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The Art of Cloning

by Pang Laikwan

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity

5 posts
Communal Luxury

by Kristin Ross

Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century

44 posts
Beyond Black and White

by Manning Marable
Highly acclaimed dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time
47 posts
If They Come in the Morning …

Edited by Angela Y. Davis

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power

71 posts

The Mosaic of Islam

by Suleiman Mourad

A comprehensive introduction to the faith and politics of Islam

6 posts
Molecular Red

by McKenzie Wark

Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century

65 posts
Rebel Crossings

by Sheila Rowbotham

The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century

18 posts
The Religion of the Future

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
A new philosophy of religion for a secular world
5 posts

Building the Commune

by Geo Maher

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy

24 posts
The Soviet Century

by Moshe Lewin

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fall

11 posts
Imagined Communities

by Benedict Anderson
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism
36 posts
My First Life

by Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary story—in his own words

8 posts

Benjamin and Brecht

by Erdmut Wizisla
A fascinating account of the friendship between two of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century
8 posts
Iran Without Borders

by Hamid Dabashi
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran
6 posts
Iran Without Borders

by Hamid Dabashi
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran
6 posts
The Last Communard

by Gavin Bowd

The story of an unexpected hero

18 posts

Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy

15 posts
Fossil Capital

by Andreas Malm

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power

48 posts
In Defence of the Terror

by Sophie Wahnich
Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying
14 posts
Everything to Nothing

by Geert Buelens

The poets’ Great War: violence, revolution and modernism

8 posts

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