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Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International up until the late sixties, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark returns wi...

“‘Come, let us build a Third Kingdom, and in this Third Reich, hey, sisters, you will live happily; hey, brothers, you will live happily; hey, kids...

In 1944, the International Labour Organization laid out its “Declaration of Philadelphia,” a full-fledged social bill of rights in the same spirit ...

Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers.   A withering exposé of runaway ...

Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers.   A withering exposé of runaway ...

Forensic political biography of the Labour Party leaderHailed as a human-rights champion and political outsider, what sort of politician is Keir St...

Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical textLenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightni...

In this groundbreaking critique of both traditional and Marxist notions of feudalism and of the pre-capitalist state, John Haldon considers the con...

Thinking beyond pandemic capitalismThe health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the...

"An extraordinary book. Mohamed Amer Meziane's breathtaking analysis of the making of fossil states opens to a new genre of history writing where t...

The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high scho...

The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high scho...

A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short storiesThe Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and p...

China’s decades-long repression of Tibetan independence continues on as its global economic power continues to grow. In response to the former and ...

The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all t...

Twenty years have passed since the Italian Communists’ last Congress in 1991, in which the death of their party was decreed. It was a deliberate de...

Twenty years have passed since the Italian Communists’ last Congress in 1991, in which the death of their party was decreed. It was a deliberate de...

Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist a...

The Terrorist Prince is a gripping insider’s account of the Pakistani resistance organization Al-Zulfikar (in Urdu, “The Sword”), set up in 1979 af...

The idea that we should ‘do something’ to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human rights. Yet...

A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the UnconciousThe Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not ...

This volume represents the 30 years‘ aftershocks of the cataclysmic battles of the 1960s, as recorded by one of the major journalists of that gener...

Today, media commentators, intellectuals and politicians declare that western science and rationality are threatened by irrational enemies. Evangel...

Nearly Everything We Think We Know about Greek Tragedy Is WrongIf Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here...