Theory

Essays, Interviews & Talks

• The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx, 1851
• Some aspects of the Southern question, by Antonio Gramsci, 1926
• Extract from ‘A Seventh Man’ in Race & Class by John Berger, 1975
• The debt crisis, Africa and the new enclosures, Silvia Federici, 2000
• Shall We Leave it to the Experts? by Arundhati Roy, 2002
• Tresspass At Will: Squatting as Direct Action, Human Rights & Justified Theft by Erin Wiegand, 2002
• Another world is necessary by Nawal El Saadawi, 2003
• Ngicelwe ukuba ngikhulume ngokuthi “kungaliwa kanjani noMbuso?” Lo ngumbuzo onzulu, anginazo izimpendulo ezilula ngu-Arundhati Roy, 2003
• Towards a Post-Colonial Modernity, Partha Chatterjee interviewed by Nermeen Shaikh, 2004
• Haitian Inspiration by Peter Hallward, 2004 (Now available in isiXhosa as Umzekelo omulhe wase Haiti: ngeminyaka engamakhulu anambini wokuzimela kwaseHaiti)
• Purging the Poor by Naomi Klein, 2004
• That have not been asked: ten dispatches about endurance in face of walls by John Berger, 2005
• Survival and Existence in El Alto by Raul Zibechi, 2005
• The de Soto Delusion by John Gravois, 2005
• Fear and Money in Dubai by Mike Davis, 2006
• Ghettos & Anti-Ghettos: Anatomy of the New Urban Poverty, Interview with Loïc Wacquant, 2006
• Demolishing Delhi: World Class City in the Making by Amita Baviskar 2006
• Drowning by Numbers – The Non-Reproduction of New Orleans by Benedict Seymour, 2006
• The Politics of Disposability by Henry Giroux, 2006
• Hurricane Katrina and the Crisis of Black Politics by the editors of New Beginnings, 2007
• Squatters and the cities of tomorrow by Robert Neuwirth, 2007
• The routes and possibilities of a South – South subversive globalization: Africa and Brazil by Jacques Depelchin, 2007
• A tale of two towns by Paul Rogers, 2007
• Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution, by George Ciccariello-Maher, 2007
• “We Learn as we Go” – Zapatista women share their experiences by Hilary Klein, 2008
• Slums law based on flawed interpretation of UN goals, by Marie Huchzermeyer, 2008
• Venezuela From Below: An Inteview with George Ciccariello-Maher, by Jeffery Webber, 2008
• “We Need a Popular Discipline”: Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative Interview, Alain Badiou, 2008
• The New Ecology of War, Mike Davis interviewed by Mattias Hagberg, 2009
• Interview with Jacques Rancière by Lawrence Liang, 2009
• A Republic of Cities, by Gautam Bhan, 2010
• Eviction is for black women what incarceration is to black men, by Megan Cottrell, 2010
• The Politics of Dignity and the Politics of Poverty by John Holloway, 2010
• The Rationality of Rebellion, by Nigel Gibson, 2011
• The Weight of the Poor Cornel West interviews Frances Fox Piven, 2011
• Democracy as Community Life, Achille Mbembe, 2011

General Theory

• The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation, (Chapter 25 of Capital) by Karl Marx, 1867
• Power Corrupts the Best by Mikhail Bakunin, 1867
• Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy by Rosa Luxemburg, 1904
• The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions by Rosa Luxemburg, 1906
• The Problem of Dictatorship, by Rosa Luxemburg, 1918
• On Bureaucracy & Self-activity of The Masses by Aleksandra Kollontay, 1921
• The Prison Notebooks, by Antonio Gramsci, 1923-1939
• Anti-Semite & Jew by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943
• Politics and the English Language by George Orwell, 1946
• Intellectuals by Antonio Gramsci, in the Prison Notebooks, 1949
• Voluntarism and the Social Masses by Antonio Gramsci, in the Prison Notebooks, 1949
• Some Theoretical and Practical Aspects of “Economism” by Antonio Gramsci, in the Prison Notebooks, 1949
• On the Women Question by Raya Dunayevskaya, 1951
• North African Syndrome, by Frantz Fanon, 1952
• The Negro and Language, by Frantz Fanon, 1952
• Black Skin, White Masks, by Frantz Fanon, 1952
• The Fact of Blackness, by Frantz Fanon, 1952
• Discourse on Colonialism, by Aimé Césaire, 1955
• Letter to Maurice Thorez, by Aimé Césaire, 1956
• Every Cook Can Govern by C.L.R. James, 1956
• The Working Class and Organisation by Cornelius Castoriadis, 1959
• The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
• The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon, 1961
• Excepts from the Critique of Dialectical Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1960
• The Eye of the Needle: Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa, by Rick Turner, 1972
• Sex, Race and Class by Selma James, 1973
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney, 1973
• Dialectical Reason by Rick Turner, 1973
• South Africa: Capital Accumulation and Violence, by Martin Legassick, 1974
• Philosophy of Liberation by Enrique Dussel, 1980
• Preface to Proletarian Nights, by Jacques Ranciere, 1981
• Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis, 1981
• The Prose of Counter-Insurgency, Ranajit Guha, 1983
• Experiences of Democracy in Africa: Reflections on Practices of Communalist Palaver as a Method of Resolving Contradictions by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, 1985
• Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance by James C. Scott, 1985
• Weapons of the Weak, by James C. Scott, 1986
• Black Consciousness 1977-1987 by Nigel Gibson, 1987
• Can the Subaltern Speak? by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 1988
• The Underside of Modernity by Enrique Dussel, 1993
• From people’s politics to state politics: aspects of national liberation in South Africa 1984–1994, Michael Neocosmos, 1994
• An Unthinkable History, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1995
• Linking the Urban and Rural by Mahmood Mamdani, 1996
• Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience, by Ato Sekyi-Otu, 1996
• Disagreement: Politics & Philosophy by Jacques Rancière, 1995 (English translation 1999)
• Figures of the Thinkable (including Passion and Knowledge) by Cornelius Castoriadis, 1997 (English translation, 2005)
• Homer Sacer by Giorgio Agamben, 1998
• Listening to Africa, Misunderstanding and Misinterpreting Africa: Reformist Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women, by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome 1999
• Du Bois’s Humanistic Philosophy of Human Sciences by Lewis Gordon, 2000
• The Debt Crisis, Africa and the New Enclosures by Silvia Federici, 2001
• Black Capitalism, by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, 2001
• The Pitfalls of South Africa’s ‘Liberation’ by Nigel Gibson, 2001
• Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala South Africa and Porto Alegre by Patrick Heller, 2001
• Ten Thesis on Politics, by Jacques Rancière, 2001
• An Introduction to Dual Power Strategy, by Brian Dominick, 2002
• Change the World Without Taking Power by John Holloway, 2002
• Going in the Wrong Direction or Mephistopheles: Not Saint Francis of Assisi, John Holloway, 2002
• The Twilight of Vanguardism by David Graeber, 2003
• Fanon and the Possibility of Post-Colonial Critical Imagination by Ato Sekyi-Otu, 2003
• The Explosive Alliance by Richard Pithouse, 2004
• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber, 2004
• Infinite Thought by Alain Badiou, 2004
• Badiou’s Politics: Equality and Justice by Peter Hallward, 2004
• Dignity’s Revolt by John Holloway, 2005
• Twelve Theses on Changing the World without taking Power by John Holloway, 2005
• Indianismo and Marxism: The mismatch of two revolutionary rationales, by Álvaro García Linera, 2005
• Jacques Ranciere and the Subversion of Mastery by Peter Hallward, 2005
• New Introduction to Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like by Lewis Gordon, 2005
• The Not Yet Counter-Partisan by Grant Farred, 2005
• The Politics of Prescription by Peter Hallward, 2005
• Democratic Materialism and the Materialist Dialectic by Alain Badiou, 2005
• Trotsky, the Left Opposition and the Rise of Stalinism: Theory and Practice by John Eric Marot, 2006
• From ‘Foreign Natives’ to ‘Native Foreigners’: Explaining xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa by Michael Neocosmos, 2006
• Populations & Political Society, Partha Chatterjee, 2006
• Precarious Labour: A Feminist Viewpoint by Silvia Frederici, 2006
• Is Fanon Relevant? Translations, the postcolonial imagination and the second stage of total liberation by Nigel Gibson, 2006
• African-American Philosophy, Race and the Geography of Reason by Lewis Gordon, 2006
• What is the Left? by Alain Badiou, 2006
• Challenges of NGOisation, Richa Nagar & the Sangtin Writers, 2006
• Collaboration as Resistance? Reconsidering the processes, products, and possibilities of feminist oral history and ethnography, Koni Benson and Richa Nagar, 2006
• The Situation of Human Rights, Chapter One from Harri Englund’s Human Rights & the African Poor, 2006
• The Hidden Lessons of Civil EducationChapter Three from Harri Englund’s Human Rights & the African Poor, 2006
• Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction by Andy Merrifield, 2006
• Chapter Eight from Damming the Flood on NGOs in Haiti, Peter Hallward, 2007
• Selma James & the Wages for Housework Campaign by Shemon Salam, 2007
• Patricia Hill Colins: Intersecting Oppressions, 2007
• On the Coloniality of Being by Nelson Maldonado Torres, 2007
• Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa by Michael Neocosmos, 2007
• Through the Hellish Zone of Non-Being: Thinking Through Fanon, Disaster, and the Damned of the Earth by Lewis Gordon, 2007
• Against and Beyond the State, An Interview with John Holloway, 2007
• Learning to Walk: NGO Practice and the Possibility of Freedom by Mark Butler with Thulani Ndlazi, David Ntseng, Graham Philpott, and Nomusa Sokhela, August 2007
• Problematic People and Epistemic Decolonization, Lewis Gordon, 2007
• Beyond State Politics, by Brother Filippo Mondini, May 2008
• We Refugees, by Giorgio Agamben, 2008
• The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics, by Michael Neocosmos, 2008
• Politics at stake: a note on stakeholder analysis, by Mark Butler & David Ntseng, July 2008
• Noam Chomsky on Postmodernism, by Noam Chomsky, December 2008
• Preface to the new Hindi edition of Nights of Labour, by Jacques Ranciere, 2009
• Why Biko Wouldn’t Vote, by Andile Mngxitama, 2009
• Promissory Notes: From Crisis to Commons, Midnight Notes, 2009
• D/developments after the Meltdown, Gill Hart, 2009
• The Will of the People: Notes Towards a Dialectical Voluntarism by Peter Hallward, 2009
• The Revolutionary Potential of Social Scum, by Phil Dickens, 2010
• Sites, truths and the logics of worlds: Alain Badiou and human geography, Ian Shaw, 2010
• Communists without communism?, by Jacques Ranciere, 2010
• Marx at the Margins, by Kevin B. Anderson, 2010
• The Rationality of Rebellion, by Nigel Gibson, 2011
• Transition, Human Rights & Violence: Re-thinking a liberal political relationship in the African neo-colony, Michael Neocosmos, 2011
• Fanon and Political Will, by Peter Hallward, 2011
• Subalternities that Matter in Times of Crisis, Sharad Chari, 2011
• The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots & Uprisings, Alain Badiou, 2012
• “We are the people who do not count”: Thinking the disruption of the biopolitics of abandonment, by Anna Selmeczi, 2012
• Thought Amidst Waste, by Richard Pithouse, 2012

Theory & the City

• ‘The Great Towns’, from The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels, 1845
• ‘The Paris Commune’ from The Civil War in France by Karl Marx, 1871
• The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State by Mikhail Bakunin, 1871
• The Housing Question by Frederick Engels, 1872
• The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, 1935
• Building, Dwelling, Thinking by Martin Heidegger, 1951 (translated 1971)
• ‘The Paris Commune Illuminates and Deepens the Content of Capital’, Chapter 6 of Marxism & Freedom by Raya Dunayevskaya, 1958
• On Violence, by Frantz Fanon, 1961
• Theses on the Paris Commune by the Situationist International, 1962
• Urbanism and Community Planning by Kenneth Rexroth, 1964
• ‘On Violence’ from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, 1965 (Constance Farrington’s translation)
• ‘Territorial Domination’ chapter 7 from The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, 1967 (Kenn Knabb’s translation)
• Rationality in the Slum: An Essay on Interpretive Sociology, by Alejandro Portes,1972
• ‘Cities and Insurrections’, an excerpt from Revolutionaries by Eric Hobsbawm, 1973
• The Production of Space, by Henri Lefebvre, 1974
• The Myth of Marginality by Janice Perlman, 1976
• Housing by People by John Turner, 1976
• Spatial Deconcentration in Washington D.C. by the Midnight Notes Collective, 1981
• The Commune of Paris, 1871 by Manuel Castells, 1983
• Polluting the Body Politics: Race and Urban Location by David Theo Goldberg, 1993
• Un-civil Society: The politics of the ‘informal people’ by Asef Bayat, 1997
• From`Dangerous Classes’ to `Quiet Rebels’: Politics of the Urban Subaltern in the Global South by Asef Bayat, 2000
• Urban Development on the Basis of Autonomy – politico-philosophical and ethical framework for Urban Planning and Management by Marcello Lopez de Souza, 2000
• Logics of Urban Polarisation: the view from below by Loïc Wacquant, 2000
• The Wall & the Eye an interview with Eyal Weizman, 2002
• Are Indian Cities Becoming Bourgeois at Last?, Partha Chatterjee, 2002
• Towards a Dictatorship Over the Poor: Notes on the penalization of poverty in Brazil by Loïc Wacquant, 2003
• Logic of the Site by Alain Badiou, 2003
• The Right to the City, by David Harvey, 2003
• Law, Property, and the Geography of Violence: The Frontier, the Survey, and the Grid, by Nicholas Blomley, 2003
• No Trespassing! by Anders Corr, 2004
• Places of their Own: African-American Suburbanization in the Mid Twentieth Century by Andrew Wiese, 2004 (Excerpt on ‘urban renewal’ and ‘slum clearance’ as ethnic cleansing)
• Decivilizing and Demonizing: the social and symbolic remaking of the black ghetto by Loïc Wacquant, 2004
• The Topology of Being and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: Modernity, empire, coloniality by Nelson Maldonado Torres, 2004
• ‘The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics’ in Polemics, by Alain Badiou, 2006
• Together with the state, despite the state, against the state by Marcello Lopez de Souza, 2006
• Territorial Stigmatisation in the Age of Advanced Marginality, by Loïc Wacquant, 2007
• Fanon and Space: colonization, urbanization, and liberation from the colonial to the global city by Stephan Kipfer, 2007
• The Ignored Philosopher and Social Theorist: The Work of Henri Lefebvre by Stanley Aronowitz, Situations, 2007
• What is an African architecture?, by Jose Forjaz, Conference on African Architecture, Kumasi, Ghana, June 2007
• The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape by Slavoj Žižek, 2007
• Liberated Territories by Slavoj Žižek, 2007
• Grassroots Political Militants: Banlieusards and Politics by Emilio Quadrelli, 2007
• Lethal Theory by Eyal Weizman, 2007
• The Militarization of the World’s Urban Peripheries by Raúl Zibechi, 2008
• Surveilliance, the Law & the Rules by Martin Mongin, 2008
• The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou, 2008
• The Right to the City, by David Harvey, 2008
• Social Movements in the Face of Criminal Power, Marcelo Lopes de Souza, 2009
• Participatory Society: Urban Space & Freedom, by Chris Spannos, 2009
• Going Nowhere or Staying Put, Neil Gray, 2009
• Insurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South, by Faranak Miraftab, 2009
• Cities for people, not for profit—from a radical-libertarian and Latin American perspective by Marcelo Lopes de Souza, 2010
• Which right to which city? In defence of political-strategic clarity by Marcelo Lopes de Souza, 2010
• A (Very Short) Tale of Two Urban Forums by Marcelo Lopes de Souza, 2010
• Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism, by Ananya Roy, 2011
• The ‘Arab Spring’ and the city, by Marcelo Lopes de Souza & Barbara Lipietz, 2012
• Learning from urban revolt, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, 2012
• Rebel Cities, by David Harvey, 2012
• The Urban Peripheries? Counter-Powers from Below?, by Raul Zibechi, 2012

Theory & Land

• Land in South Africa: Gift for All or Commodity for the Few? by Mark Butler & Graham Philpott, 2004
• Concept Note on ‘Willing Buyer Willing Seller’ by Mark Butler, 2006
• The Food Crisis Is Not Just About Food, by Jacques Depelchin, 2008
• Rural poverty in the Eastern Cape Province: Legacy of apartheid or consequence of contemporary segregationism?, by Ashley Westaway, 2012

Theory & Education

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire, 1968
• The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, by Jacques Rancière, 1981

Theology

• The Gospel of Matthew, c100
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, 1963
• A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King, 1967
• Archbishop Romero’s Pastoral Letters, 1977-1979.
• The Kairos Document, 1985
• Liberation versus Submission, Jean-Pierre Cloutier, 1987
• In the Parish of the Poor, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 1990
• Remebering the Poor, Gustavo Gutiérrez, 2003
• Black Liberation Theology (audio), James Cone, 2008
• Introduction to A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, by the Poverty Initiative, 2009
• Gustavo Gutierrez and the preferential option for the poor, 2011

David Harvey’s Organising for the Anti-Capitalist Transition and Responses in Interface, 2010

• Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition, David Harvey
• A new and unsettling force: the strategic relevance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, Willie Baptist
• “The interests of the movement as a whole”: response to David Harvey, Laurence Cox,
• Educating resistance, Anna Selmeczi
• Which right to which city? In defence of political-strategic clarity, Marcelo Lopes de Souza

Books on Poor People’s Movements (& other forms of struggle) Around the World

• Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, by Frances Fox Piven & Richard Cloward, 1979
• Street Politics: Poor people’s Movements in Iran, by Asef Bayet, 1997
• City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty, Ananya Roy, 2003
• Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica, Obika Grey, 2004
• The Politics of the Governed, by Partha Chatterjee, 2004
• The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents’ Activism in Chicago Public Housing, by Roberta Feldman & Susan Stall, 2004
• Class, culture and conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937, Chris Ealham, 2004
• Political Life in Cairo’s New Quarters, by Salwa Ismail, 2006
• Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces, by Raúl Zibechi, 2010
• Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia, by Jeffery Webber, 2011

Also see

• Feminist Theory
• LibCom.Org Library
• Marxists Internet Archive Library
• Midnight Notes
• Women’s Liberation Archive
• The New AAAARG.ORG
• Roundtable: Research Architecture
• Liberation Theology
• The Radical eBook Archive