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Searching for Socialism

by Colin Leys and Leo Panitch

A new and essential history of the Labour New Left from Tony Benn to Jeremy Corbyn

11 posts
The Romance of American Communism

by Vivian Gornick

Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life

11 posts
A Woman Called Moses

by Jean-Christophe Attias

What if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know?
Algiers, Third World Capital

by Elaine Mokhtefi

A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics

17 posts

The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III

by Rosa Luxemburg

11 posts
War and Revolution

by Domenico Losurdo

Author of the acclaimed Liberalism: A Counter-History dissects the revisionist attempts to expunge or criminalize revolutions

13 posts
Liberty Against the Law

by Christopher Hill

A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of seventeenth-century England
Born Jewish

by Marcel Liebman

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

4 posts

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
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

A renowned historian introduces Mary Wollestonecraft’s seminal feminist tract

20 posts
One Man’s Terrorist

by Daniel Finn

A history of “the Troubles”: the radical politics of Republicanism.

6 posts

Fighting Sleep

by Franny Nudelman

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

1 post
Imperial Intimacies

by Hazel V. Carby

A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman’s family story

10 posts
Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property

by Steve Fraser

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

5 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

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?

3 posts
Poets of the Chinese Revolution

by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, et al.

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

2 posts
Riot. Strike. Riot

by Joshua Clover

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

53 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

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