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A tangled history of feminism’s complicity and resistanceEvery week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behav...

Why every worker should join a unionIn this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for j...

Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, espe...

Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, espe...

This critical biography of Winston Churchill is “a powerful corrective” as it shines a light on the real history and war crimes of ‘Britain’s great...

This critical biography of Winston Churchill is “a powerful corrective” as it shines a light on the real history and war crimes of ‘Britain’s great...

The little-known story of the Situationist International’s struggle against the automation of everyday lifeNo other art movement has so profoundly ...

As heirs of the Enlightenment, we in the West tend to view ourselves as humane, rational and reasonable. Genocides are atrocities that ‘others’ com...

The Brazilian Workers Party is the most important political formation to emerge in Latin America for many years. Under the charismatic leadership o...

Stuart Hall’s retirement from the Open University in 1997 provided a unique opportunity to reflect on an academic career which has had the most pro...

Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the “linguistic turn” in modern philosophy, and anatomizes the “anti-philosophy” of Ludwig Wittgenstei...

Jacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations, his work has been a major influen...

The stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl” of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down ...

There were virtually no women film directors in germany until the 1970s. today there are proportionally more than in any other film-making country6...

The collapse of the monolithic Soviet state sounded the death knell for many myths about the Soviet Union. Yet one of the most persistent misappreh...

Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household syst...

Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household syst...

This pioneering and influential work of feminist theory has been extensively updated by the author to chart the changes in feminist film theory and...

“To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has bee...

This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World....

Ten years after the publication of The Business of Books, his groundbreaking critique of conglomeration in the book industry, André Schiffrin turns...

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout historySay the word “work,” and most people think of some form of gainful employ...

"Deeply researched, lucid and persuasive."–Joe Moran, Times Literary SupplementTracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout h...