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Quick! I need good non-fiction recommendations! My favourite bookstore has a sale/deal on.

It's World Of Books for all you UK based bears - second hand books for pretty cheap. Buy 3 get one free - not outrageous I know but I like an excuse to get some books.

Anyway, I'm looking for some good leftist non-fiction book recommendations, and I trust you lot the most. Ye've never let me down on books so far.

Bonus points if they're specifically focused on C.I.A/imperialist interventions or South America. I've already decided I'm going to buy Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad (unless one of y'all convinces me otherwise).

Cheers

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DoiDoi

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Washington Bullets is solid, go for it

Killing Hope by William Blum is great for CIA shit

MaoTheLawn

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aaaand it's in the shopping basket

JoeByeThen

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Washington Bullets is solid, go for it

It's great if you're a leftist but his refusal to cite anything makes it a no go on trying to get Libs to take it a seriously. sadness

Judge_Jury

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Wretched of the Earth slaps

If you want sartre-pipe to sell you on it, you're in luck

AcidMarxist

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Thus the day of magicians and fetishes will end; you will have to fight, or rot in concentration camps. This is the end of the dialectic; you condemn this war but do not yet dare to declare yourselves to be on the side of the Algerian fighters; never fear, you can count on the settlers and the hired soldiers; they’ll make you take the plunge. Then, perhaps, when your back is to the wall, you will let loose at last that new violence which is raised up in you by old, oft-repeated crimes. But, as they say, that’s another story: the history of mankind. The time is drawing near, I am sure, when we will join the ranks of those who make it.

~Some french guy

Dull_Juice

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THE ORIGIN OF CAPITALISM by ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD

Was one I caught someone recommending on here once and it's very good.

2Password2Remember

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ridiculously based book, meiksins wood is such a Chad

Death to America

Dull_Juice

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Yeah I really really enjoyed it. It isn't a hard read and filled in some of the areas I had questions about in the transition to capitalism

JoeByeThen

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Jakarta Method pairs nicely with Washington Bullets

Anything Parenti.

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano - Haven't read this yet, but I think it will be largely what you're looking for.

Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin

Red Hangover by Kristen Ghodsee

Anything Fanon; Wretched of the Earth. Black Skin, White Masks.

If you can find anything by Anna Louis Strong.

Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between The VAtican, The CIA, and the MAfia by PAul L. Williams

simply_surprise

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"Fidel Castro: In His Own Words"

MaoTheLawn

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got that bad boy already

simply_surprise

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Super rad

PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS

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A couple off the top of the dome

The Black Lamb and the Gray Falcon

Ten Days that Shook the World

Mythologies by barthes-cool

Dingus_Khan

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Ten Days is what I came to say as well, it's a real page turner