"If there is one word that defines the work and life of Aziz Choudry it is 'struggle'. What better way to honor our fallen comrade than to assemble stories of struggle powerful, incisive histories of the dispossessed, the colonized, the exploited, the oppressed, the insurgent laboring classes who believe another world is possible if we are willing to struggle."
Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, UCLA, USA.
"Today, after many decades, we see the growth of a new mood in the Global South. This mood, however, is not the same as a spirit. It is merely a hint of a new possibility. We have to study this mood and understand it to see its democratic possibilities. Aziz Choudry (1966-2021) had a way of learning things quickly and then conveying them with clarity. He would have hated a grave. It had a finality that was against his optimism. This collection is the best way to honour his legacy. It is an opening to struggles, to more struggles, to the socialism that he worked his life to build."
Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations and Executive Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
"This book is a testament to the collective power of Indigenous, migrant, and peasant movements to change the international political horizon. Analyzing the activism of peoples' movements contesting the catastrophic power of colonial-capitalism around the world, this collection offers an inspiring vision for a just and humanizing world."
Sunera Thobani, author of Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada, University of British Colombia, Canada.
"An extraordinary collection of essays in memory of Dr. Aziz Choudry and a powerful testament to his seminal work on social movements as instructive sites of knowledge production. A gem of an archive of the lessons we need to learn from contemporary struggles in Africa, Asia, and the Americas."
Sangeeta Kamat, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and author of Development Hegemony: NGOs and the State in India.
"This eclectic collection of case studies and reflections revisits core lessons from Aziz Choudrys life and work, while adding meaning from contributors' specific geographic/movement locations and building resistance to colonising capitalism. This book will raise your spirits, stimulate your thinking, and send you back into the struggle with renewed energy."
Bob Boughton, University of New England, Australia and author of Adult Literacy, Land Rights and Self Determination.
"A remarkable tribute to Aziz Choudry, this is a collection of brilliant and insightful essays by activist-intellectuals on key communities that Aziz dedicated his life to migrants, peasants, and indigenous peoples."
Biju Mathews, author of Taxi Cabs and Capitalism in New York City, Rider University, USA.
"This book is a heart-warming and fitting tribute to our late friend and comrade Aziz Choudry. Reflecting the geographical breadth and depth of Azizs engagements with global struggles, the chapters move between critical and theoretical analysis and the grassroots insights of people on the ground. A must read."
Mario Novelli, University of Sussex, UK and author of Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-making in the Global South.
"This collection of essays is a powerful testament to the breadth and depth of Aziz Choudry's activism and research/education work. The thinking and relationships he inspired and nurtured live on!"
GRAIN, https://grain.org/
"This book is a superb resource combining deep analytical insights with an abiding commitment to a better world. Contesting Colonial Capitalism rigorously tracks the worldwide assaults on Indigenous peoples, peasants, and landless workers, Black women, and migrant laborers. More than this, however, it shows how all these groups are resisting colonial capitalism from India to Brazil, from the Philippines to Palestine, and beyond. What a stunning tribute to the scholarship and radical commitments of the late Aziz Choudry and to the dreams of all in the Americas, Africa, and Asia who insist that another world really is possible."
David McNally, Director, Project on Race and Capitalism, University of Houston, USA.
This powerful searing tribute to the brilliant and courageous Dr. Aziz Choudry, is a must-read and a much-needed call to action. Sharing lessons from myriad struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice, it quilts a blueprint for cross-border and cross-issue organizing to cement global solidarity for the dispossessed. It leaves you knowing that Another World is Possible."
Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute, USA https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/
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