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United Students Against Sweatshops heads a wave of anti-sweatshop organizing that has reached over two hundred American college campuses in the pas...

Reaching from biblical times to the present day, Esther Benbassa’s prize-winning exploration of Jewish identity is both epic and comprehensive. She...

Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present“I am the supercommunity, and you are ...

Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present“I am the supercommunity, and you are ...

A collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood b...

Two extraordinary figures explore freedom, power and the biggest challenges of the 21st centuryTwo world-renowned figures of contemporary politics ...

An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia PankhurstAlong with her mother Emmeline, and her sister ...

What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it?Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil...

A blistering firsthand account of the conflict in Homs by the internationally acclaimed author of The Kindly Ones “We fight for our religion, for o...

A TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLDSystems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ide...

On 29 January 2011, Benjamin Robinson was playing rugby for his school. During the match he sustained a concussion but was not taken off, and was a...

The articles and essays collected in this book were written during the decade of Lukács’s life when he was most active in politics. The first texts...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's selfFor nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written ...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's selfFor nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written ...

Taking back control? States and state systems after globalizationThe era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterise...

The story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets More than a hundred years ago, French troops fired the first tear gas g...

The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” (New S...

The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” (New S...

Trotsky and Slavoj Žižek defend revolutionary violenceWritten in the white heat of revolutionary Russia’s Civil War, Trotsky’s Terrorism and Commun...

Jacobin magazine offfers an irreverent, illustrated introduction to socialism that answers the basic questions many want to know—but are too afraid...

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw s...

For Bataille, "the absence of myth" had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had "lost the secret of its cohesion," Bataille s...

One of the rising stars of contemporary critical theory, Bruno Bosteels discusses the new currents of thought generated by figures such as Alain Ba...