Pluto Press: 574 books
Storming Heaven
Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
'The emergence of a new wave of anti-capitalist activism on the streets of Seattle, Prague and Genoa has been accompanied by a growing interest in "autonomist Marxism." Steve Wright’s study brilliantly illuminates the history, complexity and internal debates of this tradition ... A vital, lucid contribution...
Haiti's New Dictatorship
The Coup, the Earthquake and the UN Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
In 1804 Haiti became the world's first independent black Republic following a slave revolution. 200 years later, ravaged by colonialism and violence, it was placed under UN military occupation.
Haiti's New Dictatorship charts the country's recent history, from the 2004 coup against President...
Salvador Allende
Revolutionary Democrat
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
This is a political biography of one of the 20th centurys most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973.
Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through Allende's life and political project, answering...
Jewish History, Jewish Religion
The Weight of Three Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Israel Shahak was a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish Orthodoxy and Hebrew culture, he consistently opposed the expansion of the borders of Israel from 1967.
In this extraordinary and highly acclaimed...
Palestinians in Israel
Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official 'peace process' and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.What the Israeli right-wing calls 'the demographic problem' Ben White identifies as 'the democratic problem' which goes...
by David Randall
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is a new edition of the world's leading textbook on journalism. Translated into more than a dozen languages, David Randall's handbook is an invaluable guide to the 'universals' of good journalistic practice for professional and trainee journalists worldwide.Irrespective of language or culture, good...
The Political Economy of Development
The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Any student, academic or practitioner wanting to succeed in development studies, radical or mainstream, must understand the World Bank's role and the evolution of its thinking and activities. The Political Economy of Development provides tools for gaining this understanding and applies them across...
The Maoists in India
Tribals Under Siege
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The Maoists in India delves deep into one of the most intractable but under-reported insurgencies in the developing world the decades long battle between the Indian state and Maoist groups who control significant parts of tribal India.
Nirmalangshu Mukherji explains the devastating impact on...
Geopolitical Economy
After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Geopolitical Economy radically reinterprets the historical evolution of the world order, as a multi-polar world emerges from the dust of the financial and economic crisis.
Radhika Desai offers a radical critique of the theories of US hegemony, globalisation and empire which dominate academic...
The Fall of the US Empire
Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Whither the US empire? Despite Washington's military supremacy, its economic foundations have been weakening since the Vietnam war accelerated by the great recession and credit-rating downgrade and its global authority dented by the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan.In this accessible, punchy text,...
Crucible of Resistance
Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Syriza’s victory in the recent Greek general election has shaken the foundations of the Western political establishment and has given new hope to the millions suffering the austerity measures imposed by the European Troika. Many people are discussing how this has happened and what it is about Greece...
Green Alternatives to Globalisation
A Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
'Essential reading for anyone wanting to move beyond critiques of economic globalisation to coherent and credible alternatives.' Dame Anita Roddick DBE 'Woodin and Lucas set out an eloquent and passionate argument which not only challenges the convenient assumption that economic globlisation is inevitable,...
Struck Out
Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What Can be Done
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Every year, over a hundred thousand workers bring claims to an Employment Tribunal. The settling of disputes between employers and unions has been exchanged by many for individual litigation. In Struck Out, barrister David Renton gives a practical and critical guide to the system. In doing so he punctures...
When the State Fails
Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Compared with Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, the recent western intervention in Sierra Leone has been largely forgotten. When the State Fails rectifies this, providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of the intervention.The civil war in Sierra Leone began in 1991 and was declared officially over...