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Revolution in Our Lifetime
A Short History of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
A new history of the Black Panther Party, for the 50th anniversary of its founding
The Black Panther Party and the movement that spawned it is one of the most storied episodes in the history of the Black freedom struggle in America, and in the history of the American Left. And yet, argues the...
They Can't Represent Us!
Reinventing Democracy From Greece To Occupy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States ultimately share an agenda—to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary...
The Reform of Europe
A Political Guide to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A powerful and progressive programme for the Eurozone
Since 2010, the eurozone crisis has roiled the continent, creating political discord and generating a long period of economic stagnation. The cyclical recovery enjoyed in 2017 is no cause for complacency. It should act as an impetus to undertake...
Discovery of the World
A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Luciana Castellina is one of Italy’s most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper il manifesto. In this coming-of agememoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political awakening as a teenage girl in Fascist Italy—where she used to play tennis with Mussolini’s...
by Immanuel Wallerstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A succinct introduction to the history of capitalism by the renowned political theorist.
In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years. Considering the way capitalism has changed and evolved...
Life Lessons
The Case for a National Education Service
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A radical agenda to make our education system fit for the twenty-first century
Our education system has been damaged by politicians who have arrogantly imposed a regime of market-driven reforms. It is time to reframe education as an essential public good, one arising from a hunger to find more...
by Costas Lapavitsas
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
First, there was the credit crunch, and governments around the world stepped in to bail out the banks. The sequel to that debacle is the sovereign debt crisis, which has hit the eurozone hard. The hour has come to pay the piper, and ordinary citizens across Europe are growing to realize that socialism...
Democracy or Bonapartism
Two Centuries of War on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2020
How democracy became a form of soft authoritarian rule
The history of the advent of universal suffrage is a fraught one. As late as the mid-twentieth century, it was still impeded by forms of censitary, racial and sexual discrimination, which proved especially stubborn in countries with the...
Liberalism at Large
The World According to the Economist
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
The path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supporters
Since 1843, the Economist has been the single most devoted and influential champion of liberalism anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and how has the liberal message...
by Etienne Balibar
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Providing a lucid and accessible introduction to Marx, complete with pedagogical boxes, a chronology and guides to further reading, Etienne Balibar makes the most difficult areas of his philosophy easy to understand. One of the most influential French philosophers to have emerged from the 1960s, Balibar...
by Jean Baudrillard
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
The most provocative work from the father of postmodernism.
A spectre haunts the revolutionary imagination: the spectre of production. Revolutionary thought - from Marx to Deleuze - merely replicates the obsession with production of classical political economy. Jean Baudrillard's provocative...
by Erik Olin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values - equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity - can both provide the basis...
The New Enclosure
The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
How public land has been stolen from us.
Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the biggest privatization of them all has until now escaped scrutiny: the privatization of land. Since Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979, and hidden from the...
by Maurice Godelier
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise, the demise of the nuclear family, and the increase in marriages and adoptions among same-sex partners, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux.
In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist...