Welcome to the fourth and final installment of Ready for Revolution: A digital study guide to raise our collective consciousness. This is one of our favorite study areas because it offers methods of praxis: Lessons from Struggle. Below, you will find the study questions, recommendations, and a visual representation of the recs.
We urge you to continue your study beyond the suggestions we offered in this series. We also urge you to think of revolutionary consciousness as a constantly flowing stream that should be fed; we never stop learning, and there is no “end point” to our consciousness! We hope you pay particular attention to the final study question, a call to action to ask you to consider your role in our fight for liberation.
Study questions
- What are strengths of previous struggles? Weaknesses?
- How can we build off previous work in our current political moment?
- How can more people be brought into the struggle?
- What can I contribute to the struggle? How can I tap in?
Recommendations
Books
- Black Power – Kwame Ture
- Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing – Charisse Burden- Stelly and Jodi Dean
- Remaking Black Power – Ashley D Farmer
- Negroes With Guns – Robert Franklin Williams
- Revolutionary Suicide – Huey P Newton
- Hammer and Hoe – Robert Kelley
- Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning From Struggles For Socialism – Vijay Prashad
- Blood In My Eye – George Jackson
- Assata – Assata Shakur
- The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World – Walter Rodney
- An Enemy Such As This – David Corriera
- The Motorcycle Diaries – Che Guevera
- My People Shall Live – Leila Khaled
Essays/short works
- Communists and Black Freedom Movements in South Africa and the U.S. – Edward Johanningsmeier
- 3 Waves of Struggle – Abdul Alkalimat and Saladin Muhammad
- Anarchy Can’t fight Alone – Kuwasi Balagoon
- Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare – Kwame Nkrumah
- Guerrilla Warfare – Che Guevara
Other resources
- Cradle News (news publication)
- Friends of the Congo: The Congolese Struggle for Self Determination (Revolutionary Left Radio, podcast)
- Voices With Vision (Podcast)
- Horn of Africa Leftists (podcast)