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The Critical Legal Studies Movement
Another Time, A Greater Task
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice of legal analysis as institutional imagination, exploring, with the materials of the law, alternatives for society. The Critical Legal Studies Movement...
by Nanni Balestrini, Antonio Negri
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since...
Barbaric Sport
A Global Plague
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing broadside, assailing the ‘recent form of barbarism’ that is the global sporting event. Forget the Olympics and consider, under Perelman’s guidance, the ledger of inequities maintained by such supposedly harmless games.
They have...
Legislature by Lot
Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class
The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature...
Governing from the Skies
A Global History of Aerial Bombing
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing
“Tripoli, 1 November 1911: I decided that today I would try to drop bombs from the aeroplane … if I succeed I shall be happy to have been the first.”
—Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti
At its inception,...
Tackling Rugby
What Every Parent Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
On 29 January 2011, Benjamin Robinson was playing rugby for his school. During the match he sustained a concussion but was not taken off, and was allowed to continue with the game, in which he endured a second impact. When play ended, he collapsed, dying two days later as a result of his injuries.
Every...
Revolution in Our Lifetime
A Short History of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
A new history of the Black Panther Party, for the 50th anniversary of its founding
The Black Panther Party and the movement that spawned it is one of the most storied episodes in the history of the Black freedom struggle in America, and in the history of the American Left. And yet, argues the...
They Can't Represent Us!
Reinventing Democracy From Greece To Occupy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States ultimately share an agenda—to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary...
The Reform of Europe
A Political Guide to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A powerful and progressive programme for the Eurozone
Since 2010, the eurozone crisis has roiled the continent, creating political discord and generating a long period of economic stagnation. The cyclical recovery enjoyed in 2017 is no cause for complacency. It should act as an impetus to undertake...
Discovery of the World
A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Luciana Castellina is one of Italy’s most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper il manifesto. In this coming-of agememoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political awakening as a teenage girl in Fascist Italy—where she used to play tennis with Mussolini’s...
by Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A succinct introduction to the history of capitalism by the renowned political theorist.
In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years. Considering the way capitalism has changed and evolved...
Life Lessons
The Case for a National Education Service
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A radical agenda to make our education system fit for the twenty-first century
Our education system has been damaged by politicians who have arrogantly imposed a regime of market-driven reforms. It is time to reframe education as an essential public good, one arising from a hunger to find more...
by Costas Lapavitsas
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
First, there was the credit crunch, and governments around the world stepped in to bail out the banks. The sequel to that debacle is the sovereign debt crisis, which has hit the eurozone hard. The hour has come to pay the piper, and ordinary citizens across Europe are growing to realize that socialism...
Democracy or Bonapartism
Two Centuries of War on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2020
How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian rule
The history of the advent of universal suffrage is a fraught one. As late as the mid-twentieth century, it was still impeded by forms of censitary, racial and sexual discrimination, which proved especially stubborn in countries with the...