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Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled ...

“Nice idea, but it doesn’t work in practice.” How often have socialists had this claim thrown back at them? And now, after the events of 1989, many...

How the redefinition of antisemitism has functioned as a tactic to undermine Palestine solidarityThe widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of ...

Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam for an entire generation of ac...

Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and economist, his ...

A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasiesEarthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Droug...

Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and politica...

Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to re...

The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any ‘hu...

In Ethics–Politics–Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experie...

A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. DebsDynamic and beloved American radical, labor leader, and socialist Eugene Victor Debs le...

An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-rightIt is clear that the right is on the rise, but after ...

An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-rightIt is clear that the right is on the rise, but after ...

An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-rightIt is clear that the right is on the rise, but after ...

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfareEuropean Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the his...

One of the world’s leading theorists of nationalism offers a new synthesisIn the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as m...

One of the world’s leading theorists of nationalism offers a new synthesisIn the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as m...

A comprehensive, critical assessment of the EU after BrexitThe European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its pol...

A LANDMARK OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AND SOCIAL INQUIRY, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORAcclaimed worldwide, Everybody Loves a Good Drought ...

National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistBest Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub)What Has Happened to Fiction in...

A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and filmLike Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s w...

The poets’ Great War: violence, revolution and modernismThe First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries wer...