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Slavoj Žižek

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Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.
1 post
History and Revolution

Edited by Mike Haynes and Jim Wolfreys
Confronting conservative and revisionist trends in historical enquiry.
8 posts
A History of Gold and Money

by Pierre Vilar
“A work of sweeping scholarship, it is impressive and welcome in English.”—The Economist
6 posts
A History of the Barricade

by Eric Hazan

How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history

33 posts

The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

The classic history of the Paris Commune.

27 posts
A History of Vodka

by William Pokhlebkin

“Very learned, very informative.”—Victor Kiernan

2 posts
The Holocaust Industry

by Norman G. Finkelstein

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain

17 posts
Homage to Chiapas

by Bill Weinberg
Vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy.
1 post

Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

by Richard Gott
A revealing account of the leader at the forefront of Latin America’s socialist revolution.
16 posts
I, Rigoberta Menchú

by Rigoberta Menchú
The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
12 posts
If They Come in the Morning …

Edited by Angela Y. Davis

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power

73 posts
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

by Norman G. Finkelstein

A fully updated new edition, by the author of The Holocaust Industry.

21 posts

Imagined Communities

by Benedict Anderson
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism
36 posts
An Impatient Life

by Daniel Bensaïd

“France’s leading Marxist public intellectual.” –Tariq Ali

23 posts
In Defence of the Terror

by Sophie Wahnich
Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying
14 posts
In Hiding

by Ronald Fraser
“So brief and yet so complete, so movingly human.”—Arthur Miller, New York Times
5 posts

The Indian Ideology

by Perry Anderson

"Well sourced and artfully crafted, offering a comprehensive history of India’s ideology” – Jacobin

8 posts
An Injury to All

by Kim Moody
Exposing the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.
10 posts
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

29 posts
The Invention of Paris

by Eric Hazan

A radical guide to Paris through art, literature and revolution.

54 posts

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