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Communal Luxury
The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century
Kristin Ross’s highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the...
Liberalism
A Counter-History
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery.
Narrating...
by Ron Ramdin
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century
In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black working class. From the development of a small black presence in the sixteenth century, through the colonial...
The BBC
Myth of a Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The BBC: the mouthpiece of the Establishment?
The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial, and the constant accusations of a liberal bias, the BBC has always sided with the elite. As...
by Richard Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A war that has killed over a million Iraqis was a ‘humanitarian intervention’, the US army is a force for liberation, and the main threat to world peace is posed by Islam.
Those are the arguments of a host of liberal commentators, ranging from Christopher Hitchens to Kanan Makiya, Michael...
Lights in the Distance
Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Immersive, engrossing report on the European refugee crisis
A mother puts her children into a refrigerator truck and asks, “What else could I do?” A runaway teenager comes of age on the streets, sleeping in abandoned buildings. A student leaves his war-ravaged country behind because he...
Politics in a Time of Crisis
Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A manifesto for a new, democratic left: a political programme poised to transform Europe
Since 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical left party in Spain that is reframing the nature of modern politics. Under his guidance, the party has unmasked the ideological motives behind European...
The End of the Revolution
China and the Limits of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The End of the Revolution shatters the myth that China’s recent history has been a miracle of progress. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the intellectual roots of his nation’s social and political problems, arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current...
Uprising in Pakistan
How to Bring Down a Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolution
Even as they were taking place, the events that shook Pakistan in 1968–69 were underplayed in the Western media. Following a long period of tumult, a radical coalition—led by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto—brought down the military regime of Field Marshal...
The Burning Forest
India's War Against the Maoists
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed
Over the past decade, the heavily forested, mineral-rich region of Bastar in central India has emerged as one...
by Walter Rodney
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution,...
Public Sphere and Experience
Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The “public sphere” is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge...
The Prophet
The Life of Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that...
Hegemony And Socialist Strategy
Towards A Radical Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings,...