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This is the first book (120pg) written by Sengalese communist Sembene Ousmane. He wrote it in 1956 in France, where he was working as a docker in Marseilles and was also actively involved with the CGT and the French Communist Party. This book is written against the strong and disgusting racism that the French directed against the "colonial" immigrants in France at that time (and of course this racism continues to this day), and the economic oppression of these immigrant workers which went hand in hand with it.

I'm a Lost Cause
by Mario Benedetti

An astute critic finally revealed
(I knew they'd find out someday)
that I'm partial in my fiction
and he urges me tangentially
to become neutral
like any self-respecting intellectual

I think he's right

I'm partial
of this there can be no doubt
moreover I'd say I'm hopelessly partial
a lost cause in the end
since no matter how hard I try
I'll never be able to be neutral

in various countries on this continent
distinguished specialists
have done the possible and the impossible