Pluto Press: 574 books
Frantz Fanon
Philosopher of the Barricades
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism. His legacy remains with us...
Out of the Frame
The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. *BR**BR*Growing up in a conventional Israeli community and influenced by the utopian visions of Theodor Herzl, Pappe was barely aware of the...
Ireland in the World Order
A History of Uneven Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
This history examines Ireland’s development from the medieval to the modern era, comparing its unique trajectory with that of England, Scotland and Wales. *BR**BR*Maurice Coakley focuses on key elements that contributed to Ireland’s development, examining its bloody and violent incorporation into...
by Neil Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This major new work of historical scholarship offers a groundbreaking reassessment of Scottish politics and society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century that is set to become a standard work on the subject. Neil Davidson argues that Scotland experienced a revolution during this period...
by Lindsey German
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at the remarkable impact of war on women in Britain. It shows how conflict has changed women's lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning. *BR**BR*Lindsey German, one of the UK's leading anti-war activists and...
The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan
Kurdistan, Woman's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence. *BR**BR*Abdullah Ocalan led the struggle for Kurdish liberation for more than 20 years until his capture...
Married to Another Man
Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2007
Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, 'beautiful, but married to another man'. By which they meant that, if a place was to be found for Israel in Palestine, where would the people of Palestine go? This is a dilemma that Israel has never been able to resolve.*BR**BR*No...
Israel and Palestine
Competing Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
This is a concise guide to the Israel-Palestine conflict. There are many different, competing histories of the conflict, however, this book collects those which are based on the most considered historical research.*BR**BR*The book covers key events in chronological order, in each case examining the...
Balfour's Shadow
A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This is the controversial history of the British government’s involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day. Written by the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, the Declaration stated ‘His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment...
Cracks in the Wall
Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet the Palestinian minimum, or the standards of...
Base Encounters
The US Armed Forces in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military installations have come under much scrutiny.*BR**BR*The Korean peninsula is one of the most heavily militarised regions in the world and the conflict between...
Global Matrix
Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2005
Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individual insecurities. This book takes a critical look at three key areas globalism, nationalism, and state-terror to confront common mythologies and identify...
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...
by Greg Philo, Mike Berry
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, More Bad News From Israel examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. *BR**BR*The book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine...