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Slavoj Žižek

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City of Segregation

by Andrea Gibbons

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles

4 posts
Collected Works, Volume 2

by V. I. Lenin
Reformation to Industrial Revolution: 1530–1780

by Christopher Hill

The masterful account of Britain’s reshaping as a modern nation

1 post
Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England

by Christopher Hill

How Puritanism made modern Britain

1 post

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

by Bernard Regan

The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed Palestine’s fate

5 posts
Reclaiming the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American History in the Twenty-First Century

by Pero G. Dagbovie

The past and future of black American history

3 posts
The Declarations of Havana

by Fidel Castro
Speeches by Fidel Castro in response to the US administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, introduced by Tariq Ali
11 posts
The Putney Debates

by The Levellers

The debates between the Levellers and Oliver Cromwell, introduced by Geoffrey Robertson

10 posts

Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx

by Stathis Kouvelakis

A remarkable history of the formation of Marxist thought

49 posts
A World to Win

by Sven-Eric Liedman

The definitive biography of Karl Marx

15 posts
Eugene V. Debs

by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, et al.

A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs

8 posts
The Burning Forest: India’s War Against the Maoists

by Nandini Sundar

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed

4 posts

Riot. Strike. Riot

by Joshua Clover

Political theorist Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming insurrection

55 posts
Afterlives of Chinese Communism

Edited by Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, et al.

Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao’s communist legacy?

2 posts
Poets of the Chinese Revolution

by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, et al.

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

2 posts
The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism

by Lucio Magri

A fascinating analysis and account of the decline and fall of Western communism by a participant observer

20 posts

Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property

by Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is the preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization

6 posts
Fighting Sleep

by Franny Nudelman

How the military used sleep as a weapon—and how soldiers fought back

1 post
The Declaration of Independence

by Thomas Jefferson

The explosive manifesto for the American Revolution, introduced by the co-author of Empire

3 posts
The Haitian Revolution

by Toussaint L'Ouverture
Haiti’s ousted premier on the leader of the world’s first black republic
5 posts

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