Communism category: 1567 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The complex trajectory of Europe after the 2008 global financial crisis, has led to the catastrophic failure of deep austerity measures that swept across the Union, and is reflected in the rise of some radical left parties such as SYRIZA as well as an unfortunate rise in far right and nationalist...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Multiculturalism has been one of the dominant concerns in political theory over the last decade. To date, this inquiry has been mostly informed by, or applied to, the Canadian, American, and increasingly, the European contexts. This volume explores for the first time how the Australian experience...
The Party Forever
Inside China's Modern Communist Elite
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A century after its underground beginnings, the Chinese Communist Party today exerts far-reaching control over every aspect of private life. Beyond its legendary control of the internet within China's borders, even seemingly non-political domains are subject to its authority: routine business deals...
Hong Kong in the Shadow of China
Living with the Leviathan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A close-up look at the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong in the Shadow of China is a reflection on the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong during which the Chinese government insisted on gradual movement toward electoral democracy and hundreds of thousands of protesters occupied...
Reluctant Exiles?
Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. This pronounced outflow of highly educated people (a "brain drain") is having a profound impact on destination areas, as well as on Hong Kong itself.
Plunder of the Commons
A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2019
'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian Eno
We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
As the party that championed trade union rights, the creation of the NHS and the establishment of a national minimum wage, Labour has played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Keir Hardie to Ed Miliband,...
by Mikhail Bakunin
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book is Bakunin's version of the split between himself and Karl Marx that took place in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Bauknin saw the schism between them arising out of different perceptions of the function of the state in the Socialist program. Specifically, Bakunin held that the International...
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...
by Lewis Goodall
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
A timely and provocative account of the fall of New Labour, the rise of Corbyn, and what it means for the left in Britain. ‘Lewis Goodall is one of the most exciting voices in British politics right now’ Emily Maitlis ‘Hugely illuminating, thought-provoking and moving in its seriousness and...
Licensed larceny
Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services...
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,...
Race to Revolution
The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined
and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution,
historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between
the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections
among slavery, Jim Crow, and...