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The Conspiracy is the last and most acclaimed novel by French writer and activist Paul Nizan, who died two years after its publication fighting the...

William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reach...

A powerful work of moral and political philosophy.The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train som...

A myth-busting pamphlet that charts a course out of the current cost of living crisis, focusing on Britain's current economic situationWe are livin...

Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice o...

Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice o...

The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

A whirlwind tour through the utopias of modernityThe Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a brilliant fictional excursion through Western ...

The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War may be commemorated by some as a great moment of national history. But the standard history of...

The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War may be commemorated by some as a great moment of national history. But the standard history of...

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important todayV. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as...

The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of laborUnion membership in the United States has fallen bel...

The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of laborUnion membership in the United States has fallen bel...

Erik Olin Wright’s Classes was hailed on publication, by the American Journal of Sociology, as “almost certain to be the most important book on soc...

Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulationsVivek Chibber’s Postcolonial ...

Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulationsVivek Chibber’s Postcolonial ...

Co-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, Michael Hardt examines the Declaration of Independence and other texts by Jefferson, arguing ...

In response to the American administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin Amer...

How Western philosophy lost its innocence: from Enlightenment to fascism The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukács’s trenchant criticism of certain...

The year 1992, scheduled to be a milestone on the road to European unity, saw Sarajevo and other European cities bombarded slowly to pieces and the...

Boris Kagarlitsky is the author of The Thinking Reed, The Dialectic of Hope, and The Mirage of Modernisation. He has been arrested twice for his ac...

This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in whic...