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  October

  by China Miéville

  In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining t...
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  Crashing the Party

  by Heather Gautney

  Foreword by Adolph L. Reed Jr.

  Senator Bernie Sanders won 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary, giving a consensus unbeatable party favorite, Hillary Clinton, a shockingly close challeng...
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  Atlas of Emotion

  by Giuliana Bruno

  Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and pictures, emphasises that “sight” and “site” but also “motion” ...
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  May Day Manifesto 1968

  Introduction by Owen Jones

  Edited by Raymond Williams

  The original publication of the May Day Manifesto in 1967 collected together the most influential radical voices of the era. Among the seventy signatories were Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Stu...
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  The Dilemmas of Lenin

  by Tariq Ali

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowle...
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  Late Marx and the Russian Road

  Edited by Teodor Shanin

  The intensive research coupled with public silence during the last decade of Marx's life represented a new, theoretical 'post-Capital' threshold. This phase corresponded – not accidentally – with i...
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  Municipal Dreams

  by John Boughton

  Traversing the nation, Municipal Dreams offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, and in doing so offers an engrossing social history of housing i...
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  On Karl Marx

  by Ernst Bloch

  This study of Marx serves not only as an excellent introduction to that most influential of "worldly philosophers" but is also a significant resume of the central issues of Bloch's own profound and...
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  Really Existing Nationalisms

  by Erica Benner

  Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two thinkers had a much bett...
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  The Theory of Need in Marx

  by Agnes Heller

  The basic discoveries underlying Marx's critique of political economy – labour power, surplus value, use value – are all in some way built upon the concept of need. From Marx's varying and passing ...
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  Vertical

  by Stephen Graham

  Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world.Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map...
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  From Marxism to Post-Marxism?

  by Göran Therborn

  A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politicsIn this pithy and panoramic work - both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to ...
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  What Goes Up

  by Michael Sorkin

  Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he charts the dehumanising regimes of mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio that created a cit...
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  The End of the French Intellectual

  by Shlomo Sand

  Translated by David Fernbach

  Internationally acclaimed Israeli historian Shlomo Sand made his mark with books such as The Invention of the Jewish People and The Invention of the Land of Israel. Returning here to an early fasci...
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  Hara Hotel

  by Teresa Thornhill

  Hara Hotel chronicles everyday life in a makeshift refugee camp on the forecourt of a petrol station in northern Greece. In the first two months of 2016, more than 100,000 refugees arrived in Greec...
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  The Extreme Centre

  by Tariq Ali

  In this fully updated edition of his coruscating polemic, Tariq Ali shows how, since 1989, politics has become a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wide-r...
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  Deport, Deprive, Extradite

  by Nisha Kapoor

  When Minh Pham was extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism related charges, his appeal against the deprivation of his British citizenship was still pending. Soon after he arrived his ap...
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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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  The Production of Money

  by Ann Pettifor

  According to leading economist Ann Pettifor, one of the few people to predict the 2008 financial crisis, money is not a commodity but a promise. This radical reconsideration of the power of money m...
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  Police

  by David Correia and Tyler Wall

  This book armed activists on the streets—as well as the many who have become concerned about police abuse—with a critical analysis and ultimately a redefinition of the very idea of policing. The b...
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  Speaking of Universities

  by Stefan Collini

  In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects than ever to...
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  Work

  by Andrea Komlosy

  Translated by Loren Balhorn and Jacob Watson

  Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history ...
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  The Zad and NoTAV

  by Mauvaise Troupe

  Preface by Kristin Ross

  Translated by Kristin Ross

  At a time of ever more accelerated and expanded development of natural and agricultural territory, in the aim of making targeted areas more profitable and controllable, there are inhabitants who op...
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  Climate Leviathan

  by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright

  **Winner of the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize**Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. Th...
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  The Crisis in Physics

  by Christopher Caudwell

  Christopher Caudwell’s The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities. Caudwell provides a trenchant critique...
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  Europe's Fault Lines

  by Elizabeth Fekete

  It is clear that the right is on the rise, but after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity of extreme-right parties across Europe, the question on everyone’s minds is: ho...
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  The Great Cowboy Strike

  by Mark Lause

  Although later made an icon of “rugged individualism,” the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated an...
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  Greece and the Reinvention of Politics

  by Alain Badiou

  In a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badou analyses the decisive developments in Greece since 2011. Badiou considers this Mediterranean country “a sort of open-air political lesson”, ...
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  The Postconceptual Condition

  by Peter Osborne

  If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, “it is the function of artistic form…to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that trut...
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  Order Out of Chaos

  by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

  Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stenger...
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  The New Spirit of Capitalism

  by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello

  Translated by Gregory Elliott

  In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have fo...
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  Marxism and the Philosophy of Science

  by Helena Sheehan

  Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characteriz...
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  The Progress of This Storm

  by Andreas Malm

  An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Ev...
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  The Right to Have Rights

  by Stephanie DeGooyer, Alastair Hunt, Samuel Moyn and Astra Taylor

  Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the “inalienable” Rights of Man—before there ca...
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  Serve the People

  by Karen L. Ishizuka

  Foreword by Jeff Chang

  The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a defi...
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  Unexceptional Politics

  by Emily Apter

  Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, b...
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  The World, the Flesh and the Devil

  by J.D. Bernal

  Introduction by McKenzie Wark

  Deemed by Arthur C. Clarke to be "the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made", The World, the Flesh and the Devil is most famous for having been the first to propose the so-calle...
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  Supercommunity

  by E-Flux

  “I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to ...
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  The Age of Jihad

  by Patrick Cockburn

  Cockburn was the first Western journalist to warn of the dangers posed by Islamic State. His originality and breadth of vision make The Age of Jihad the most in-depth analysis of the regional cr...
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  How Will Capitalism End?

  by Wolfgang Streeck

  In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contempo­rary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is on the cusp of enormous change. The marriage between democracy a...
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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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  Red Flag Unfurled

  by Ronald Suny

  Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historians of the period—explores the historiographical controversies...
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  Portraits

  by John Berger

  Edited by Tom Overton

  John Berger, one of the world’s most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artis...
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  Psychopolitics

  by Byung-Chul Han

  Translated by Erik Butler

  Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower...
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  Revolutionary Yiddishland

  by Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg

  Translated by David Fernbach

  Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishl...
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  Tear Gas

  by Anna Feigenbaum

  One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, te...
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  Extreme Cities

  by Ashley Dawson

  How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that ci...
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  Alt-America

  by David Neiwert

  Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterio...
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  Che

  by Spain Rodriguez

  Edited by Paul Buhle

  Since his murder 50 years ago in Bolivia, Ernesto “Che” Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. Thi...
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  The Least of All Possible Evils

  by Eyal Weizman

  The principle of the ‘lesser evil’—the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice—has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. ...