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Terrorism and Communism

by Leon Trotsky

Trotsky and Slavoj Žižek defend revolutionary violence

5 posts
Virtue and Terror

by Maximilien Robespierre

Robespierre’s justification of the Terror in the French Revolution

5 posts
Age of Folly

by Lewis H. Lapham

America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror

12 posts
Collected Works, Volume 1

by V. I. Lenin

Re-launch of the Collected Works of the legendary revolutionary in paperback

6 posts

Grand Hotel Abyss

by Stuart Jeffries

Who were the Frankfurt School—Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer—and why do they matter today?

34 posts
Fanaticism

by Alberto Toscano

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations

21 posts
Futures of Black Radicalism

Edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin

With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism

38 posts
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

by Ron Ramdin

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century

16 posts

No God But Gain

by Stephen Chambers

The decisive role of the illegal slave trade in the making of the United States

7 posts
The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister

by Sandra Rodríguez Nieto

The intimate story of a teenager's murder of his family, from award-winning Mexican journalist.

9 posts
Lavil

Edited by Evan Lyon and Peter Orner

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis

3 posts
The Autonomous City

by Alexander Vasudevan

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city

11 posts

Development Arrested

by Clyde Woods
A new edition of a classic history of the Mississippi River Delta
4 posts
The Origin of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?

36 posts
A People’s History of the World

by Chris Harman

A new edition of the bestselling comprehensive radical history of the planet

8 posts
Ten Myths About Israel

by Ilan Pappe

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The myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel.

17 posts

Twilight of History

by Shlomo Sand

The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today

6 posts
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

by Perry Anderson

“One of the world’s great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures.” —Jeet Heer, The New Republic

11 posts
The Battlefield

by Hugh Roberts
A radical corrective to Western misconceptions that reduce Algeria’s tragedy to a clash of stereotypes
2 posts
Fire and Blood

by Enzo Traverso

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes

30 posts

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