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by Maurice Godelier
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Exploring the close relationship between the real and the symbolic and imaginary
What you imagined is not always imaginary, but everything that is imaginary is imagined. It is by imagining that people make the impossible become possible. In mythology or religion, however, those things that...
Communities of Resistance
Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
‘There is no socialism after liberation, socialism is the process through which liberation is won.’ Each of the essays in Communities of Resistance acts as a critical reaffirmation of socialist politics as the context for questions of race and resistance.
The left itself is under scrutiny...
The Last Soldiers of the Cold War
The Story of the Cuban Five
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting...
The People's Republic of Walmart
How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations
For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism....
Without Apology
The Abortion Struggle Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
An indispensable guide to building a fighting feminist movement for reproductive freedom
With an antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places...
Fascism and Dictatorship
The Third International and the Problem of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Poulantzas’s book is the first major Marxist study of German and Italian fascism to appear since the Second World War. It carefully distinguishes between fascism as a mass movement before the seizure of power and fascism as an entrenched machinery of dictatorship. It compares the distinct class...
Women's Oppression Today
The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household system” operate in relation to contemporary capitalism. In this updated edition, Michèle Barrett surveys the social and intellectual changes that have...
Tycoonery
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
No one was more surprised than cynical former academic George Timmins when his old friend and property magnate David Adler contacted him out of the blue. Adler had news: not only did he have plans to pull down the centre of their childhood town, Trowbridge Spa, to make way for a new, modern shopping...
by Vigdis Hjorth
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
A controversial bestseller from one of Norway's most intelligent and highly-regarded novelists
When a dispute over her parents’ will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer...
Hara Hotel
A Tale of Syrian Refugees in Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A first-hand account of a Greek refugee camp—and the stories of the refugees staying there
Syrian Kurd Juwan Azad left his home and family in Damascus in 2011 to flee military service under the al-Assad regime. After several troubled years as a refugee in Turkey, he arrived in Greece by sea,...
Benjamin and Brecht
The Story of a Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A fascinating account of the friendship between two of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century
Germany in the mid 1920s, a place and time of looming turmoil, brought together Walter Benjamin—acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theorist—and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth...
Drought
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A brilliant novel about memory, love, and the clash between the old world and the new, set in 1950s Spain
“He turned his back on the old man to mourn in silence this unnecessary death and his part in it; but the sight of the coffin brought anger instead ...”
In 1957, a burned-out...
Samuel Beckett
Anatomy of a Literary Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett’s work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett’s reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work, Casanova...
American Breakdown
The Trump Years and How They Befell Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there
Donald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential...