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Slavoj Žižek

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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

22 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

39 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

17 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.

8 posts
Lavil

Edited by Evan Lyon and Peter Orner

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis

2 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?

40 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

13 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

32 posts
The Non-Jewish Jew

by Isaac Deutscher
Essays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics
4 posts
Redemption and Utopia

by Michael Löwy
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka
3 posts
The Shock of the Anthropocene

by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”

25 posts

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