There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
Paul Gilroy

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This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was first published in 1987. A brilliant and explosive exploration of racial discourses, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack provided a powerful new direction for race relations in Britain. Still dynamite today and as relevant as ever, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new introduction by the author.

The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon

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Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence, Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since. With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It was Fanon, himself a psychotherapist, who exposed the connection between colonial war and mental disease, who showed how the fight for freedom must be combined with building a national culture, and who showed the way ahead, through revolutionary violence, to socialism. Many of the great calls to arms from the era of decolonization are now purely of historical interest, yet this passionate analysis of the relations between the great powers and the Third World is just as illuminating about the world we live in today.

Assata
An Autobiography
Assata Shakur

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On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Shakur, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances before escaping out of the maximum security wing of the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey in 1979 and moving to Cuba. An amazing story of radicalisation and resistance.

All Things Censored
Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist, once hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as the 'Voice of the Voiceless'. After a controversial 1982 trial, he was sentenced to death for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer, and has been on Death Row ever since. All Things Censored contains over 90 pieces, most composed by Mumia with the cartridge of a ball-point pen (the only implement he is allowed) in his Death Row cell. In the book Mumia confronts his personal predicament while addressing issues that affect the nearly two million prison inmates in the US, and the American public in general, including censorship, police corruption, racism in the judicial system, and the rights of inmates. The title of this book alludes to the incidents that led Mumia first to be hired as an on-air columnist by National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and subsequently banned after pressure from law and order groups.

Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party
Kathleen Cleaver & George Katsiaficas (Eds)

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While the story of history may be most often defined through its winners, long forgotten, "defeated" movements and their ideals sometimes reemerge with renewed popularity, offering perhaps a better glimpse into society's future. This is the argument put forward by this collection of reflections from scholars and activists that reconsider the historical impact of the Black Panther Party (BPP)- often called the most significant revolutionary organization in the US in the later part of 20th-century. Compared with more entrenched organizations like the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) or the NAACP, the 14-year existence of the Black Panther Party seems brief indeed. Yet the BBP gave organizational expression to a tendency in the revolutionary movement that long predated it - the idea that the entire system is corrupt and needs to be reconstructed. Dozens of groups dedicated to revolutionary change appeared in the US in the 1960s, but only the BPP was able to develop a mass following and appeal to a broad constituency. These articles offer a recounting of the Party's tumultuous history and its reverberations through modern politics, including Chicano movements, international labor movements, and the campaign to free Mumia Abu Jumal. Counterbalancing hypercritical attacks and fawning glorifications, this anthology offers a reasoned perspective and features previously silenced voices.