Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, “progress = modernization through industrialization,” to which it ha
Praise for Rebecca Solnit:“Essential feminist reading.” —New Republic“The voice of the resistance.” —New York Times Magazine“Rebecca Solnit is a treasure.” —MarketplaceIn this modern twist on the clas
They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells—in their own words—the story of yo
They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita, (“Alone, Alone”), is a Voice of Witness collection of oral histories that tell the stories of youth refugees fleeing
In this critical new work, sociologist William I. Robinson offers an engaging and accessible introduction to his theory of global capitalism. He applies this theory to a wide range of contemporary top
In this critical new work, sociologist William I. Robinson offers an engaging and accessible introduction to his theory of global capitalism. He applies this theory to a wide range of contemporary top
Long Term Offenders, or LTOs, is the state's term for those it condemns to effective death by imprisonment. Often serving sentences of sixty to eighty years, LTOs bear the brunt of the bipartisan embr
McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto—first published in 1974—quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by Briti
The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism’s combined but uneven development as these appear from the global ‘periphery&r
How do you imagine trans liberation while living in a cis world? On My Way To Liberation follows a gender nonconforming body moving through the streets of Chicago. From the sex shop to the farmers mar
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, she has em
Art History as Social Praxis: The Collected Writings of David Craven brings together more than thirty essays that chart the development of Craven’s voice as an unorthodox Marxist who applie
Started as a digital archive project, Feminist Freedom Warriors tells the storiesof women of color from the Global South, weaving together cross-generationalhistories of feminist activism across natio
"Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico—a battle that pits a pitilessly neoliberal plutocratic ‘paradise' aga
"Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico—a battle that pits a pitilessly neoliberal plutocratic ‘paradise' aga
In China, capitalist development since the 1980s has given rise to an enormous new industrial working class. In the vast export-processing zones along China’s southeastern coast, countless so-ca
In 1988, Dominque Wilkins & Michael Jordan squared off in Chicago for the most epic dunk contest in the history of the sport. 30 years later, poets & playwrights, Idris Goodwin & Kevin Coval, long-tim
As Black oppression moves again to the forefront of American public life, the history of radical approaches to combating racism has acquired renewed relevance.Collecting, for the first time, source ma
Praise for From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation:“This brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Ta
Rethinking Private Higher Education takes the university as a core, yet changing, institution in modern nation states. It offers fresh insights into the actual meaning of ?private’ in different univer
From the travails of art critical language in the late eighteenth century to the upheaval of the Paris Commune of 1871, from neo-classical art criticism to the Paris Commune of 1871, from Bizet’s Carm
“Lance Selfa’s The Democrats reveals the many ways in which the establishment Democratic Party has not just dashed progressive hopes over centuries but served as a distraction from the desperately nee
Two long out-of-print biographies of V.I. Lenin, published together for the first time. In Young Lenin, Trotsky details the Bolshevik leader's conversion to revolutionary Marxism dispelling many of t
E’mon Lauren’s poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago’s Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago&rsquo
This groundbreaking work argues that the origins of American capitalism planted its roots in the strong farmers’ movements that were so central to the nation’s early political development. It was the
While other historians have skated over the labor unrest of 1919, focusing instead on the general strike of 1926, Martyn Ives uncovers a remarkable incidence of unofficial mass strikes in the coalfiel
This comprehensive historical survey of Italian Marxism explores the growth of different forms of Marxist culture in the period from the Paris Commune through the First World War. In it, Favilli provi
Poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks was a singular force in American culture.The first black woman to be named United States poet laureate, Brook’s poetry, fiction, and social comment
This collection brings together contributions from social theorists in sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies to dissect and critique capitalist crises, left-liberalism, left-Thatcherism, resista
Collected and translated by Deutscher Prize-Winning Grossman biographer Rick Kuhn, assembles several of Henryk Grossman’s most important essays, and serves as an introduction to his project of recover
In this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution. Written primarily for members of the newly created Communist International
Praise for How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?:"I was frankly pole-axed by this magnificent book. Davidson resets the entire debate on the character of revolutions: bourgeois, democratic
Through a methodologically-minded reconstruction of the Marxian critique of political economy this study shows that the outcome of the historical movement of the objectified form of social mediation,
Many hold that the transition from Hegel’s materialism to Marx’s materialism signifies a progressive development from an abstract-idealist theory-of-becoming, to a theory of the concrete actions of hu
Throughout the 2000s Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today? What is their relationship to the explosive
This book concerns the form taken today by US imperialism in Latin-America, analyzing the projection of US state power as a means of both advancing the economic interests of US capital in the region a
This book presents to Western readers, for the first time, a current in late Soviet philosophy known as the activity approach’. Though lesser known than its counterpart in cultural-historical psycholo
Though largely unknown to the English-speaking world, the Austro-Marxist school of thinkers offered a number of essential theoretical insights into the issues faced by the burgeoning socialist movemen
An outstanding set of informative essays, providing an unsurpassed account of the dynamic revolutionary socialist current in the United States known as American Trotskyism.” In a preface written espec
In this ground-breaking study, leading Gramsci scholar Guido Liguori unearths the philological pathways through which the Sardinian Communist’s thinking developed. Liguori excavates’ the Prison Notebo
