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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

23 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

27 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

14 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
October

by China Miéville

Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down

28 posts

May Day Manifesto 1968

Edited by Raymond Williams

Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto

9 posts
The Dilemmas of Lenin

by Tariq Ali

The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia

25 posts
Street Fighting Years

by Tariq Ali

One of the world’s best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement

21 posts
The End of the French Intellectual

by Shlomo Sand

Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia

1 post

Revolution in the Air

by Max Elbaum

The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968

17 posts
An Act of State

by William F. Pepper

The definitive account of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination

7 posts
Work

by Andrea Komlosy

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

9 posts
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science

by Helena Sheehan

A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science

3 posts

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