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Ali's book is absolutely essential. In addition to the incredible detail on the activities of heroic grassroots groups, his conclusion argues for listening to those voices - including in the face of media accounts which deny their existences - and for the need to look at the multiplicity of players involved. (sound familiar?) On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Prashad, Vijay via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Today,Tadween and War Resisters League present Ali Issa's Against All > Odds: voices of popular struggle in Iraq. When the tide seems to run > between the ISIS expansion and the al-Abadi government in Baghdad, what is > often forgotten is the upsurge during the US Occupation, sharply in 2011, > to forge a new Iraqi sensibility and foundation for politics. Ali collects > the voices of important political actors from across Iraq - people such as > Hashmeya Muhsin al-Saadawi (Electrical Utility Workers Union of Iraq) and > Yanar Mohammed (Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq), Nadia al-Baghdadi > (Save the Tigris and Marshes Campaign) and Akram Nadir (Kurdish > Construction Workers' Organisation). These are brave people in brave > organisations who fought hard to create a new kind of Iraq, and who > continue to work hard to define the future of their country. > Disclaimer: I wrote the foreword to the book. > > The book is available here: > http://tadweenpublishing.com/collections/books/products/pre-order-against-all-odds-voices-of-popular-struggle-in-iraq > . > > Alongside the book, I strongly recommend a long essay (in two parts) at > Jadaliyya by Sara Pursley that provides the intellectual defense for the > kind of work that these brave Iraqis pursue. They do not believe that Iraq > is a false idea, a creature of Sykes-Picot. Matters are more complex, as > this important intervention shows: > http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/21759/lines-drawn-on-an-empty-map_iraq%E2%80%99s-borders-and-the > . > > Essential reading. > > Warmly, Vijay. > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
