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Slavoj Žižek

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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
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 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

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
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

The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, et al.

A powerful document of theday-to-day realities of Black women in Britain

24 posts
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

22 posts
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

by Mike Davis

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States

26 posts
The Communist Horizon

by Jodi Dean

10 posts

Eleanor Marx

by Yvonne Kapp

Yvonne Kapp’s monumental biography of the daughter of Karl Marx who became a radical activist

11 posts
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

by Slavoj Žižek

From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.

15 posts
Living in the End Times

by Slavoj Žižek

Žižek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.”

45 posts
The Russian Revolution

by Walter Rodney

Renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy

10 posts

The Blanqui Reader

by Louis Auguste Blanqui

First English-language collection of writings by the legendary nineteenth-century insurrectionist

3 posts
The E.U.: An Obituary

by John R. Gillingham

Is Brexit the beginning of the end for the EU?

33 posts
Opening the Gates

by Donald Reid

How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labor struggles after May 1968

11 posts
Uprising in Pakistan

by Tariq Ali

Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolution

5 posts

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