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Mujer Libre
29th November 2006, 23:27
Okay, the old sticky was a bit messy, so I've decided to reorder the links from that thread, and add a few to make this snazzy new list.

Also, if people have links to any resources that they want to share, feel free to PM me and I'll add them to the list. This goes especially for rare texts and topics that are underrepresented on this list.

General Fiction and Non-Fiction
Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page)
The Online Book Page (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/)
E-texts from Adelaide University (http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/)
Great Books Index (http://books.mirror.org/)
Bibliomania (http://www.bibliomania.com/)
Bartleby (http://www.bartleby.com/index.html)
Athena (http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/author_a.html)
SovLit.com (Soviet literature, fiction and non-fiction) (http://www.sovlit.com/)
Bookchan (http://anonym.to/?http://www.anonib.com/bookchan)
Gigapedia (http://anonym.to/?http://gigapedia.org/) (Free registration to access the download links in the 'comments' page for each book)
The Literature Network (http://www.online-literature.com/)
http://www.ebookee.com/

General Fiction
Literature.org (http://www.literature.org/authors/)
The Literature of Marxism (http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/index.htm)
Lockpick Pornography (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.lockpickbook.net/)

Kafka
Kafka's short works (http://www.mala.bc.ca/%7Ejohnstoi/kafka/kafkatofc.htm)

Orwell
Fiction and essays by George Orwell (http://www.george-orwell.org/)

Graphic Novels
The Red Star (torrent) (http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/627635/The_Red_Star)
V For Vendetta (torrent) (http://www.mininova.org/tor/279952)
V For Vendetta non-torrent (http://www.quriousminds.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=408)

Non-Fiction
Note: For general non-fiction see the first section- "General fiction and non-fiction."

Anarchism
Black Market Press (http://blackmarketpress.net/info_05.htm)
Infoshop Library (http://www.infoshop.org/library/index.php/Main_Page)
Zabalaza.Net, with in-depth analysis, (http://www.zabalaza.net/index02.htm) the Zabalaza journal (http://www.zabalaza.net/zab_paper.htm) and pamphlets and transcripts. (http://www.zabalaza.net/leaflets&talks.htm)
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/goldman/ME/me.html - The Mother Earth Archive

Feminism
Feminist Bibliographies (http://www.pinn.net/%7Esunshine/biblio/biblio.html)
Digital Book Index- Feminism (http://www.digitalbookindex.com/_search/search010womenfeminisma.asp)

History
Digital Imaging South Africa (http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/disaind.htm)

Marxism
Marxist Internet Archive (http://www.marxists.org/)
The Communist Manifesto (audio book, torrent) (http://www.mininova.org/tor/200601)
Marx2Mao (http://anonym.to/?http://marx2mao.com/)
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/ (http://anonym.to/?%5Burl)
http://www.mltranslations.org/ (http://anonym.to/?%5Burl)
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php%3Ftitle=%26author=marx%26status=all%26a ction=Search
Progress Publishers (http://www.leninist.biz/en/HTML)

Philosophy
Kant on the Web (http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/%7Eppp/K2texts.html)
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/index.htm]Hegel (http://anonym.to/?%5Burl) archive at marxists.org[/url]
Political works of Jean Jacques Rousseau (http://www.constitution.org/jjr/jjr.htm)

Religion
International School of Theology Cyber-Library (http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/title.html)

Science
Medical Heaven (http://www.medicalheaven.com/) (the site is down at the moment)

Enjoy- and remember to let me know if you want anything added to the list. :)

Updated 24/10/2008

postmodern-jellybelly
8th August 2007, 23:21
Bookchan (http://www.anonib.com/bookchan)

Usually, if you ask, someone has it.
Communist Manifesto and the Little Red Book is here.

Black Dagger
4th November 2007, 05:21
http://gigapedia.org/

Site presents itself as being a hub for book reviews etc.- but if you register an account (free) - you can view the comments section for each book entry- and thus access links to download each book!

There's heaps of textbooks on there as well, in a wide range of categories - all of which would cost serious $$$ So save yourselves some money!

Mujer Libre
4th November 2007, 09:56
Updated the original post to include the latest additions- as well as free medical textbooks- yay! Keep 'em coming peoples!

ellipsis
4th November 2007, 14:45
also Google Books (http://books.google.com) has a good amount of full text books, as well as partial previews of others.

Mujer Libre
17th January 2008, 04:35
Edited to include the Mother Earth archive.

abbielives!
24th January 2008, 22:37
http://www.spunk.org/
http://www.anarchyisorder.org/CD4%20Contents.htm
http://libcom.org/library
http://www.zmag.org/AWatch/awatch.htm

Mujer Libre
17th April 2008, 12:30
Updated.

al8
30th April 2008, 17:50
I direct comrades to a wonderful recource. An initiative by people to turn texts with expired copyrights into audio-books downloadable free of charge; http://librivox.org

You can even find books such as Marx's Wage-Labor and Capital (http://librivox.org/wage-labour-and-capital-by-marx-karl/)

ManyAntsDefeatSpiders
1st May 2008, 13:43
I direct comrades to a wonderful recource. An initiative by people to turn texts with expired copyrights into audio-books downloadable free of charge; librivox.org

You can even find books such as Marx's Wage-Labor and Capital

Oh that will be very useful. :)

The Black Market Press, Bookchan and Digital Book Index- Feminism links are broken by the way. :crying:

ManyAntsDefeatSpiders
2nd May 2008, 14:47
The CWLU Historical Archive (http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/archive.html) is a good feminist resource. :)

cleef
17th October 2008, 13:37
V for vendetta is quality...shame its a torrent link as not everyone uses them...in the process of upping it in PDF format to rapidshare etc. :cool:

Pawn Power
31st March 2009, 14:57
Scribd (http://www.scribd.com/)

Asoka89
10th June 2009, 03:31
They limit you to downloading a few of the books per week, after which you can download again.

And the downloads are held off site via uploaders and torrents so I'm not directly linking to a piracy site (I've read rules and know copyright law). Even if they did directly host their clever limit on downloads makes it like a library where you can "rent" books digitally for the week, many of them are out of copyright or print anyway.

Definately my new favorite site on the internets, let's see how long it stays up:

http://radicalebooks.blogspot.com

Cymru
11th June 2009, 20:40
Nice one mate

Cymru
11th June 2009, 20:48
I just downloaded the Orwell collection and all the books are in notepad file :(

Asoka89
12th June 2009, 00:33
yeah almost all the books are pdf, but a few of the old ones are in .txt. I just uploaded them all to an ebook reader ( got my friends for 100 bucks or so ).

Cymru
12th June 2009, 20:41
yeah almost all the books are pdf, but a few of the old ones are in .txt. I just uploaded them all to an ebook reader ( got my friends for 100 bucks or so ).

Do the .txt files read on an e-reader?

Asoka89
12th June 2009, 20:46
Yup

bellyscratch
17th June 2009, 14:49
Just made a thread (http://www.revleft.com/vb/reading-left-t111162/index.html) about this, so I'll post it here too
http://www.readingfromtheleft.com/

Red Saxon
22nd December 2009, 05:05
So I decided to make a community effort to make an online library of sorts on topics regarding leftist politics, history, ect. The site is temporarily located on the free Weebly service, but I'm building a new site as we speak with CSS and AJAX that'll I host on my server when it's finished. I just want some advice/comments on what you all think of it and the idea in general.

The Idler
22nd December 2009, 19:14
Is it reinventing the wheel? Why not contribute to MIA or Gutenberg?

Red Saxon
23rd December 2009, 03:59
Is it reinventing the wheel? Why not contribute to MIA or Gutenberg?I got the idea because I was always tired of searching through those archives for specific material.

ellipsis
23rd December 2009, 21:44
uh link? or are you asking for help?

Drace
25th December 2009, 05:04
I still doubt anyone is going to be able to open up ePub files...

Sean
25th December 2009, 05:15
I've wanted to do this for a long while. I've suggested a torrent so we can add stuff not covered by gutenberg. DjVu is an awesome format, its as clean as pdf but much smaller in size like 1/5th.

Drace
25th December 2009, 05:42
Pdf is small as is.

Red Saxon
26th December 2009, 21:25
So I found an already well established Anarchist Library, so I'm just going to contribute to that.

Now that I think about it, it would take absolutely forever to upload all the leftist works.

autonomous bomb thrower
11th September 2011, 21:50
I have found this book to be very helpful in underatanding guerrilla warfare and the application of its tactics. It gives accounts of mujahideen fighting the soviet and dpr forces. The book provides maps and commentary on what went wrong and what went right in the tactics employed. It provides info on ambushes,raids,urban warfare, shelling etc. I recommend it to all who is interested in revolutionary warfare.

just search tribalanalysiscenter mujahideen tactics in the soviet afghan war pdf on google. It want let me post a link for some god damn reason. It should be the first link.

Robespierres Neck
20th March 2012, 11:51
I read an article online about a scan of Mengistu's memoirs of his rule in Ethiopia have surfaced around the web. Does anyone know where I can find this?

ComingUpForAir
24th August 2012, 06:39
Be nice if there were selections available from the Frankfurt School! Moar Marxist criticism please!!