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  How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

  by Walter Rodney

  Foreword by Angela Davis

  How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, R...
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  Decolonial Marxism

  by Walter Rodney

  Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and o...
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  The Groundings With My Brothers

  by Walter Rodney

  In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, th...

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  Stealing Horses to Great Applause

  by Paul W. Schroeder

  Introduction by Perry Anderson

  Stealing Horses to Great Applause is arguably the finest consideration yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts focusing on the actions of a single state or the final count...
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  The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

  by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

  Preface by Eric Hazan

  Translated by Eleanor Marx

  In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of being exploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the outstanding history of the Commune, theh...
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  The Meaning of the Second World War

  by Ernest Mandel

  The very scale of the 1939–45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the ...

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  The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery

  by Robin Blackburn

  In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation coloni...
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  The Making of New World Slavery

  by Robin Blackburn

  The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought—succes...
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  The Reckoning

  by Robin Blackburn

  The Age of Revolution (1776–1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a ‘Second Slavery’ surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a sy...

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  The Barrel of a Gun

  by Ruth First

  Foreword by Christopher J Lee

  A committed communist and anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First dedicated her life to African liberation struggles until her assas­sination by South Africa’s Special Branch in 1982. The Barrel of a G...
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  My Country, Africa

  by Andrée Blouin

  with Jean Mackellar

  Epilogue by Eve Blouin

  Foreword by Adom Getachew and Thomas Meaney

  Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman in Africa—played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and ’60s, advising the postcolonial lead...
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  Everybody Loves a Good Drought

  by Palagummi Sainath

  Acclaimed worldwide, Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the acknowledged classic on rural poverty in India. Three decades after publication, it remains unsurpassed in the scope and depth of its repo...

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  Empire Ablaze

  by Tom Cutterham

  As revolution raged in North America, James Aitken – house painter, highwayman, and escaped indentured servant – wandered the colonies formulating a dramatic plan to cripple the British navy by des...
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  Revolutions

  by Donald Sassoon

  Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the fall of the Bastille or the storming of the Winte...
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  The Captains' Coup

  by Wilfred Burchett

  Afterword by Tariq Ali

  Edited by Daniela Melo and Timothy Walker

  Wilfred Burchett went to Lisbon in 1974 to cover the military overthrow of the fascist dictatorship that had ruled the country for nearly five decades. Burchett’s on-the-ground reporting details th...

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  The Paris Commune

  by Quentin Deluermoz

  In 1871 and over the years to follow, the impact of the Paris Commune was felt the world over. Concepts and practices developed there were taken up in all corners of Europe and travelled as far afi...
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  The Future of Revolution

  by Jasper Bernes

  Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of thinkers such as Marx and C. L. R. J...
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  A Spanish Commune

  by Jeanne Moisand

  The Paris Commune had a little Spanish sister, the Canton of Cartagena, whose impressive and neglected history is unearthed in this book.In July 1873, thousands of men and women proclaimed a Commun...

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  Red Valkyries

  by Kristen Ghodsee

  Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe, following the lives and careers of five prominent women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the aristocrati...
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  The History of Disruption

  by Mehmet Dosemeci

  Why do we think of social struggles as movements? Have struggles been practiced otherwise, not as motion but as interruption, occupation, disturbance, arrest? Looking at three hundred years of Atla...
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  Everything Is Now

  by J. Hoberman

  Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs...

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  Heart Of The Race

  by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe

  Introduction by Lola Okolosie

  Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting...

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  A World to Win

  by Sven-Eric Liedman

  Translated by Jeff Skinner

  Karl Marx has fascinated and inspired generations of radicals in the past 200 years. In this new, definitive biography, Sven-Eric Liebman makes his work live once more for a new generation. Despite...

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  Algiers, Third World Capital

  by Elaine Mokhtefi

  Introduction by Jeremy Harding

  Mokhtefi (née Klein), a Jewish American from Long Island, has had an exhilarating life. In the 1960s, she served as a press adviser to the National Liberation Front in postwar Algiers, before going...

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  Prisoners of the American Dream

  by Mike Davis

  Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industriall...

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  The Putney Debates

  by The Levellers

  Introduction by Geoffrey Robertson

  Edited by Philip Baker

  In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in ...

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  The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

  by Ron Ramdin

  This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the changing patterns of Britain’s labour needs. It places in an historical context the developm...

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  The Russian Revolution

  by Walter Rodney

  Afterword by Vijay Prashad

  Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley

  Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney FoundationIntroduction by Robin D.G. KelleyAfterword by Vijay PrashadIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the...

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  The Indian Ideology

  by Perry Anderson

  The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s most pop...

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  Opening the Gates

  by Donald Reid

  In the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national cause and controversy. The Lip occupation and self-management experience captured the imagination of the...

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  Uprising in Pakistan

  by Tariq Ali

  The story of what happened in 1968 in Pakistan is often forgotten, but is yet another proof that the revolutionary moment was global. In that year, following a long period of tumult, a radical coal...

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  Revolution in the Air

  by Max Elbaum

  Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of how radicals from the sixties movements embraced twentieth-century Marxism, and what movements of dissent today can learn from the legacies of Lenin...

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  An Act of State

  by William F. Pepper

  On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers' strike. By nightfall, army snipers were in position, military officers were on a nearby roof with cameras, and Lloyd Jowers ...

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  I, Rigoberta Menchú

  by Rigoberta Menchú

  Introduction by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray

  Edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray

  Translated by Ann Wright

  Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross i...

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  American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

  by Perry Anderson

  Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the dive...

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  Lineages of the Absolutist State

  by Perry Anderson

  Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up from where its companion volume, Passages from Antiq...

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  Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

  by Perry Anderson

  Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of th...

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  Peasant-Citizen and Slave

  by Ellen Meiksins Wood

  The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented ...

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  The American Crucible

  by Robin Blackburn

  For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this “peculiar institution” an...

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  The Leveller Revolution

  by John Rees

  The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees bring...

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  Reformation to Industrial Revolution

  by Christopher Hill

  In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 she possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialized power in the world. This book deals with the intervening 250 ...