Pluto Press: 574 books
Obama's Economy
Recovery for the Few
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Three years after his election, Barack Obama presides over a deep economic malaise. Radical economist Jack Rasmus shows how the Obama administration has failed to deliver economic recovery and social justice and puts forward alternative proposals which could realise these goals.
Whilst corporate...
Tweets and the Streets
Social Media and Contemporary Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest.
Gerbaudo...
The Financial Crisis and the Global South
A Development Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This book is a major contribution exploring the policy options available for developing and emerging economies in response to the global economic crises.
Written by a highly respected development economist, the book gives a clear-eyed account of the issues particular to these countries and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Fair Trade has come a long way in the last 20 years. The Fair Trade Revolution celebrates the movement's achievement and takes up the challenge of improving more lives through fair dealing with producers.Fair Trade is now mainstream, with large companies like Cadbury's and supermarkets such as Sainsbury's...
by Miles Litvinoff, John Madeley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Fair trade is a growing global movement. A huge and widening range of fair trade goods are now available in the shops. Why is fair trade so important? This book provides 50 reasons why buying fair trade delivers a host of benefits to people and the planet. It's an inspiring account of how every consumer...
The Scramble for African Oil
Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa's Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Africa is often seen as a place to be pitied or feared as an area of instability. This book challenges these complacent assumptions, showing how our demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing the continent.
Douglas A. Yates shows how the 'scramble' by the great powers for African...
Elite Transition - Revised and Expanded Edition
From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid, this is an updated edition of a best-selling work of political analysis. Patrick Bond, a former adviser to the ANC, investigates how groups such as the ANC went from being a force of liberation to a vehicle now perceived as serving...
The Poverty of Capitalism
Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What Comes Next
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globalisation has been defined by unprecedented levels of inequality and environmental degradation. A return to capitalist growth threatens to exacerbate these problems,...
We Make Our Own History
Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and ever-increasing inequality. The refusal to continue...
by Greg Philo, Emma Briant, Pauline Donald
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage.Through forensic research it shows how hysterical and inaccurate media accounts act...
The Rise of the Green Left
Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change. From Latin America to Europe, Australia and China a militant movement merging red and green is taking shape.
Ecosocialists argue that capitalism threatens the future of humanity and...
Against Austerity
How we Can Fix the Crisis they Made
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political...
Polarizing Development
Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The global economic crisis has exposed the limits of neoliberalism and dramatically deepened social polarization. Yet, despite increasing social resistance and opposition, neoliberalism prevails globally.
Radical alternatives, moreover, are only rarely debated. And if they are, such alternatives...
Blaming the Victim
How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of...