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📕 OUT NOW: Pan-Africanism and Communism Available for Order or In-Store Pickup Today!

We’re proud to announce a beautiful new edition of Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa, and the Diaspora, 1919–1939 by Hakim Adi — available now for your shelves and your study.

🌍 Pan-Africanism and Communism traces the development of the international movement for the liberation of Africa and the African diaspora while highlighting the often-overlooked role of the Communist International in advancing that struggle on a global scale. Through historic congresses, political organizing, and publications that uplifted African liberation movements, these efforts brought together leaders committed to defining and building Pan-Africanism in practice.

Crucially, the movement refused to separate the fight against white supremacy from the struggles against colonialism and capitalism. This book offers a powerful history of international solidarity and collective struggle — and an urgent lesson with deep relevance today.

⏳ Available now! Get your copy — along with Adi’s other title from 1804 Books, Pan-Africanism: A History — at https://t.co/HWqapg6HTG today.

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On June 4, the U.S. government imposed a new round of sanctions targeting Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his family, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), an important bridge to global solidarity movements, and other public institutions. These sanctions are not isolated actions; they are a deliberate escalation of U.S. hostility toward Cuba, advancing the same logic laid out in a 1960 State Department memo by Deputy Assistant Secretary Lester Mallory: to create hunger, desperation, and overthrow through economic strangulation. From the sanctions to Trump’s fuel blockade today, the goal remains unchanged: punish the Cuban people, chill international solidarity, and justify further aggression. Make no mistake: Trump and Rubio are laying the groundwork for an unprovoked attack. Stop the sanctions. End the blockade. No war on Cuba.

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📖 Come see us this week at 1804 Books at The People’s Forum! We’ve got a selection of new poetry and fiction titles, including the comprehensive and long-overdue collection Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez.

As Jayne Cortez was described by Amiri Baraka, she stood “in the grand tradition of revolutionary poets around the world.” A key figure in the Black Arts Movement and founder of the Watts Repertory Theater Company, Cortez used her poetry as a tool of resistance. This collection offers a rich introduction to her work and vision as a poet committed to confronting oppression and inspiring liberation.

Stop by and pick up a copy! 📚

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📕💡At 1804 Books at The People’s Forum, our staff and community are always reading, studying, and sharing ideas, and we want to bring all of you into the conversation.

Here’s Rachel recommending an integral and practical organizing tool and book, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for The United States, a book that isn’t just a critique of capitalism, but instead a complete step-by-step proposal for an entirely new system in the United States.

ℹ️ 🔗 You can pick up this title and more in-store Tuesday–Friday from 4 PM–9 PM and Saturdays from 10 AM–9PM, or online at https://t.co/HWqapg6a48.

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Tomorrow, May 28th marks the anniversary of the end of the Paris Commune — a revolutionary working-class government that ruled the city for 72 days before it was violently suppressed by the French army. It stands as a reminder that working people have always fought to govern themselves and build a new world. More than 150 years later, its lessons on internationalism, workers democracy, and revolutionary struggle remain urgent.

📖 To study its history and legacy, 1804 Books has copies of The Civil War in France & The Paris Commune available online and in-store!

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📖AVAILABLE NOW! 📖Readers are calling the new edition of PAN-AFRICANISM AND COMMUNISM “imperative reading,” a “crucial tool,” a “blueprint,” and more . . . now with an updated preface from author Hakim Adi! This book fills in a gap, uncovering the long-overlooked revolutionary alliance between African and Caribbean leaders and organizations and the Communist International.

🌍 PAN-AFRICANISM AND COMMUNISM charts the development of the Comintern’s approach to the question of African liberation and how their struggles were intertwined. As they gathered leaders in historic congresses and published newspapers to uplift the struggle of African people on the continent and the diaspora, they demonstrated a refusal to separate the fight against white supremacy from the fight against colonialism and capitalism. This book shows a history of what it was like to build solidarity, an urgent lesson that we can still draw much from today.

⏳ AVAILABLE NOW! Get yours (and Hakim’s other excellent book PAN-AFRICANISM: A HISTORY) at https://t.co/HWqapg6a48 today!

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Today we commemorate the birth of Ghassan Kanafani, who would be 90 years old. A revolutionary writer, journalist, and leading voice in the struggle for Palestinian liberation, Kanafani’s work gave powerful expression to displacement, resistance, and the enduring will of a people fighting for freedom. His stories and political writings remain foundational, shaping generations committed to justice and return.

At 1804 Books, we publish The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine and carry Men in the Sun along with other works by and about Kanafani, available both in-store and online. These texts honor his legacy and the broader history of the Palestinian struggle.

We remember him not only for what he wrote, but for the clarity, commitment, and vision he brought to the movement for national liberation, an enduring light in the ongoing fight for liberation.

🔗Order these books and other revolutionary study at https://t.co/HWqapg6a48 !

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This Thursday at 6:30pm, join us for the opening of Let Cuba Live, an exhibition bringing together artists who raise their voices in solidarity with the Cuban people at a critical moment.

RSVP at https://t.co/2PdQcZGtVp

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‼️ TONIGHT • Join us for session five of Hidden Histories of Rebellion in the U.S. Tonight's class, 🌾 "Rural Revolt Against War: The Green Corn Rebellion," will be taught by the Education Director here at The People's Forum, Layan Fuleihan!

ℹ️ In August 1917, hundreds of poor white, Black, Seminole, and Creek farmers in Oklahoma took up arms, refused the WWI draft as "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight," and planned to march on Washington to end American involvement in the war—an uprising that became known as the Green Corn Rebellion. Though the rebellion was crushed and over 450 were arrested, it stands as a powerful history of multiracial, class-based solidarity among the rural poor who recognized their shared enemy in capitalist exploitation and imperial war.

In this class, we'll explore the alliances between tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and Indigenous peoples, examining the radical traditions that flourished across the rural West and asking why these histories have been so deliberately buried.

📅 TONIGHT, Tues. Feb 24
🕡 6:30 PM ET
🛜🏠 Hybrid — In-person at The People's Forum, or online
🔗 Register at https://t.co/5N73UoMyyU

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‼️📕 AVAILABLE NOW: TRICONTINENTAL, HAVANA 1966! & don’t forget your companion TPF Tricontinental tee! Available in-store & online at https://t.co/HWqapg6a48!

This collection is historic! It is a book that every organizer, teacher, historian, and everyday person committed to reimagining the world we live in needs on their shelf. This collection is more urgent than ever at a moment when the solidarity and internationalism of oppressed people everywhere is crucial to the struggle for a world rid of fascist white supremacy, economic exploitation, and every form of everyday disrespect against our collective humanity!

The book brings together commitments, resolutions, speeches, photos, and ideas for the pathway forward—all born out of the monumental meeting of revolutionary delegates from Africa, Asia, and Latin America in the fertile meeting ground of Havana, Cuba, in 1966!

Today, as the world spirals into the disasters manufactured by capitalism, it is up to us to study and reflect on the past. We must look to the river of history—which charges forward toward a more just and humane world—and see what we have to learn and share together on the road to victory!

🔗 This book is necessary! This book needs to be alongside you, studied amongst friends and comrades! Get yours now!

[Yuri A. Gala López @y_gala_lopez]

En Nueva York tuvo lugar en @PeoplesForumNYC la presentación del libro “Tricontinental, La Habana 1966”, editado por Manolo De Los Santos y con prólogo de Vijay Prashad.

A nombre de @CUBAONU 🇨🇺 intervine en esta emotiva actividad moderada por Kate Gonzales, editora @1804Books.

[WasimSaid @wasimsaidharbid]

New review of my book
WITNESS TO THE HELLFIRE OF GENOCIDE

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This evening we held a historic book launch for Tricontinental, Havana 1966, beginning with a grounding from Yuri Gala Lopez of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations. The book, edited by Manolo De Los Santos with a foreword by Vijay Prashad, was discussed in conversation with Kate Gonzales, editor at @1804Books

Tricontinental triumphantly compiles the unrecorded and unsung documents of the 1966 meeting of revolutionary delegates from Africa, Asia, and Latin America in the heat of a transforming world for national and socialist liberation in Havana, Cuba. That historic gathering took place amidst the escalating violence of the Vietnam War, alongside liberation struggles sweeping across Africa, from Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde to Mozambique, Angola, and beyond. All the while, the United States was ramping up lethal aggression against decolonial movements worldwide, determined to crush the possibility of liberation wherever it emerged.

What made Havana 1966 so extraordinary was not only the moment itself, but the persistence it took to create a space where revolutionary ideas, strategy, and internationalist solidarity could be forged, despite differences, war, repression, and imperial retaliation. That insistence on gathering, thinking collectively, and building unity was not optional then, and it is not optional now.

Today, as exclusion, dispossession, and the tightening blockade against Cuba intensify, the lessons and documents of Tricontinental remind us that internationalism is not buried in the past. It is a living practice, and a vital tool for survival and liberation.

🔗📖 Buy the book now at https://t.co/m8TBRAJoWr or in-person at The People’s Forum!

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Congratulations to @manolo_realengo for the publication of his edited volume of speeches from the Tricontinental conference of 1966. Will be out soon from @1804Books, @inkanibooks, and @LeftWordBooks.
A collection that needs to be studied and digested.

[The People's Forum @PeoplesForumNYC]

📖Tricontinental, Havana 1966 LAUNCHES THIS WEDNESDAY • HARDCOVER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW VIA @1804Books!

ℹ️ Join editor Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad for the launch of Tricontinental, Havana 1966 on Wed, Feb. 11 at 6:30PM at The People’s Forum and online!

🔗RSVP: https://t.co/wHB1WafLor

Tricontinental brings together many of the monumental commitments that emerged from the Tricontinental conference, including speeches, resolutions, and never-before-seen photos from this historic meeting.

In 1966, revolutionary forces were on the offensive: the Vietnamese were bravely fighting the US military, South Africa was rising up against apartheid, Palestine was resisting Zionist colonization, among many other fronts of struggle. US imperialism, on the defensive, was wreaking havoc across the world—it became obvious that worldwide solidarity among revolutionary forces was a necessary step towards achieving total liberation. The Tricontinental was not only an acknowledgment of that fact, but a promise to make that solidarity a material reality. Decades later, US imperialism continues its assault on working and oppressed people across the world, and this conference provides us a glimpse into what is necessary to build true liberation today.

[Mary @maryturfah]

I reviewed @wasimsaidharbid's "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza," for @bookforum

"I didn't write this to make you cry," Said insists.
Instead, "I write this...to make you bear the responsibility of my perspective."

https://t.co/j7hnHnvCVp

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‼️🗯️ BLACK & RED BOOKS DAY 2026 • SAVE THE DATE 🗯️‼️

🗓️ Sat. Feb 21 • All Day Long!

Each year, The People’s Forum and thousands across the world commemorate Red Books Day, an international celebration of radical literature and political education, observed on or around February 21—the publication date of The Communist Manifesto. The day honors revolutionary texts that have inspired organizing and people’s movements around the world.

In 2026, we proudly celebrate Red Books Day alongside the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, bringing together two traditions of resistance and struggle. This year’s Black & Red Books Day centers Black revolutionaries and the radical writings that continue to shape global liberation movements.

Join us as we uplift revolutionary literature and recommit to the fight for the liberation of Black people and all oppressed peoples worldwide.

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TODAY MINNESOTA LEADS THE WAY! A historic general strike is unfolding across Minnesota RIGHT NOW. Workers are walking out, students are staying home, businesses are shut down and people are taking the streets.

People demand an end to ICE brutality and the raids terrorizing our communities and justice for all immigrants. We will continue demanding justice for Renée Nicole Good, killed on January 7th while defending her neighbors and all people killed while under ICE detention.

Minnesotans are providing an important example for the whole country: When they attack us and our communities, we fight back!

There are hundreds of solidarity actions happening across the country. In NYC, join us in Union Square at 4pm!

#GeneralStrike #JusticeForRenee #StopICETerror #Minnesota

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We stand with community and religious leaders Nekima Levy Armstrong, Chauntyll Allen, William Kelly, and all those who are being persecuted for standing up and organizing their communities against ICE terror and invasion. Their arrests today symbolize an attack on the growing movement of Minnesotans and people across the country calling to abolish ICE.

These arrests are a clear attempt to scare people away from their constitutional right to protest on the day before a statewide shutdown. But we know that the people of Minnesota and around the country will continue to stand up for justice against the Trump regime that sanctions ICE murder and attacks on our communities!

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As 2025 comes to a close, our fundraising efforts are more urgent than ever. Without donations—big and small—The People’s Forum is at risk. Your support will help us build a permanent home in NYC and sustain a space for political education, organizing, and culture. Your support is more than a donation; it’s a collective investment in the future of a movement in. struggle for a better world. If The People’s Forum has ever educated you, inspired you, or given you hope, now is the time to give back and help secure its future.

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