Chris Harman unearths the history of the lost revolution in Germanythe swastika first entered modern history on uniforms of the counterrevolutionary troops of 19181923and reveals its lessons for strug
To millions throughout the world, the Russian workers' state offered new hope. People everywhere turned from the grim alternatives of a declining capitalismunemployment, poverty, the threat of new war
In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for a new kind of public” that wanted more honest pictures. In this insightful and stimulating book Cassano argues that this new kind of public
The republication of Karl Korsch’s classic Karl Marx makes available to a new generation of readers the most concise account of Marx’s thought by one of the major figures of twentieth-century Western
Today China is a global superpower, still dominated by a party that calls itself Communist. In this classic history of the Chinese Revolution, originally published in 1978, Nigel Harris traces the cla
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, d
"Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet."?The New York Times Book Review "Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled,
Time in Marx demonstrates that the basic concepts of the three volumes of Capital come under different categories of time: "time of production" in volume one is linear, time of circu
Widely seen as among the most influential Italian thinkers of all time, Antonio Gramsci's highly original Marxism continues to be studied across the globe, even after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Gram
"Rory Fanning's odyssey is more than a walk across America. It is a gripping story of one young man's intellectual journey from eager soldier to skeptical radical, a look at not only the physical imme
Long-considered dead by mainstream critics, the basic ideas of Karl Marx are brought to life in this overview of his thought. This book argues that instead of irrelevant, Marx's ideas of globalization
Max Weber's writings in The Sociology of Religion are today acknowledged as a classic of the social sciences. They are key texts for understanding Weber’s central sociological concepts concerning West
Thirty years have passed since the heyday of the women's liberation movement, yet women remain without equal rights while feminist thought has shifted steadily rightward. This fully updated collection
Praise for Tom Engelhardt's The United States of Fear:"Tom Engelhardt, as always, focuses his laser-like intelligence on a core problem that the media avoid. . . . A stunning polemic."?Mike DavisPrais
Though infrequently viewed as an environmental thinker, Karl Marx insisted that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by both historically developed relations among pro
Praise for Mark Naison's Communists in Harlem During the Depression:"[Naison's] thoughtful, judicious study vividly conveys a heady atmosphere of political experimentation." ?The Nation In this incisi
Bryan Palmer tells the compelling story of how a handful of revolutionary Trotskyists, working in the largely non-union trucking sector, led the drive to organise the unorganised, to build an industri
"Is socialism an impossible, discredited dream or the only realistic path for human survival? If you're not sure of the answer, or are just curious about what the Left really believes in, you need to
Philosophically engaging, and practically oriented, this book asks whether philosophic clarity can account for effective revolutionary organizational practice.
The productivity of the notion of singularity is argued to be based on the fact that it allows us to highlight the element of individual realisation, simultaneously stressing its distance from the mod
During the first two decades of the twentieth century the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism developed into a major influence within the trade union movement. Committed to destroying capitalism throug
"Impressive."?Amiri Baraka"Bonair-Agard's lyricism is sharpened by a deep sense of politics, a profoundly muscular intelligence, and a sensuality that can be wholly and beautifully dangerous."?Kwame D
From the poet hailed as a "new glowing voice in the world of literature" by the legendary Studs Terkel, comes Shtick, a sweeping exposition on modern Jewish American culture. Exploring how Jews shed m
Beginning in 2010, Kashmir, occupied by a massive concentration of Indian soldiers in order to suppress objections to Indian rule, began to witness a new uprising (or "intifada"--borrowing the Arabic
Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century sets as its task to assess the validity, in light of current economic development, of the epistemology structuring different historical interpretations
Easterling (Mexican history, U. of Chicago) presents a brief history of the 10-year conflict, pointing out that all of the players who are revolutionary heroes today were fighting against each other a
"The poetic voice of his generation."—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar"Etan Thomas is breaking it down for our young minds on how to be a vital part of this challenging world we all live in. Let's give it up for E
