Book Covers Advertised by Rage Against the Machine

      The list of book titles that follow is advertised on Rage Against the Machine's pamphlets which accompany the band's 1996 CD's. (The album is called Evil Empire.) On the pamphlets there is a photograph that shows the books spread out and that allows one to read the titles from the book covers. Some editions and publishers that match the books shown in the photographs may not be the same as the editions or publishers given by the present web site below, but it is unlikely that significant changes were made. The phone numbers given for organizations below are given exactly as they appear on the pamphlets.


The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yoqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos Castenada, 1968, Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, New York.

Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism, edited by Sonia Kruks, Rayna Rapp, and Marilyn B. Young, 1989, Monthly Review Press, New York. The editors state in the introduction that the book's collection of documented essays give support for the idea that women should achieve "liberation" by joining in "revolutionary struggle" based on Marxist-Leninism or other socialism.

Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller, 1961, Grove Press, New York.

What Uncle Sam Really Wants, 1992, Noam Chomsky, Odonian Press, Berkeley CA. For a summary of the book go to the following link: A Summary of Chomsky's What Uncle Sam Really Wants.

Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII, William Blum.

Marxism and the Oppression of Women Toward a Unitary Theory, Lise Vogel, 1983, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ.

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, 1970, Coward-McCann, New York.

The Media Monoply, Ben H. Bagdikian, 4th Edition, 1992, Beacon Press, Boston. The author outlines the fact that much of the media has been merging into or has been bought up by huge corporations. For more about the book, go to the following link: A Brief Summary of Bagdikian's The Media Monopoly.

50 Ways to Fight Censorship and Important Facts to Know about the Censors, 1991, Dave Marsh, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York. The book is a field guide to fighting censorship which is directed mainly toward liberalism or far leftism, and the author focuses on examples of censorship of ideas on the left. For more on the book go to the following link: A Summary of David Marsh's Book about Censorship in the Media.

Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity, Michael A. Messner, 1992, Beacon Press, Boston.

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dover Thrift Editions, College.

The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell, 1971, L. Stuart, New York.

Hegemony and Revolution: A Study of Antonio Cramsci's Political and Cultural Theory, Walter L. Adamson, 1980, University of California Press, Berkeley.

Guerrilla Warfare, Che Guevarra, (copywright 1961 Monthly Review Press), 1969, Vintage Books, Random House, New York. Book is a field guide for waging a guerilla war. Prefatory note by I. F. Stone speaks of "Yanqui Imperialism." Guevarra begins with a victorious tone about communists winning in Cuba, and he describes tactics in detail. He speaks of "the oppressor" and of the communistic struggles in Russia and China.

Marx Engels Reader, Robert C. Tucker, W. W. Norton & Company Inc, NY, 1972. Over 600 pages of selected writings by Karl Marx and Fredereich Engels.

The Black Panthers Speak, edited by Philip S. Foner, 1970, Lippincott, Philadelphia.

Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas, John Ross, 1995, Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine.

Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty, 1995, Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine. For more about the book go to the following link: A Summary of Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty.

Democracy Is in the Streets: from Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, James Miller, 1987, Simon and Schuster, New York. For more about the book go to the following link: A Summary of Miller's Democracy Is in the Streets: from Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago.

FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting): (www.fair.org) New York City based organization looks for and campaigns against media bias against liberal concerns. Web site challenges Rush Limbaugh and uses alienating labels to describe him. Slants in favor of "Affirmative-Action" for women and minorities. Supports the idea that global warming is an imminent problem. (October 1998.)

Anti-Nazi League: PO Box 2566, London NH 2HG, England 171 924 0333. Anti-Nazi League's web site gives internet-address links to web sites that purport communism. (October 1998.)

Parents for Rock and Rap: PO Box 53, Libertyville IL 60048. Group that fights against censorship of music, and it was started by the mother of Rage Against the Machine's own Tom Morello. The group decries censorship of rap and rock music which promotes extreme leftism, but not disclosed is when the music calls for the killing of whites. Parents for Rock and Rap completely ignores the outright banning of music which promotes extreme rightism and which calls for the killing of non-whites or Jews.

Leonard Peltier and Leonard Peltier Defense Committee: Lawrence KS organization. 913-842-5774. (www.unicom.net/peltier/index.html, site not found on 10-22-98; http://members.xoom.com/freepeltier/, site found on 10-22-98.) Native American who was involved in shootout with federal agents in 1975 at Pine Ridge. One Indian and two agents were killed.

Refuse and Resist: 212-713-5657, (www.calyx.com/~refuse/statement4.html 10/22/98). Web site gave info for participants to organize in numerous rallies across the US in protest of police brutality. Links and support for pro-choice views, open immigration, anti-Nazism, and anti-fascism. (October 1998.)

National Commission for Democracy in Mexico: (915-532-8382, listed in liner notes, no longer a good number.) 213-254-9550, Los Angeles. Web site showed that the group was playing a film about the "Mexican Uprising." (October 1998.)

International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal: 215-476-8812, Philadelphia, (www.xs4all.nl\~tank\spg-l\mumia002.html.)

Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru: 415-252-5786, San Francisco. (www.csrp.org/index.html). Communist web site that outlines revolution. (10-22-98.)

Ejercito Zapatista Liberacion Nacional (EZLN): Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (www.ezln.org). Link for Mexican Exiles for Democracy.

Posted at http://home.att.net/~phosphor on August 13, 1999.

Last editing was posted September 1, 1999.

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