Kommúnistaávarpið
1.490 kr.Kommúnistaávarpið kom fyrst út á íslenzku árið 1924. Þessi þýðing var gerð 1949 og er nú birt með ítarlegum skýringum, upprunalegum inngangi Sverris Kristjánssonar sagnfræðings og nýjum eftir Pál Björnsson. Fullyrt er að saga mannsins sé í raun saga sífelldrar stéttabaráttu á milli kúgara og hinna kúguðu, á milli arðræninga og hinna arðrændu.
Borgarastéttin byggir völd sín átöfratækjum iðnbyltingarinnar með viðskiptaháttum hins frjálsa markaðar. Við slíkar aðstæður geisar farsótt offramleiðslunnar sem steypir þjóðfélögum í hverja kreppuna á fætur annarri. Skyndilega ríkir hungursneyð og stríð, og borgarastéttin kann engin ráð til að afstýra hinni síendurteknu vá verzlunarkreppunnar. Hugsjón kommúnismans er stéttlaust þjóðfélag sem byggist á jöfnuði allra manna.
Til þessa dags er kenningin umdeild og mun sennilega aldrei hverfa af sjónarsviði pólitískrar umræðu.
Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia
6.990 kr.What can you do when your country becomes a repressive authoritarian state?
2014: Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics. Russia invades Crimea. Putin is re-elected president. Several political prisoners are amnestied and released early from prison.
Maria Alyokhina is among them. She had spent two years in a penal colony after performing the punk prayer ‘Virgin Mary, Banish Putin’ with her friends in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. They had warned the rest of the world of the dangers of authoritarianism, but the Russia she finds when she gets out of prison is even more oppressive. What can you do, she asks, when your country has been seized by all-powerful men who are waging war against another country and their own citizens?
As Maria recounts her brave and colourful protests, we are drawn straight into the world of grassroots opposition and witness the absurd measures the Russian state takes to contain protest. And when the full-scale war against Ukraine starts and the Russian opposition is repeatedly silenced, Maria and her activist friends continue to resist despite the high stakes. They fight increasingly absurd cycles of detention and house arrest: sometimes with the smallest acts such as going for a walk or having a rainbow ice cream, until, faced with a new prison sentence, she escapes Russia in May 2022 dressed as a food delivery courier.
Her story, like her life, is fiercely courageous, darkly funny and highly inspiring to anyone who wants to stand up for the truth.
Nýja stjórnarskráin
2.690 kr.Nýja Íslenska stjórnarskráin – 2. útgáfa.
Líkt og fram kemur í formála bókarinnar hefur viðleitni til stjórnarskrárbreytinga einkennst af því að sniðganga vilja kjósenda og þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsluna um nýja stjórnarskrá 2012.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, forseti Íslands 1980-1996, ritar formálsorð þessarar fallegu bókar, sem hefur að geyma nýju stjórnarskrána ásamt ítarlegum sögulegum inngangi eftir Þorvald Gylfason prófessor emerítus.
Nýja stjórnarskráin var samþykkt í þjóðaratkvæðagreiðslu 20. október 2012 af yfirgnæfandi meirihluta kjósenda.
Bókin lætur ekki mikið yfir sér en lýsir þó afreki þjóðar, afreki sem almenningur á Íslandi vann í kjölfar áfalls sem hann varð fyrir árið 2008. Það á vel við að gefa þessa bók, bæði sjálfum sér og öðrum.
On Palestine
3.490 kr.Co-authored by two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, an indispensable book for understanding the situation in Gaza right now.
What is the future of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement directed at Israel? Which is more viable, the binational or one state solution? Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against the people of Palestine in this urgent and timely book, a sequel to their acclaimed Gaza in Crisis.
Road to October 7 : A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism
4.690 kr.In Road to October 7, Erik Skare argues that Palestinian Islamism is far more complex and dynamic than generally assumed. The phenomenon has continuously developed through disputes between moderates and hardliners. These struggles have largely been settled by external drivers – intra-Palestinian competition, Israeli violence and repression, or shifts in the regional power balance.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
3.990 kr.Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called ‘ethnic cleansing’. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population.
Það sem sannara reynist
1.990 kr.Eitt síðasta verkefni Svavars Gestssonar á löngum starfsferli var formennska í embættismannanefnd sem samdi um Icesave reikninga í Bretlandi og Hollandi eftir bankahrundið á Íslandi. Þeir samningar voru samþykkir á Alþingi og forseti Íslands undirritaði lögin. Bretar og Hollendingar höfnuðu hins vegar niðurstöðu Alþingis og fyrirvörum sem það hafði sett. Í framhaldi voru gerðir nýir samningar sem samþykktir voru á Alþingi en hafnað í þjóðaratkvæðagreiðslum 2010. Deilur um samningana urðu eldheitar og þar voru stór orð látin falla. Sumt forystufólk á pólitíska sviðinu sá í þeim tækifæri og kynti undir átökin. Í þessari bók rekur Svavar málið eins og það blasti við honum.
Can Socialists be Happy?
2.490 kr.No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present one.
Unfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, George Orwell’s essays are masterpieces of plain English prose. This stirring new collection brings together his most cherished pieces with lesser-known gems, ranging over everything from tree planting to living with the atom bomb, sleeping rough to the perils of getting what you want in politics.
