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What happens when ‘life’s simple joys’ become complicated? When pleasure is transformed as a function of consumption, the innocent comforts of food...

There are no unorganisable workers, only workers yet to be organised.There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be uno...

For the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial terrorism, th...

The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history todayOn its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand’s book The...

Roberto Schwarz is the foremost literary critic of his generation in Brazil and the most important Marxist practitioner in the tradition of the Fra...

No one was more surprised than cynical former academic George Timmins when his old friend and property magnate David Adler contacted him out of the...

The US has been subjected to the ruthless and unrelenting tyranny of the world’s most advanced capitalism, permeating every aspect of American life...

From Menem’s new Thatcherite experiment in Argentina, through Fujimori’s unexpected victory in Peru, to Collor’s near defeat at the hands of the ra...

A journey through the uncomputable remains of computer historyNarrating some lesser known episodes from the deep history of digital machines, Alexa...

In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a compelling exploration of late-nineteenth-century politics and culture against a backgroun...

These remarkable oral histories of undocumented men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S. “[fill] a gap in our understand...

These remarkable oral histories of undocumented men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S. “[fill] a gap in our understand...

These remarkable oral histories of undocumented men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S. “[fill] a gap in our understand...

A collection of essays of political philosophy by the renowned mid 20th-century critical theorist and literary criticThe relationship between philo...

Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalismFew ideas are more contested today than “class.”...

Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalismFew ideas are more contested today than “class.”...

Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalismFew ideas are more contested today than “class.”...

A new vision of politics “below the radar”One way to grasp the nature of politics is to understand the key terms in which it is discussed. Unexcept...

A new vision of politics “below the radar”One way to grasp the nature of politics is to understand the key terms in which it is discussed. Unexcept...

Founded in 1970, the journal Socialist Review has played a uniquely important role in the recent history and intellectual development of the Americ...

Unfinished Nation traces the evolution of Indonesia from its anti-colonial stirrings in the early twentieth century to the lengthy, and eventually ...

In this major new reading of Sartre’s life and work, Paige Arthur traces the relationship between the philosopher’s decades-long commitment to deco...

Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he e...

Religion, oil, and war bent to the House of Saud’s will to dominate Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle EastIn recent years the ruling family in Saud...