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Hu Feng's Prison Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Hu Feng, the ‘counterrevolutionary’ leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party’s prison system. But back in the Party’s early days, he was one of its best known literary theoreticians and critics—at least until factional infighting, and his...
Tibet on Fire
Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Why Tibetan monks are setting themselves on fire
Since the 2008 uprising, nearly 150 Tibetan monks have set fire to themselves in protest at the Chinese occupation of their country. Most have died from their injuries. Author Tsering Woeser is a prominent voice of the Tibetan movement, and one...
The Revenge of History
The Battle for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
From 9/11 to the Arab uprisings and beyond—encompassing the economic crisis, war on terror, rise of China and tide of change in Latin America—The Revenge of History turns the orthodoxies of the past generation on their head.
In this coruscating account of the first decade of the twenty-first...
The Extreme Centre
A Second Warning
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Against the centre ground
Since 1989, politics has been a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wideranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and events that have informed this development across the world. It is an investigation...
Springtime
The New Student Rebellions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government’s savage cuts in state funding for higher education, cuts which formed the basis for an ideological attack on the nature of education itself. Involving universities...
The WikiLeaks Files
The World According to US Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire. Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 with the release of 251,287 top-secret State Department cables, which revealed to the world what the US government really thinks about national...
by Louis Auguste Blanqui
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
First English-language collection of writings by the legendary nineteenth-century insurrectionist
Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881) was one of the most important and controversial figures in nineteenth-century French revolutionary politics, and he played a major role in all of the great upheavals...
The Beach Beneath the Street
The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context...
The H-Word
The Peripeteia of Hegemony
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemony
Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.
In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine
The remarkable run of self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted—for the first time in decades and to the shock of many—a...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire
Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the divergent interests...
Revolution in the Air
Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968
The sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism. Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of this turning point, and examines what the resistance of today can learn from...
Underground America
Narratives of Undocumented Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Millions of undocumented immigrants live in the United States under constant threat of imprisonment or deportation. They survive underground, with little protection from exploitation by human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America presents the remarkable oral histories of men...
Chasing the Harvest
Migrant Workers in California Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States
The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of California’s migrant farmworkers in the 1930s. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ grape and lettuce boycotts captured the imagination...