Welcome to the Gowc’s new Book Club!
We hope to meet every month to look at works of fiction and non fiction, covering areas such as social justice, sustainability, anti racism, activism, local/global, human rights, plus lots more.
February’s Book “The New Rulers of the World” John Pilger
Join us on Tuesday 21st February at 8pm at the Centre, 76 Prospect Hill, Galway for some good discussion and a cup of tea!
Review from Amazon
“In this fully updated collection, Pilger reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto’s bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design to impose a ‘global economy’ on Asia. A million Indonesians died as the price for being the World Bank’s ‘model pupil’. Ina shocking chapter on Iraq, he allows us to understand the true nature of the West’s war against the people of that country. And he dissects, piece by piece, the propaganda of the ‘war on terror’ to expose its Orwellian truth. Finally, he looks behind the picture postcard of his homeland, Australia, to illuminate an enduring legacy of imperialism, the subjugation on the First Australians”.
November’s Book
“Clandestines” by Ramor Ryan.
To give you a taster of the book, this is a review as seen on AK Press.
“Ramor Ryan’s pirate journals read like Che’s “Motorcycle Diaries” infused with Hunter S. Thompson’s wit and flair for the impossible. A shrewd political thinker and philosopher, with a knack for ingratiating himself into the thick of precarious situations, Ryan has been there and lived to tell about it. As much an adventure story as an unofficial chronicle of modern global resistance movements, “Clandestines” spirits the reader into subterranean locales, carefully weaving the narrative through illicit encounters and public bacchanals. From the teeming squats of Berlin, to intrigue in the Zapatista Autonomous Zone, a Croatian Rainbow Gathering on the heels of the G8 protests in Genoa, mutiny on the high seas, the Quixotic ambitions of a Kurdish guerilla camp, the contradictions of Cuba, and the neo-liberal nightmare of post-war(s) Central America we see everywhere a world in flux, struggling to be reborn”.
Enjoy!
