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 At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators. Dic...

"Matt Hern's brilliant and captivating Outside the Outside presents an urgently needed, theoretically sophisticated street-level perspective on som...

The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanize...

Bernie Sanders’s political autobiography, with an updated afterword that brings his story up to the 2020 presidential campaignExplaining where he c...

This book brings together Dorothy Thompson’s most important essays on English social history, written over the last 25 years, many previously unpub...

A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a PipelineIt might soon...

Work isn’t workingAs precarity and low pay become further embedded in the job market, at a time when work-related stress and exhaustion are endemic...

What if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable ho...

A radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic politicsThe question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times. During the p...

This provocative book offers the first sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacificationIn his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleo...

‘What do you want?’ is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this h...

Pariah is a retrospect of Tony Blair’s recent New Labour plebiscite, so far the most absurd ‘election’ of the twenty-first century. After a much-va...

In this new collection of essays on film, all written over the last ten years, Peter Wollen explores an extraordinarily wide range of topics, stret...

A kaleidoscopic look at Paris’s ever-changing forms and people"Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled a...

In this stunning new collection of texts on visual art, Peter Wollen explores an extraordinary range of topics, from an analysis of “Global Concept...

Closely interviewed by the French journalist Philippe Petit, Baudrillard covers a vast range of topics, including Fukuyama, 1989 and the collapse o...

First English-language anthology of one of Latin America’s pre-eminent Marxist writersThe Argentine-born writer Adolfo Gilly has directly observed ...

A portrait of a brilliant journalist and tireless campaigner for justicePaul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his ge...

In his heyday, Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to...

The last two years have been the most brutal in the entire thirty-six year history of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip;...

The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive character...

An intense literary memoir of love and grief“Our marriage was, from any conventional point of view, wildly implausible; and you, my dear son, are t...

The beloved and award-winning artist, critic and novelist John Berger's first collection of essays on art, politics and creativityWhen first publis...

Investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Pharma is failing us, with catastrophic co...