Pluto Press: 574 books
by Enzo Traverso
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Jewish modernity flourished between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, and its intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy continues to dazzle us. In this provocative new book, however, Enzo Traverso argues powerfully that Jewish modernity has exhausted itself. Previously a...
Cults, Martyrs and Good Samaritans
Religion in Contemporary English Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.*BR**BR*From the paternalistic Christianity used to justify ever-intensifiying neoliberalism, to the ethnonationalist and economic protectionist Christianity...
Losing Control
Global Security in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
When Losing Control was first published a decade ago it was years ahead of its time. Its argument was simple - the real causes of global insecurity were the widening socio-economic divide, global marginalisation and environmental limitations, especially climate change and conflict over energy resources....
Popular Resistance in Palestine
A History of Hope and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Armed resistance, suicide bombings, and rocket attacks, populate the Western media's depiction of Palestinian resistance. Synthesising data from hundreds of original sources, Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh provides the most comprehensive study of the always creative, often peaceful, civil resistance in Palestine.*BR**BR*Successes,...
The Secure and the Dispossessed
How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
While the world’s scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the unfolding impacts of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but challenges and opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from ‘climate refugees’,...
The Last Drop
The Politics of Water
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the water industry are testimony to how high the stakes are - by 2012 it had...
Ecocide
A Short History of the Mass Extinction of Species
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2002
We live in an age of ecocide. Changes of enormous ecological significance are occurring on our planet - the ozone layer is beginning to disintegrate. Since 1970 the world's forests have almost halved. A quarter of the world's fish have been depleted.*BR**BR*70% of biologists believe the world is now...
Faith and Resistance
The Politics of Love and War in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world? Exploring the rise of Islamic activism in Lebanon and the Middle East, and drawing transnational parallels with other revolutionary religious struggles in Latin America and South Africa, Sarah Marusek offers a timely analysis of the social...
Brazil
Neoliberalism versus Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has...
At the Heart of the State
The Moral World of Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
The state is often regarded as an abstract and neutral bureaucratic entity. Against this common sense idea, At the Heart of the State argues that it is also a concrete and situated reality, embodied in the work of its agents and inscribed in the issues of its time.
The result of a five-year...
by William A. Pelz
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget.
Europe provided the perfect conditions for a great number...
Postcolonial France
Race, Islam, and the Future of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. This book explores the dynamics and dilemmas of the present moment of crisis and hope in France, through an exploration of recent moral panics.*BR**BR*Taking stock of the tensions as they have...
Storming Heaven - Second Edition
Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or ‘operaismo’, which includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass...
Long Road to Harpers Ferry
The Rise of the First American Left
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed slave revolt of Harpers Ferry in 1859.*BR**BR*This book contains new and fascinating insights into...