global liberation & histories

The Wounded World

W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

By: Chad L. Williams
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois’s reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I―and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writersWhen W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to “close ranks” and support the Allied cause in... Read more

The Case for Open Borders

By: John Washington
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, over 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we... Read more

How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?

Voices of Indian Political Prisoners

Outspoken by Pluto

By: Suchitra Vijayan & Francesca Recchia
Narrated by: Anu Anand, Sam Dastor, Sahera Chohan, Raj Ghatak & Seema Bowri
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Silencing and punishing critical voices is a project that lies at the heart of Narendra Modi's authoritarian regime in India. The BJP's political dream is clear: to achieve the ethno-nationalist aim of an exclusively 'Hindu' India, while targeting anyone who dares to question or dissent.In this unique book, Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia... Read more

White Malice

The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

By: Susan Williams
Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
Length: 21 hours 14 minutes

 A revelatory history of how post-colonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.
 
 In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah,... Read more

Mad World

The Politics of Mental Health

Outspoken by Pluto

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
Narrated by: Micha Frazer-Carroll
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Mental health affects us all, and yet it remains elusive as a concept.Does getting a diagnosis help or hinder it? How is mental well-being, which is often incredibly personal, driven by widespread societal suffering? Can it be a social construct and real at the same time?These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she... Read more

To Govern the Globe

World Orders and Catastrophic Change

By: Alfred W. McCoy
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders.During the long centuries of Iberian and British... Read more

Illegitimate Authority

Facing the Challenges of Our Time

By: Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

A wide-ranging and incisive collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, addressing the urgent questions of this tumultuous moment.



In these informative interviews, conducted for Truthout by C. J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky addresses the rapid deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. He examines the crumbling... Read more

We Don't Know Ourselves

A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
Length: 22 hours 10 minutes

In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society—perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history.

Born to a working-class family in the... Read more

The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion

By: Tansy E. Hoskins
Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

*Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism and climate crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins unpicks the threads of capitalist industry to reveal the truth about our clothes.Fashion... Read more

The Dope

The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

By: Benjamin T. Smith
Narrated by: John Curless
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, scholar Benjamin T. Smith
tells the real story of how and why this once-peaceful industry turned violent.... Read more

Central America's Forgotten History

Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

By: Aviva Chomsky
Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.

At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in... Read more

Struggle Makes Us Human

Learning from Movements for Socialism

By: Vijay Prashad
Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars.



Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organizer Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay Prashad shows that the path toward hope and liberation lies in looking closely at myriad,... Read more

Elite Capture

How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smth
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But the “identity politics” so compulsively referenced bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical... Read more

The Brutish Museums

The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

By: Dan Hicks
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020

'Essential' – Sunday Times

'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books

'A real game-changer'– Economist
Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of... Read more

Bland Fanatics

Liberals, The West, and the Afterlives of Empire

By: Pankaj Mishra
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

In America and in England, faltering economies at home and failed wars abroad have generated a political and intellectual hysteria. It is a derangement manifested in a number of ways: nostalgia for imperialism, xenophobic paranoia, and denunciations of an allegedly intolerant left. These symptoms can be found even among the most informed of... Read more

Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay

The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition

By: The Debt Collective
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Debtors have been mocked, scolded, and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration. We’ve been told there is no way to change an economy that pushes the majority of people into debt while a small minority hoard wealth and power.... Read more

Washington Bullets

A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations

By: Vijay Prashad
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair—a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call... Read more

King Leopold's Ghost

By: Adam Hochschild
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber. Outbound ships carried little more than soldiers and... Read more

How to Hide an Empire

A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

“Daniel Immerwahr dives into a more thorough history of the United States -- filling those holes glossed over by history books. Extending beyond the Mainland or "50 States" map, he brings many lost or shadowed histories into the light. Very good listen! Read more

Guantánamo Diary

By: Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantv°namo detainee.

Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantv°namo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge,... Read more