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On this page you
will find a variety of reading recommended by the organisers of SPRING. The
list is in no way comprehensive and is incredibly eclectic, as we
believe that people should read as much as possible from a wide variety
of sources and this includes radical schools of thought such as Marxism
and anarchism. The organisers of SPRING are
not orthodox Marxists or anarchists but are influenced by and
appreciative of some writers from these backgrounds.The key thinkers
from these movements have influenced
the world more than most people today appreciate and even if you are
wary or deeply sceptical of people who claim to be influenced by
writers from these traditions, we believe that everyone should
familiarise themselves with the key protagonsts of the left. For this
reason, below we have two categories: "Marxism" and
"anarchism" with links to specialist pages which contain more than
enough to give you an idea of the key concepts and principles of the
left. Without reading works by at least the writers represented on this
page, you cannot claim to understand arguments about political economy
in our current circumstances fully. Take the
time to look and read more, you may be surprised at what you discover
and come to realise that people on th left are often the most
rational, insightful and enlightened in society! If you're new to
SPRING,
don't be put off by things that you think are TOO radical, think for
yourself and come along and participate in events!!
Marxism
Antonio
Gramsci ...continue
V.I.
Lenin
...continue
Rosa Luxemburg...continue
Marx
& Engels...continue
Leon
Trotsky...continue
Anarchism
Michel
Bakunin...continue
Murray Bookchin...continue
Emma
Goldman...continue
Peter Kropotkin...continue
Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon...continue
Monthly
Random
Reading
Below
you can find random lists of recommended reading from the
bookshelf of
our webmaster. If you want to add to the list mail us or register on
the forum and make your recommendation. Reviews
of new books are also welcome!
April
2008
Angie Debo: A History of the Indians of
the United States
Frantz Fanon: A dying Colonialism
Eric Fromm: Marx's Concept of Man (1961)
Socialist Humanism (1965)
Jessica Mills: My Mother Wears Combat Boots
Arundhati Roy: Public power in the Age of Empire
Bertrand Russell: Roads to Freedom :
Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism.
Jean Paul Sartre: The Age of Reason
The Reprieve
Iron in the Soul
March
2008 - Better late than never!
Wilfrid Desan: The Marxism of Jean
Paul Sartre
A.Dragstedt & Cliff Slaughter:
State, Power and Bureaucracy
Paul Mason: Live Working or Die Fighting
Abel Paz: Durruti In the Spanish Revolution
JCP: Eighty
Years of the Japanese Communist Party
February
2008
Jose Bove & Francois Dufour: The World is not For Sale:Farmers
Against Junk food
Sam Bornstein & Al Richardson: War and the International:A History
of the Trotskyist movement in Britain 1937-1949
Terry Eagleton: After Theory
Ernesto Che Guevara: Bolivian Diary
Tanya Reinhart: Israel/Palestine:How to End the war of 1948
Fara Reza: Anti-Imperialism:A Guide for the Movement
Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations (Know your enemy! Ed.)
Francis Wheen: Karl Marx:A Life
Malcolm X & Alex Haley: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States
January
2008
Michael
Albert: Parecon: Life After Capitalism
Tariq Ali: Streetfighting Years:An Autobiography of the Sixties
Herbert.P.Bix:
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Noam Chomsky: Proft Over People
William.J.Duiker: Ho Chi Minh: A Life
Nick Henck: Subcommander Marcos:The Man and the Mask
E.J. Hobsbawm: Revolutionaries
Herbert Marcuse: One Dimensional Man
Edward.W.Said: Orientalism
Leon Trotsky: Third International After Lenin
December 2007
John
Lee Anderson: Che Guevara:A Revolutionary Life
Horace Campbell: Rasta and Resistance:From Marcus Garvey to Walter
Rodney
Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle
Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish
James.W.Loewen: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Istvan Meszaros: Beyond Capital
Felix Morrow: Spain:Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Jonathan Neale: A People's History of the Vietnam War
Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri: Multitude:War and Democracy in the
Age of Empire
David Ricardo: Principles of Political Economy and Taxation ( Know your enemy! Ed.)
November 2007
Pierre Bourdieu: Acts of Resistance:Against the Tyranny of the Market
William.R. Clarke: Petrodollar Warfare:Oil, Iraq and the Future of the
Dollar
Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth
Naomi Kline: The Shock Doctrine
Peter Fryer: Hungarian Tradegy
Paul Gilroy: There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
P.O Lissagaray: History of the Paris Commune
Anton Pannekoek: Worker's Councils
David Renton: Dissident Marxism:Past Voices for Present Times
Edward.W.Said: The Question of Palestine
Boaventura de Sousa Santos (ed.): Democratising Democracy
Each month a
different RR will be knocked up, until we start
getting some regular contributions from those of you who are better
read than the man without a plan - the webmaster!
"THE INSISTENCE THAT
THE OPPRESSED ENGAGE IN REFLECTION ON THEIR CONCRETE SITUATION IS
NOT
A CALL TO ARMCHAIR REVOLUTION. ON THE CONTRARY, REFLECTION - TRUE
REFLECTION - LEADS TO ACTION!!"
(Paulo Freire: The Pedagogy of the Oppressed;Chapter 1,p 66, Continuum
International 2007 ).
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Education
Henry A. Giroux ... continue
Stanley
Aronowitz...continue
Daring to Dream: Toward a Pedagogy of the Unfinished
(Series in Critical Narrative) by Paulo
Freire, Ana Lucia Souza de Frietas, Peter Park, and Donaldo Macedo
Literacies
of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know by Donaldo
Macedo and Paulo Freire
Media Literacy: A Reader by Donaldo
Macedo and Shirley R. Steinberg
Paulo Freire:
Pedagogy of the
Oppressed
Education for Critical Consciousness
Pedagogy of the City
Pedagogy of Hope:Reliving Pedagogy of
the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Heart
The Paulo Freire Reader
From Papirus Publishers:
The Irreverent Subject (O sujeito irreverente) - Adriano Nogueria
State and Popular Education in Latin American - Moacir Gadotti and Carlos Alberto
Torres
Pedagogical Mediation: Alternative Distance Education - Francisco Gutiérrez
Community Education in the Third World - Jürgen Zimmer and
Cyril Poster
Pedagogy of Struggle - Carlos
Alberto Torres
What (and How) It’s Necessary to Learn: Basic Learning Needs
and Curriculum Content - Rosa Maria Torres
Brazilian Education: Administration and Finance - David
Plank
From Cortez Publishers
Education and Human Development -
José Luiz Corraggio
To Educate the Sovereign: Critique of the Pedagogical
Enlightenment of Yesterday and Today )
- José Tamaratit
Critical Multiculturalism - Peter McLaren
Social Pedagogy of the Street - Maria Stela Graciani
School and Knowledge - Mario Sergio Cortella
Dialectic of Difference: The Citizen-School Faces
Neoliberalism - José Eustáquio Romão
School
Autonomy: Principles and Proposals - Moacir Gadotti and
José
Eustáquio Romão
Dialogical
Evaluation: Challenges and Perspectives - José
Eustáquio Romão
Ecopedagogy
and Planetary Citizenship - Francisco
Gutiérrez
Education of
Youth and Adults: Theory, Practice and Proposal - Moacir Gadotti e José
Eustáquio Romão (2nd edition revised and expanded
in press)
Education of
Youth and Adults: The Experience of MOVA in São Paulo - Moacir
Gadotti (ed.)
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