jul 5, 2020