Book strip #1

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  Hyperpolitics

  by Anton Jäger

  What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how p...
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  The Story of Capital

  by David Harvey

  For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundriss...
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  How to See Like a Machine

  by Trevor Paglen

  Today our world is under the watchful and tireless eye of computer vision, with cam­eras and monitors tracing our every move. Furthermore, generative AI is now able to render a synthetic world indi...
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  The Alibi of Capital

  by Timothy Mitchell

  Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe o...
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  Mutual Aid

  by Dean Spade

  Mutual Aid is a radical handbook for anyone who grasps the severity of the global poly-crisis and wants a community-based means to fight back. Dean Spade — lawyer, academic, writer, and activist — ...
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  The Prophet Armed

  by Isaac Deutscher

  Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky’s extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible...
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  The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy

  by A.J.A. Woods

  “Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the term are rarely investigated. This book uncovers the bizarre story of the c...
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  The Global Casino

  by Ann Pettifor

  The global market in money – housed in the offshore ‘shadow’ banking system – holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation’s taxman. Asset managers, private e...
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  Crude Capitalism

  by Adam Hanieh

  **Awarded 2025 Best Book by an International Scholar, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association**This expansive history traces the hidden connections betwe...
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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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  The Eye of the Master

  by Matteo Pasquinelli

  What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as i...
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  Gaza

  Edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro

  Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destructio...
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  Control Science

  by Henry Snow

  Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seven­teenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers—and new justifications for doing...
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  The Origin of Capitalism

  by Ellen Meiksins Wood

  In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, im...
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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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  A Philosophy of War

  by Frédéric Gros

  Translated by Gregory Elliott

  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seems to many like a throwback to another age, rattling Europe with memories of past horrors. But since the end of the Second World War there has not been a single day ...
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  Minima Moralia

  by Theodor Adorno

  Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott

  Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-cen...
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  The Palestine Laboratory

  by Antony Loewenstein

  Winner of the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeFinalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as ...
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  Aesthetics and Politics

  by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács

  Afterword by Fredric Jameson

  No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics...
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  The Years of Theory

  by Fredric Jameson

  Edited by Carson Welch

  Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lect...
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  The Internet Con

  by Cory Doctorow

  When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their syste...
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  Landscapes

  by John Berger

  Introduction by Tom Overton

  Edited by Tom Overton

  Landscapes showcases the development and practice of John Berger’s unique way of seeing. Here he surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished his understanding of t...
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  Axis of Empire

  by Afshin Matin-Asgari

  Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari’s accessible history of relations between the United States and Iran. The missionaries and educators who descended on Iran i...
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  Extractive Capitalism

  by Laleh Khalili

  Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives...
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  Resisting Erasure

  by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah

  Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resi...
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  Health Communism

  by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant

  In this fiery, theoretical tour de force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism and argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing th...
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  Capital's Grave

  by Jodi Dean

  Bringing together analyses from different fields—law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis—Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn’t just a m...