Pluto Press: 574 books
Burning Country
Syrians in Revolution and War
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a warzone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land.
Burning Country explores the horrific...
The Road to Al-Qaeda
The Story of Bin Laden's Right-Hand Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
The Road to Al-Qaeda is a controversial book. Written by an Egyptian human rights lawyer, it is the first English-language account of the development of tensions between violent and non-violent factions in radical Islamist movements, from the perspective of an insider. It is also a biography of one...
North Korea on the Brink
Struggle For Survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
North Korea's development and testing of nuclear weapons made headlines in the Western media, but is the country really a threat to the rest of the world? *BR**BR*This accessible introduction examines the country's history and focuses on whether the threat is realistic or exaggerated by the US in...
Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War
The West African National Secretariat, 1945-48
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
The West African National Secretariat (WANS) has almost been forgotten by history. A pan-Africanist movement founded in 1945 by Kwame Nkrumah and colleagues in London and France, WANS campaigned for independence and unity. Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast in late 1947. The colonial government accused...
Asians in Britain
400 Years of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2002
This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes, soldiers, professionals and entrepreneurs of...
Towards a Gay Communism
Elements of a Homosexual Critique
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory - now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation.*BR**BR*Among the most important works ever to address the relationship between homosexuality,...
Marxism and the History of Art
From William Morris to the New Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
'No other book has ever attempted this ambitious project with such care and intelligence. ... Important, timely, and provocative.'Professor Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh
'[This] could be a defining text.' Professor Paul Jaskot, De Paul University Chicago
This unique book...
The Ebb of the Pink Tide
The Decline of the Left in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Following the election of Hugo Chavez to the Venezuelan presidency, and the Cochabamba water wars, Latin American politics were radicalised and their governments populated with former activists and trade union leaders. In this book, renowned Latin Americanist Mike Gonzalez explores the course of the...
Wobblies of the World
A Global History of the IWW
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organising methods including direct-action and direct-democracy, it put power in the hands...
by Willie Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2000
This original study explores the development of the postmodern turn in history, brought on by the social, political and cultural changes of the 1970s and 1980s. Challenging notions of certainty and objectivity, postmodernism has questioned traditional models and methods in studying history. A timely...
The Roman Empire
Roots of Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Over a millennium after the end of its unrivalled dominance, the spectre of Rome figures highly in western culture. This book explores what the empire meant to its subjects.*BR**BR*The idea of Rome has long outlived the physical empire that gave it form, and now holds sway over vastly more people...
Unmanageable Revolutionaries
Women and Irish Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1995
Unmanageable Revolutionaries describes how Irish women (despite their frequent omission from the history books) have always played a key role in the struggle for independence. The author depicts the role women have played in the 'Irish struggle' from 1881 to the present day, partiularly in the crucial...
Double Crossed
The Failure of Organized Crime Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In the United States, the popular symbols of organized crime are still Depression-era figures such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky—thought to be heads of giant, hierarchically organized mafias. In Double Crossed, Michael Woodiwiss challenges perpetuated myths to reveal a more disturbing...
by Barbara Foley
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to be published in decades, Barbara Foley argues that Marxism continues to offer the best framework for exploring the relationship between literature and society.*BR**BR*She lays out in clear terms the principal aspects...