In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a
Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disasterAward-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea
What lessons can we learn from the defeat of the seventeenth century English revolution?The failure of the English Revolution in 1660 provoked a variety of responses among radical clergy, intellectual
From the penthouse to the sewers—the political geography of the vertical cityVertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-
A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translationIn 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the ‘fundamental incompatibility’ between his thou
A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translationIn 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the ‘fundamental incompatibility’ between his thou
Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big businessThe charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in t
Essential reading for students of African-American historyThe distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 8
A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the coming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What’s the bes
Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way it is perceived.This is the s
Chemical weapons are banned from war zones. But today, tear gas has become the most commonly used form of “less-lethal” police force. In 2011, the year that protests exploded from the Arab Spring
The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevant—perhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which for a long time proved impossible to write, not simply due to the lack
Hugo Chavez’s extraordinary story—in his own words One of the most important Latin American leaders of the twenty-first century, Hugo Chavez was a military officer who became a left-wing revolutionary
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
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran“No ruling regime,” writes Hamid Dabashi, “could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people.” For decades, the
Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazineThe remarkable run of self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders for president of the U
An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principlesIn 2009 Slavoj iek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relev
An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principlesIn 2009 Slavoj iek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relev
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recentDSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included
Today's Olympic Games are an enormous marketing and money machine, to say nothing of sporting and media event—a global festival of top-tier athletics swaddled in both corporate cash and popular acclai
Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-Sous-Bois. Oakland. In recent decades we have returned to an “age of riots” as the prominent form of struggle against the abuses of capitalism. This theoretical, polit
What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power—it is not di
Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou propo
This account of the overthrow of colonial slavery in the Age ofRevolution has become a classic interpretation of crucial episodes inthe making of the modern world.
Since the shootings at Columbine High School a decade ago, hysteria hasdistorted the media’s coverage of school violence. This climate of fear hascreated ripe conditions for the imposition of u
In 1984, Nobel Peace Prize–winner and indigenous rights activistRigobertaMench￡ published I, RigobertaMench￡, her autobiographical account of life in Guatemala undera military dictatorship to g
In 1984, Nobel Peace Prize–winner and indigenous rights activist RigobertaMench￡ published I, RigobertaMench￡, her autobiographical account of life in Guatemala undera military dictatorship to
What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project
A thought-provoking series brings together works by top left-wing intellectuals and covers everything from philosophy to politcal science to literary criticism.
First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired acult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration f
"An Extraordinary book ... it offers to turn upside-down our most dearly held understandings about how American culture has evolved." Van Gosse, American Quarterly"As fresh a synthesis of the distinct
Responding to Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', the leading political philosophers of the Left convened in London in 2009 to take part in a landmark conference to discuss the perpetual, persiste
Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravityand pestilence. But is Britain’s capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as anevening in any new pro
When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother, Maureen, told him he wasadopted. She described his natural parents as a Scandinavian sailor and a“little Irish girl” who worked in a grocery.
After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural criticFredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vitalstrain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the
Ten years after the publication of The Business of Books, his groundbreakingcritique of conglomeration in the book industry, Andr? Schiffrin turns hisattention to the broader crisis in the media. Jus
