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Welcome to History Is A Weapon's online Reader (Ver 2.0). If this is your first time visit, you can go check out the Starter page. Besides the many readings below, we offer a Blog, an Author list, a recommended reading list, a F.A.Q., a links page, and a Poster page. We'll be adding new stuff as we get around to it, like this resource page on Counter Recruitment. Contact information can be found on the F.A.Q. page.

A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook by James Boggs Die Nigger Die: A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown From The Narrative Of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass From A People's History of The United States by Howard Zinn The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson NEW From Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky From The Autobiography of Malcolm X Black History by Gil Scott-Heron Malcolm X on Afro-American History Worse Than Slavery by David M. Oshinsky An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis by James Baldwin Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation NEW by Angela Y. Davis The Convict Lease System by Frederick Douglass Slavery and Prison — Understanding the Connections by Kim Gilmore Lynch Law By Ida B. Wells The Demand For Order And The Birth Of Modern Policing by Kristian Williams Social Insecurity: The Transformation of American Criminal Justice, 1965-2000 by Anthony Platt Remembering the Real Dragon: An Interview with George Jackson An interview by Karen Wald Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson NEW Prison Nation by Sasha Abramsky The Social Functions of the Prisons in the United States NEW by Bettina Aptheker Crime As Social Control by Christian Parenti Lockdown America in 22 Minutes [Audio] by Christian Parenti Looking back: Radical Criminology and Social Movements by Gregory Shank The War on the People: An Interview with Christian Parenti by Suzi Weissman Prison Labor, Slavery & Capitalism in Historical Perspective by Stephen Hartnett Race, Prison, and Poverty by Paul Street The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodriguez Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Y. Davis Empire Abroad, Prisons At Home: Dark Connections by Paul Street Opening Up Borderland Studies: A Review of U.S.-Mexico Border Militarization Discourse by Jose Palafox Women in Prison: How It Is With Us NEW by Assata Shakur Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, 1832 "The Roosevelt Corollary" and "To Roosevelt" by Theodore Roosevelt and Rubin Dario "Why do the Yankees hate the Cuban Revolution?" by Fidel Castro "Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams: Message to the Tricontinental" by Che Guevara The Negro is the Race Oppressed by All the Imperialists by Leopold Senghor National Liberation and Culture by Amilcar Cabral The Weapon of Theory by Amilcar Cabral Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon Selections from Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam Nelson Mandela's statement at his trial and his speech given at his release African History in the Service of the Black Liberation by Walter Rodney George Jackson: Black Revolutionary By Walter Rodney Street Speech by Walter Rodney A Selection From Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual by Walter Rodney The Struggle Goes On by Walter Rodney Three chapters from Victor: An Unfinished Song by Joan Jara New Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies by Bartoleme de Las Casas Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti The New Pentagon Papers by Karen Kwiatkowski New US Military Bases: Side Effects Or Causes Of War? by Zoltan Grossman Letter to Jefferson by Benjamin Banneker Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston by Maria Stewart Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall "America" by James Monroe Whitfield The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth John Brown's Last Speech Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Wall Street Owns The Country by Mary Elizabeth Lease Speech to the Women's Christian Temperance Union by Mary Elizabeth Lease "The Negro Should Not Enter the Army" Statement of the Missionary Department of the Atlanta, Georgia, A.M.E. Church Plain Words Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol A selection from Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood The Thoughts of Muhammad Ali in Exile, c. 1967 A Selection of the Poetry of Langston Hughes Appeal to Adlai Stevenson by Robert Williams Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. The Revolution is At Hand A speech by John Lewis The Ballot or the Bullet A speech by Malcolm X A message to the Grassroots A speech by Malcolm X An End To History by Mario Savio The Basis of Black Power: a SNCC position paper Power Anywhere Where There's People A speech by Fred Hampton Ellen Willis Replies by Ellen Willis The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements by Huey Newton The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison NEW The War Prayer by Mark Twain Strike Against War by Helen Keller Eugene Debs' Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act War Is A Racket by Major General Smedley Butler "A War I Opposed And Despised" by Bill Clinton Attention All Military Personnel A pamphlet of the Vietnam Day Committee Excerpts from Scanlan's Guerrilla War in the U.S.A. January 1971 Issue NEW June Jordan Speaks Out Against The 1991 Gulf War "You Who are the Bureaucrats of Empire, Remember Who We Are" by Don Mitchell Propaganda by Edward Bernays (1928) New Federal Bureau of Intimidation by Howard Zinn "The Powell Memo" by Lewis Powell The Six Pamphlets of the White Rose Society "Action Will Be Taken": Left Anti-intellectualism and Its Discontents by Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian Parenti What Should White People Do? by Linda Martin Alcoff How to Master Secret Work by the Communist Party of South Africa The Freedom Schools: Concept And Organization by Staughton Lynd Black Panther Party Platform, Program, and Rules The Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society The Tyranny Of Structurelessness by Joreen The Radical Education Project: An Introduction And An Invitation Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement by Hyde Park Chapter, Chicago Women's Liberation Union The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: A Historical Study by A. Muhammad Ahmad The Movement Action Plan: A Strategic Framework Describing the Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements by Bill Moyer What Legacy from the Radical Internationalism of 1968? by Max Elbaum Strategizing For A Living Revolution by George Lakey Guerilla War in the United States, 1965-1970 A Sampling of U.S. Foreign Policy Our amnesia only serves the masters The Reason You Learned To Read