In this episode of the Left POCket Project Podcast, Richard and I have our third #ReadingRevolution discussion, this time about Brazilian Communist revolutionary Carlos Marighella’s 1969 work The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla, the place of violence in anti-authoritarian movements, and the contemporary application of radical political measures.

Full Text (in English): https://t.co/67jJrv7Jnd

Suggested Readings & Resources:

Marighella (documentary, in Portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2Rt1-e8G8

Various – History of Marxism in Brazil (6 volume series, in Portuguese)
http://www.anitagaribaldi.com.br/produtos/644/livros/socialismo-e-marxismo/colecao-historia-do-marxismo-no-brasil.html

James N. Green – We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States
https://www.amazon.com/Cannot-Remain-Silent-Dictatorship-Perspectives/dp/0822347350/ref=pd_sim_14_10?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822347350&pd_rd_r=f6b7dcbf-7096-11e8-a5fb-5d5816128136&pd_rd_w=01Pqc&pd_rd_wg=OyvYF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=7967298517161621930&pf_rd_r=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W

Victoria Langland - Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil
https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Flowers-Movements-Remembering-Military/dp/0822353121/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529065540&sr=1-1&keywords=victoria+langland+speaking+of+flowers

Thomas Skidmore – The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Military-Rule-Brazil-1964-1985/dp/0195063163

Maria Helena Moreira Alves - State and Opposition in Military Brazil
https://www.amazon.com/Opposition-Military-Brazil-American-Monographs/dp/0292776179/ref=pd_sim_14_7?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0292776179&pd_rd_r=f6b7dcbf-7096-11e8-a5fb-5d5816128136&pd_rd_w=01Pqc&pd_rd_wg=OyvYF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=7967298517161621930&pf_rd_r=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=8B182QB3WPHHFKC5QN9W

Various - On Violence
(selected essays by thinkers like Malcolm X, MLK, Hannah Arendt, Marx, and many others)
https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Reader-Bruce-B-Lawrence/dp/082233769X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529065571&sr=1-4&keywords=on+violence

Angela Davis – 1972 Interview (Clip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBqyBE1Ppw

Books Referenced