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Slavoj Žižek

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The Many-Headed Hydra

by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women,...
10 posts
Proletarian Nights

by Jacques Rancière
A classic text by Rancière on the intellectual thought of French workers in the 19th century.
20 posts
The Eitingons

by Mary-Kay Wilmers

A family history that explores the KGB, the fur trade, Freud and the assassination of Trotsky

4 posts
The Journey to Tahrir

Edited by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing

Leading analysts of Egypt on repression, dissent and the dramatic revolution

9 posts

A People's History of London

by Lindsey German and John Rees
The forgotten history of London: the world capital of revolution
21 posts
None of Us Were Like This Before

by Joshua E. S. Phillips
The legacy of torture in the “War on Terror,” told through the story of one tank battalion
10 posts
The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

The classic history of the Paris Commune.

27 posts
Marx and Freud in Latin America

by Bruno Bosteels
The turbulent continent through the eyes of Marx and Freud.
7 posts

Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

by Arno Mayer

An acclaimed history of the Holocaust.

7 posts
News For All the People

by Juan González and Joseph Torres

Bestselling narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story.

17 posts
Theatres of Memory

by Raphael Samuel

The classic, passionate plea to “remember what others forget.”

3 posts
Trampling Out the Vintage

by Frank Bardacke

A dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers

17 posts

The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

by Slavoj Žižek

The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests.

16 posts
Villains of All Nations

by Marcus Rediker
Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations...
3 posts
F

by Mei Zhi

China's first literary dissident's Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution.

2 posts
Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere

by Paul Mason

Eyewitness reporting and shrewd analysis from the many centers of the global movement for liberation.

80 posts

Being Arab

by Samir Kassir
A passionate meditation on contemporary Arab identity.
13 posts
Lineages of the Absolutist State

by Perry Anderson
Situating the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the background of European feudalism
9 posts
Marxism in the United States

by Paul Buhle
“Challenges the entire edifice of modern US cultural and political history.”—Monthly Review
5 posts
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

by Perry Anderson
How the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages
6 posts

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