Pluto Press: 574 books
The Benn Heresy
Foreword by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This new edition of the classic biography of Tony Benn captures the essence of Benn’s formidable impact on the British Labour Party and British politics. Written at the apogee of his career, immediately after the Labour Party’s 1981 Deputy Leadership campaign under Harold Wilson, it charts the evolution...
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The Life and Times of A. L. Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Folk singer and folk music collector, writer, painter, journalist, art critic, whalerman, sheep station roustabout, Marxist, and much more - this is the story of A. L. (Bert) Lloyd's extraordinary life.
A. L. Lloyd played a key part in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s, but that is...
by John Rose
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a critical account of the historical, political and cultural roots of Zionism. John Rose shows how this powerful political force is based in mythology; ancient, medieval and modern. Many of these stories, as with other mythologies, have no basis in fact. However, because Zionism is a living...
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter
Gaza's Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Gaza is the frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and rarely out of the news, this book explores the daily lives of the people in the region, giving us an insight into what is at risk in each round of violence.
Ramzy Baroud tells his father's fascinating story. Driven...
Inventing Africa
History, Archaeology and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inventing Africa is a critical account of narratives which have selectively interpreted and misinterpreted the continent's deep past.Writers have created alluring images of lost cities, vast prehistoric migrations and golden ages of past civilisations. Debates continue on the African origins of humankind,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
The concept of anarchy is often presented as a recipe for pure disorder. The Anarchist Turn brings together innovative and fresh perspectives on anarchism to argue that in fact it represents a form of collective, truly democratic social organisation.
The book shows how in the last decade the...
Constructed Situations
A New History of the Situationist International
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally shaped the revolutions of the late 1960’s, most famously in Paris in May ‘68. They took on their shoulders the history of the workers’ struggle,...
Sylvia Pankhurst
Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
From militant suffragette at the beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War, Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice.
In this vivid biography Katherine Connelly examines Pankhursts role at the forefront...
The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist
A Personal and Political Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Antony Lerman traces his five-decade personal and political journey from idealistic socialist Zionist to controversial critic of Zionism and Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. As head of an influential UK Jewish think tank, he operated at the highest levels of international Jewish political and...
Ellen Wilkinson
From Red Suffragist to Government Minister
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Ellen Wilkinson was a key radical figure in the 20th century British socialist and feminist movement, a woman of passionate energy who was involved in most of the major struggles of her time.
Born in October 1891 into a working-class textile family, Wilkinson was involved in womens suffrage,...
Jean Paul Marat
Tribune of the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Jean-Paul Marats role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he has been portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marats contributions as an agitator, tactician, and strategist,...
Hannah Arendt
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Hannah Arendt is one of the most famous political theorists of the twentieth century, yet in the social sciences her work has rarely been given the attention it deserves. This careful and comprehensive study introduces Arendt to a wider audience.
Finn Bowring shows how Arendt's writings have...
The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance
Hacking the Future of Money
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Popular anger against the financial system has never been higher, yet the practical workings of the system remain opaque to many people. The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance aims to bridge the gap between protest slogans and practical proposals for reform.Brett Scott is a campaigner and former derivatives...
Super Imperialism
The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Michael Hudson's brilliant shattering book will leave orthodox economists spluttering. Classical economists don't like to be reminded of the ugly realities of Imperialism. Hudson is one of the tiny handful of economic thinkers in today's world who are forcing us to look at old questions in startling...