On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers’ strike. By nightfall, army snipers were in position, military officers were on a nearby roof with cameras, and Lloyd
Neoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist itHow do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible for the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we explain
The extradition of terror subjects reveals who is considered to be human—and who is notWhen Minh Pham was extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism related charges, his appeal against
The BBC: the mouthpiece of the Establishment?The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial,
The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English RevolutionThe Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, ar
America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terrorIn twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democr
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 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
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
America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terrorIn twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democr
Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideologyNicolas Bourriaud is a leading theorist and art curator. Here he looks to the future of art as a place to tackle the ex
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.
Manuel CorteI?s was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the peasant reform movement and an organizer in the farm workers' unionization struggles. He also became mayor of Malaga, where he was cau
The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, rarely considered in the same optic. It looks at the theor
Place: Latin Quarter, Paris. Date: May 1968. Cast: Polly, Giorgio, Jane, Anna, Arthur and a thousand rioting students. Plot: Polly accepts that it takes love to make a revolution, even if it arrives i
By the year 2000, Mexicans and other Latinos will comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles. In this new book, the author of the widely praised Occupied America describes the harsh reali
Japan: The "other," lesser-known 1968The analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankf
A bold proposal for new thinking on education: the formation of a National Education ServiceIt is time for a radical shake up of the purposes and practices of our education system. Melissa Benn is one
Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many.Big challenges lie ahead for our society: increased automation of work, and the threat of catastro
How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labour struggles after May 1968In the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national affair. The L
A firsthand account of a Greek refugee camp--and the stories of the refugees staying in themHara Hotel chronicles everyday life in a makeshift refugee camp on the forecourt of a petrol station in nort
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
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
The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and chi
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or powerThe trial of Angela Davis is remembered as
A portrait of a man caught up in the Paris commune and the major historical events of the twentieth centuryAdrien Lejeune died in Siberia, 1942, fleeing moscow from the invading Nazis. It was not unti
Hillary Clinton presents her campaign for the presidency and her long career in public life as a triumph of feminism. But an all-star lineup of American feminists here says, “It’s not that simple.” In
From her operational-base-cum-family-home, Commie Girl brings you this brave and brilliant journal of daily life in a land where no liberal-humanist sentiment has been detected since the dawn of Reaga
A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futuresEric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, ro
A vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politicsWould you let a robot clean your house? When we think about work, we still tend to think about workplaces - if we think about reducing work
In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 it possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialised power in the world. This book deals with the intervening 250 years
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
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
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically uneq
Chris Harvie shows how Gordon Brown came to preside over a bankrupt country on the brink of economic and political breakdown. Taking us on a tour of Britain over the last decade, he explores the ever
The Blue Manuscript is the ultimate prize for any collector of Islamic treasures. But does it still exist, and if so, can it be found? In search of answers to these questions, an assortment of archae
A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futuresEric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, leads us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to
What happens when the rich are allowed to hide their money in tax havens, and what we should do about it?The revelations from the Panama Papers show unknown levels of secret money: how the superrich h
A critique of the city as a commodity and a passionate demand for housing for allPeter Marcuse has long been recognized as one of the foremost critical urban scholars of our era. He has been writing a
The ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode at the height of the Cold War. At the end of the fifties, restless and rebellious youth, avant-g
