What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: A Guide for Activists

Serge, Victor

ISBN 10: 1920888179 / ISBN 13: 9781920888176

Published by Ocean Press, 2005

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Book is in like new condition with only potential shelf wear. No marking or highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: A Guide for Activists
• Publisher: Ocean Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1920888179
• ISBN 13: 9781920888176
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: like_new

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Synopsis

“Victor Serge is one of the unsung heroes of a corrupt century.”—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost

Serge’s exposé of the methods of surveillance and harassment of political activists by the czarist police reads like a spy thriller. But as Dalia Hashad points out in her introduction, this book will have a resonance with political activists today who face a new wave of repression under the Patriot Act and racial profiling in the name of the “war on terror.”

Victor Serge was born to Russian émigré parents in 1890. He wrote numerous novels, poems and political essays and was forced into exile for opposing Stalin’s rule.

Dalia Hashad is an ACLU organizer in New York for the Campaign Against Racial Profiling.

About the Author

Victor Serge was born to Russian émigré parents in Belgium in 1890. After five years imprisoned, he returned to revolutionary Russia but was later exiled for protesting against the purges. Writing numerous novels, poems, memoirs and political essays he prefigured Solzhenitzyn by decades, believing: "He who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice." Dalia Hashad is an ACLU organizer for the Campaign Against Racial Profiling (Arab, Muslim and South Asian Advocate)