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Towards Land, Work and Power: Charting a Path of Resistance to us-led Imperialism.(Brief article)(Book review)

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| July 01, 2006 | Themba-Nixon, Makani | COPYRIGHT 2006 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

TOWARDS LAND, WORK AND POWER: CHARTING A PATH OF RESISTANCE TO US-LED IMPERIALISM

By Jaron Browne, Marisa Franco, Jason Negron-Gonzales and Steve Williams

Unite to Fight Press, 2005

IN SPITEOF ITS LONGISH TITLE, this book is solidly grounded in theory, practice and a forward vision that my 16-year-old daughter can understand. Perhaps the most elegant statement I can make about the book is that she picked it up, read it all the way through and thanked me, saying, "That was cool!"

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The book brings a fresh vision to Marx, informed by some of the most important, but often marginalized thinkers out of the Third World, LGBTQ struggles, as well as progressive artists like Talib Kweli and The Coup. In fact, the integration of race, gender and nation status, along with class, is ...

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