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Just a heads up with Settlers, it's a very good read and makes some very good arguments but it makes some scholarly errors. Don't take everything it says about history as gospel. All respect for J. Sakai, he was not an academic but he was organising since he was a teenager. I recommend checking out some of the other stuff he wrote cause he has a lot of interesting perspectives.
I would say once you're done with Settlers you wanna check out the stuff by the Black Panthers, a lot of whom were/are scholars. Angela Davis' "Women, Race and Class" is one I specifically always recommend. That's good for intersectionality and really good for where you're coming from geographically speaking.
Others have recommended Fanon, I will also do so. I also highly recommend Walter Rodney a Guyanese scholar who wrote some very accessible works in the 70s, mostly talking about his home country as well as the wider Caribbean and a lot about Africa. Some of his stuff here
A more recent book I recommend is "Red Star over the Third World" by Vijay Prashad. He's an Indian historian that's still active and has written a lot of good books in English. You can find a lot of the talks and interviews he's given on YouTube as well.
When I went to go find that last link I also found this depository of stuff) which has a lot of stuff I think that might interest you. Lots of Palestine stuff at the top and a lot more of the stuff you're asking for as you scroll down.
This one is quite interesting it's a book about the connections between the US black liberation movement and the Korean liberation movement, the internationalism practiced between the two groups who felt they were fighting the same enemy. Rest of the stuff on that site is really good as well.
Last thing I'll recommend is this book by a small, defunct British communist party on Trans issues from a left-wing perspective. It's mostly focused on debunking a lot of the classic transphobic arguments, including the ones you hear that are "rational" or "scientific".
Thank you