Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Secrets and Lies in Vietnam
Spies, Intelligence and Covert Operations in the Vietnam Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure. An attempt to stem the spread of Soviet and Chinese influence, the conflict in practice created a chaotic state torn apart by espionage, terrorism and guerilla warfare. American troops quickly became embroiled in jungle...
Enemy Brothers
Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This examination of the historical relationship between Socialist and Communist parties in France, Italy, and Spain since 1920 contends that during the 1960s and 1970s these parties made critical alliance decisions that shaped their subsequent political fortunes. Enemy Brothers, based on field work...
by Edward Kissi
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia is the first comparative study of the Ethiopian and Cambodian revolutions of the early 1970s. One of the few comparative studies of genocide in the developing world, this book presents some of the key arguments in traditional genocide scholarship, but...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
What role does the protection of citizens abroad play in motivating states’ policies? How does citizenship of non-residents map onto domestic nation-building projects? And in what ways do extraterritorial citizenship issues differ from those related to diaspora and migration?
This volume...
by Mr Jayadeva Ranade
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The book examines how since his appointment to China’s three top posts – simultaneously for the first time in 30 years – Xi Jinping has deftly used ideology and nationalism to accumulate power and ensure the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s legitimacy and monopoly on power. Xi Jinping has imposed...
In Letters of Blood and Fire
Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Although information technology, immaterial production, financialization, and globalization have been trumpeted as inaugurating a new phase of capitalism that transcends its violent origins, this collection of essays by autonomist Marxist George Caffentzis argues that instead of being in a period...
Protest Movements and Parties of the Left
Affirming Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change? How, if at all, can movements and parties work together to challenge existing hierarchies? Is the political left witnessing a revival in contemporary politics?
This book highlights some of the key...
by Mr Jayadeva Ranade
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
There is a lot of information and data on the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in China’s official media, but information concerning the cadres who govern the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and some key aspects of China’s policies on Tibet is very scanty. When available, the information is piecemeal...
by Terry M. Perlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Anarchism—literally, a society without government—is less a political philosophy than it is a temperament. Anarchists are defiant people who seek to organize for the purpose of destroying organization. For its adherents, anarchism means a grand struggle against evil, a plea for the "new,"...
New Labour's Old Roots
Revisionist Thinkers in Labour's History: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The New Labour project was not conjured up out of thin air — it only looks that way because of the party's amnesia about the intellectual roots and political traditions which have guided it. This book provides extracts from fifteen thinkers and politicians located within the revisionist tradition as...
Politactics
Political Conversations from Everyday Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Technology, politics and entertainment have merged to the point of confusion. Politactics, the third book from the Everyday Analysis collective, is a set of conversations about how to sift through this organized but disordered mess and create a framework which could enact change against political and...
Magical Marxism
Subversive Politics and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2012* *BR**BR*Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition. *BR**BR*Magical Marxism demands something more of orthodox Marxism - something more interesting and liberating. It asks that we imagine a Marxism that moves beyond debates about...
The Management of Savagery
How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism
In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s...
A Protestant Church in Communist China
Moore Memorial Church Shanghai 1949–1989
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Freedom of religious belief is guaranteed under the constitution of the People’s Republic of China, but the degree to which this freedom is able to be exercised remains a highly controversial issue. Much scholarly attention has been given to persecuted underground groups such as Falungong, but one...