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Kwame Nkrumah — Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution [1968-01-01]

Panaf Books (UK) & International Publishers (US) | First US edition 1969 | 0717802264 | 122 pp.

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“Present-day imperialist & neocolonialist intervention”: “capitalism proceeded to introduce… external reforms designed to raise the extra money needed for the… welfare state at home” through “exploitation of the material & human resources of the colonial territories.” “Sham-independence” leaves “economic power under the control of international finance capital.” “Voice of America… pursuing its brainwashing mission” & “the paper war penetrates into every town & village.” Revolutionary warfare is “the key to African freedom,” requiring “an intelligent, egalitarian, critical & self-critical outlook” rather than “hierarchic, coercive & follow-like sheep relationships.” “Discipline comes from inner conviction”—“a freedom fighter who steals, loots, rapes or commits any other crime… endangers the whole revolutionary movement.” “Total liberation & unity of the African continent” is the aim.

Hugo Chávez — The Fascist Coup Against Venezuela: Speeches and Addresses December 2002 - January 2003 [2003-01-01]

Ediciones Plaza, Havana | First edition January 2003 | 74 pp.

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“A struggle of the past against the future & against hope… of ignominy against dignity.” The “petroleum oligarchy, the big entrepreneurs, the owners of private TV networks… allied in a perfidious pro-coup coalition” aimed to “frustrate the dreams of social justice.” After “the ephemeral coup d’état president, Pedro Carmona (‘the Brief’) rushed out through the back door,” the plotters regrouped to “paralyze the economic heart of the country” via “media terrorism, something unprecedented in history.” “Private television networks & other media… attack the Chavez government 24 hours a day, calling all the time for civil disobedience, disseminating gross lies.” Their objective: “to wipe out in one fell swoop all the just laws” & “reinstate the past with its social exclusion & violation of rights.” President Chávez’s “combative & philosophical words… are an indispensable testimony of the battle that today is being waged in Venezuela for its people, for the ideas of Bolívar.”

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