These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references
A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryThis is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the
The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond What is th
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationshipSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise
A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humansWhat is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorgan
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US p
Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really worksThe City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the d
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identityElizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice arises from over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberatio
A passionate attack on the tyranny of expertsModern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of
Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of
A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the futureWhat happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? Ge
The lives of one of America’s invisible communities--migrant farmworkersMore than a million men, women, and children work in American agriculture, and yet their stories are rarely told, their low-wage
A surprising radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting in Europe and North America. Drawing on extensi
A surprising radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting in Europe and North America. Drawing on extensi
Five leading thinkers on the concept of ‘rights’ in an era of rightlessnessSixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, deprived of her German citizenship as a Jew and in exile from her coun
The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history todayDrawing on his four decades as a professional historian, Shlomo Sand interrogates the academic discipli
What are the myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel?Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoken and radical thinkers writing on the history of Israel. In this groundbreaking and controversial book h
Electrifying investigation of White House lies about the assassination of Osama bin LadenIn 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Os
The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, globalization, and the right of humanitarian interfere
Furies of Indian Communalism is a powerful and rigorous analysis of the growing phenomenon of Hindu communalism, which currently threatens to tear India apart. Placing the politics of Hindu nationalis
One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twen
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 urge
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?Money makes the world go round: but what is it really? And how is it produced? Above all, who controls its production, and in whose interest
The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalistSixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his li
A devastating analysis of what is happening to our universitiesIn recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are n
Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashesFire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–
A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and DerridaJudaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime ‘o
The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like emergency operations on the open heart of the Western
The stories behind the inequality crisisForty years ago, the richest 1 percent controlled 25 percent of America’s wealth. Today it’s 40 percent, and the richest one-tenth of 1 percent have as much wea
What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of ref
In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here,
Yitzhak Laor is one of Israel’s most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture. In this work he fearlessly dissects t
The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within
The artists and writers who left when the Nazis came to power were “the best of Germany.” Palmier weaves their diverse stories into a history of magisterial scope.In 1933 thousands of inte
Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformityIn the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were “blue ants under the red flag,” dress
Why should we have to “Keep Calm and Carry On”? In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a “mak
A brilliant family saga stretching from the Russian Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet UnionFor some East Germans, the fall of communism was like the end of a long and painful love affair: free
Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinkerMarshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first c
Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writersFive hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More’s astonishingly radical Utopia contin
The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In
