Pluto Press: 574 books
A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization
And How to Save It
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilisation. This book argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system.*BR**BR*Most accounts of our contemporary global crises focus on one...
England's Discontents
Political Cultures and National Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2018
England's Discontents unpacks the genealogy of British identities over the last two hundred years as they have been shaped by the main political cultures and their interactions with cultural politics.*BR**BR*Conservatism, social liberalism, economic liberalism, social democracy and socialism in partnership...
Bearing Witness
Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
People who witness acts of terror and violence are often called after the event to bear witness to what they saw. In cases where this violence is inflicted by the state upon its own people, the process of bearing witness is both politically complex and traumatic for the individual involved. Independent...
by David Randall
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A new edition of one of the world's leading textbooks on journalism. Translated into more than a dozen languages, David Randall's handbook is an invaluable guide to the 'universals' of good journalistic practice for professional and trainee journalists worldwide.
Randall emphasises that good...
Children of the Welfare State
Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This original ethnographic study looks at how children are ‘civilised’ within child institutions, such as schools, day care centres and families, under the auspices of the welfare state. As part of a general discussion on civilising projects and the role of state institutions, the authors focus...
Change the World Without Taking Power
The Meaning of Revolution Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This book is a profound search for a theory of social change. Through clearing away the cobwebs of revolutionary socialism, it renews the fight for the ending of capitalism and the construction of a new, fairer world.*BR**BR*After a century of failed attempts by radical projects, the concept of revolution...
Revolution, Democracy, Socialism
Selected Writings of V.I. Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series *Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience.
This is an entirely new collection of Lenin's writing. For the first time it brings together crucial shorter works, to show that Lenin held a life-long commitment...
The Dying Sahara
US Imperialism and Terror in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
In The Dark Sahara (Pluto, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating terrorism to justify a new Saharan front in Washingtons War on Terror. Now, in The Dying Sahara, he reveals how the designation of the region as a Terror Zone has destroyed the lives and...
War Reporters Under Threat
The United States and Media Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
War Reporters Under Threat describes the threat of violence facing war reporters from the United States government and some of its closest allies. Chris Paterson argues that what should have been the lesson for the press following the invasion of Iraq that they will be treated instrumentally by the...
by Vandana Shiva
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
In this compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power and shows its devastating environmental impact.Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control...
Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. An outstanding social and economic theorist of the twentieth century, and a dedicated political activist, she proved willing to go to prison and even give her life for her beliefs....
The Making of an African Working Class
Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker...
Austerity Ireland
The Failure of Irish Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the countrys ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery.In Austerity Ireland, Kieran Allen challenges this official image and argues that the Irish state's...
Unholy Wars
Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
'[A] masterpiece of reportorial thoroughness, painstaking research, and serious reflection.' Edward W. Said 'Cooley’s important and timely book examines a strange love affair that went disastrously wrong, the alliance between America and some of the most conservative and fanatical followers of Islam.'...