A thrilling new route to a better societyA toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. On
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj iek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecologi
Award-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downOn the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville tells the extraordinary story of t
Re-issue of the classic socialist call to arms in 1968The original publication of the May Day Manifesto in 1968 collected together the most influential radical voices of the era. Amongst the 70 signat
How to save our cities: leading architect on the fall of the neoliberal cityWhat has happen to New York since the Bloomberg era? What lessons can we draw lessons from a city that was home to both Jan
Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to IslamophobiaThe best-selling author of The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the troublesome figure of th
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin“Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be certain
The first full presentation of a fundamental aspect of Marx, the concept of need.The basic discoveries underlying Marx's critique of political economy - labour power, surplus value, use value - are al
Britain’s leading radical delivers an eviscerating attack on the indistinguishable political elite of the UK.What is the point of elections? The result is always the same: a victory for the Extr
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most
One of the world’s leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in GreeceIn a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive development
Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary artIf, as Walter Benjamin claimed, “it is the function of artistic form … to make historical content into a philosophical truth,&rdq
One of the world’s leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in GreeceIn a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive development
How a Mexican-American lawyer in El Paso, Texas has led a campaign to expose America’s corrupt asylum processFor decades, the American political asylum process has been used to punish enemies an
A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt?
The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United StatesJust as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden nat
The principle of the “lesser evil”—the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice—has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical phi
Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century laterReflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historia
C. L. R. James was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a pioneering scholar of slave revolt; a leading voice of Pan-Africanism; a peripatetic revolutionary and schol
A leading German scholar reveals the secret history of Nabokov’s infamous novelDoes it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou.
A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of CivilizationsThe idea of fanaticism as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of relig
Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which mode
A heartbreaking, full-color graphic novel of the refugee dramaIn the French port town of Calais, the historic home of the lace industry, a city within a city has arisen. This new town, known as the Ju
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, ageing in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the ‘new’, in a ruling orthodoxy daily disparaging all it portrays as the ‘old’?
Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount the
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors of totalitarianism should we submit ourselves to a miserable third way of economic l
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of LeninAt the end of his life, Lenin wrote ‘we didn’t know everything’, acknowledging the dilemmas he faced on th
An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental workUS Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last dec
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it “Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. W
In this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse.He arguesthat the law is how justice is implmented in secular society, but it isn
In this original and provocative book Ellen Meiksins Wood reminds us that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of
A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, anecdote, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple form
A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, anecdote, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple form
Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of
Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisHalf a dozen years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in cris
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz KafkaTowards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose w
The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysisThe traditional story about the historical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis implies that the Oedipus comple
The genealogy of today’s disruptive protest movementsFrom environmentalists chaining themselves to logging equipment to global justice activists blockading the World Trade Organization summit to polic
The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombingEver since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this i
