Pluto Press: 574 books
The Spirit of Marikana
The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
On 16th August 2012, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) in what has become known as the Marikana massacre. This attempt to drown independent working-class power in blood backfired and is now recognised...
Southern Insurgency
The Coming of the Global Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers’ self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions....
by Andy Merrifield
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.*BR**BR*From Haussmann's attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary...
Gramsci on Tahrir
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Coming in the wake of intense political and academic debate on the nature and development of the Arab Uprisings, Gramsci on Tahrir zeroes in on the complex dynamic of Egypt's revolution and counter-revolution. It shows how a Gramscian understanding of the revolutionary process provides a powerful...
Debt or Democracy
Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
This is a challenge to conventional thinking around money and the 'debt crisis'. By re-evaluating the source of money, Mary Mellor presents a radical alternative to austerity and privatisation: public wealth, or, money used for sustainability, sufficiency and social justice. *BR**BR*Debt or Democracy...
What We Are Fighting For
A Radical Collective Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2013* *BR**BR*From the pens of major figures of the anti-austerity movement, comes the first radical, collective manifesto of the new decade. *BR**BR*From participatory democracy to media reform, from direct action to communal living, What Are We Fighting...
Marx
The Alternative to Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates. Kieran Allen begins the task with an accessible and comprehensive look at the ideas of Karl Marx.*BR**BR*Dispensing with the dryness of traditional explanations...
Reclaiming the State
A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the neo-nationalist, anti-globalisation and anti-establishment backlash engulfing the West all involve a yearning for a relic of...
Bleakonomics
A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and Environmental Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.*BR**BR*Rob Larson holds mainstream economic theory up against the grim reality of a planet in meltdown. He looks at scientists’...
Tourism, Globalization and Development
Responsible Tourism Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2003
Tourism is booming world wide - it makes up a massive part of the global economy. Donald G. Reid's book focuses on tourism in developing and less-developed countries. He examines its social and environmental impact and offers a timely critical analysis of the part it plays in globalisation.*BR**BR*Many...
The Global Hunger Crisis
Tackling Food Insecurity in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
For billions across the world, the daily challenge is to find enough to eat to survive. Hunger is on the rise globally with more than 1.2 billion people suffering from food insecurity and poverty and rising food prices increasingly jeopardising access to food. But what are the causes for global hunger?...
Shut Down the Business School
What's Wrong with Management Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Business schools are institutions which, a decade after the financial crash, continue to act as loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. In this lively and incendiary call to action, Martin Parker offers a simple message: shut down the business school.*BR**BR*Parker...
From the Local to the Global
Key Issues in Development Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. Climate change has loomed large as a crisis for development practitioners and environmentalists, affecting the most vulnerable in the Global South. The ongoing...
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty
Alternative Development and the Renewal of Peasant Societies Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads. This collection explores the multiplicity of problems faced by global family agricultures in the current neoliberal era. *BR**BR*The contributors, including include Samir Amin, Joao Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik,...