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Each book in this dazzling new series, features classic texts by key historical figures. Each set of texts took center-stage during a period of revolution, incendiary words that roused populations to insurrection. Major contemporary radical writers introduce each book, discovering that the words still have the power to inspire, to provoke and maybe to ignite new revolutions ...
Simón Bolívar / Introduced by Hugo Chávez – The Bolívarian Revolution Fidel Castro / Introduced by Tariq Ali – The Declarations of Havana Thomas Jefferson / Introduced by Michael Hardt – The Declaration of Independence Maximilien Robespierre / Introduced by Slavoj Zizek – Virtue and Terror Mao Zedong / Introduced by Slavoj Zizek – On Practice and Contradiction
Jesus Christ / Introduced by Terry Eagleton – The Gospels
Ho Chi Minh / Introduced by Walden Bello – Down With Colonialism!
The Levellers / Introduced by Geoffrey Robinson – The Putney Debates
Toussaint L’Ouverture / Introduced by Jean-Bertrand Aristide – The Haitian Revolution
Karl Marx / Introduced by Alain Badiou – The Civil War in France
Thomas Paine / Introduced by Peter Linebaugh – The Rights of Man and Common Sense
Leon Trotsky / Introduced by Slavoj Zizek – Terrorism and Communism
Thomas Müntzer / Introduced by Wu Ming – Sermon to the Princes
Mary Wollstonecraft / Introduced by Sheila Rowbotham – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman