books by Ahmed Shawki (workers russia black)

books by Ahmed Shawki

books:

Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism

3 reviews
Anthony Arnove, Peter Binns, ...

Haymarket Books, 2003

Essential to understanding the USSR
This collection of essays is an excellent introduction to understanding two things about Russia: (1) the incredible accomplishments of the October 1917 revolution and (2) the degeneration that led to Stalinist dictatorship and why this degeneration occurred. The essays I'd recommend most highly are Ahmed Shawki's "80 Years Since The Russian Revolution" (for the accomplishments and why it should ...

Black Liberation and Socialism

6 reviews
Ahmed Shawki

Haymarket Books, 2006

Powerful and too the point
Ahmed Shawki's "Black liberation and Socialism" is one of the most powerful and easy to read books that I have read on the subject. His arguments are clear and his examples are powerful. He argues that to end racism ultimately it will take a multiracial working class movement fighting for a society free of poverty, racism, and exploitation i.e. socialism. His historical examples clearly ...