Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Licensed larceny
Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services...
The Burning Forest
India's War Against the Maoists
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed
Over the past decade, the heavily forested, mineral-rich region of Bastar in central India has emerged as one...
by Walter Rodney
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution,...
Race to Revolution
The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined
and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution,
historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between
the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections
among slavery, Jim Crow, and...
The Psychopath Factory
How Capitalism Organizes Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy examines how the requirements, stimuli, affects and environments of work condition our empathy. In some cases, work calls for no empathy – characters who don’t blink or flinch in the face of danger nor crack under pressure. In other cases,...
by Nicolas Walter, Natasha Walter
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
A concise introduction to the theories and practice of anarchism by the late Nicolas Walter, lifelong libertarian socialist and editor of the New Humanist for 10 years. Introduced by Nicolas’s daughter, Natasha, ‘About Anarchism’ neatly summarises what anarchists believe, how they differ, what...
May 68' - A Compendium
Situationist reflections on the uprisings in France, May 1968
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
As the 50th anniversary of the events of May 68’ passes, it leaves a familiar, image heavy trail in it’s wake - young street fighting Parisians, earnest but chic looking Sorbonne occupiers, the iconic graffiti /posters : imagery all long since passed into the mythology of pop culture, endlessly...
The Prophet
The Life of Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that...
Hegemony And Socialist Strategy
Towards A Radical Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings,...
Adventures of a Cold War Fast-Jet Navigator
The Buccaneer Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
David Herriot served almost 40 years in the Royal Air Force as a navigator, first on the Buccaneer S2 and subsequently on the Tornado GR1. This volume recounts his early career operating the Buccaneer on three operational flying tours plus a tour as an instructor on the Operational Conversion Unit....
Transforming Classes
Socialist Register 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in London in 1964, SR continues their commitment to independent and thought-provoking...
Another Marx
Early Manuscripts to the International
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written. However, the international economic crisis of 2008 favoured a return to his analysis of capitalism, and recently published volumes of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe...
by Joseph H. Daves
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
From the Indonesian Republic’s onset, there has been some form of military participation in political life – the more significant and interesting aspect of the Indonesian Army’s distinctive history. Volume 2 in this three-volume set covers the assassination of army leaders on October 1, 1965,...
Khrushchev in the Kremlin
Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–64
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including...