Book strip #1

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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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  Critique of Everyday Life

  by Henri Lefebvre

  The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is now availabl...
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  Adventures in Marxism

  by Marshall Berman

  A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. The attention attracted by the 150th anniversary of The Co...
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  Captives

  by Jarrod Shanahan

  Captives combines a thrilling narrative account of Rikers Island’s descent into infamy with a dramatic retelling of the last seventy years of New York and American politics from the vantage point o...
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  The Long Twentieth Century

  by Giovanni Arrighi

  The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long cent...
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  The Boom and the Bubble

  by Robert Brenner

  A sustained period of significant growth in the US, however, seemed to save the day against all the odds. So impressive was the surface appearance of this rescue mission that all manner of commenta...
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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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  City of Quartz

  by Mike Davis

  No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mi...
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  The Commune Form

  by Kristin Ross

  When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their daily lives collectively. Contemporary struggles ...