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Slavoj Žižek

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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

by R. H. Tawney
A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism
4 posts
The Dignity of Chartism

by Dorothy Thompson

Groundbreaking studies of Britain’s first major working-class movement

8 posts
The Beach Beneath the Street

by McKenzie Wark

The acclaimed, readable history of the Situationist International by the author of A Hacker Manifesto

62 posts
La Lucha

by Jon Sack

A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlands

13 posts

Somanatha

by Romila Thapar
An explosive account, dispelling the myths and inventions of Hindu nationalism.
1 post
The Darkest Days

by Douglas Newton

A radical re-examination of the events surrounding Britain’s entry into the Great War

7 posts
Auschwitz Report

by Leonardo De Benedetti and Primo Levi
Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery
4 posts
An Impatient Life

by Daniel Bensaïd

“France’s leading Marxist public intellectual.” –Tariq Ali

23 posts

The Holocaust Industry

by Norman G. Finkelstein

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain

17 posts
The Prophet

by Isaac Deutscher

Classic biography of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, now collected in a single volume

31 posts
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I

by Rosa Luxemburg

First volume of a major project to publish the complete works of a remarkable social theorist

36 posts
The Bullet and the Ballot Box

by Aditya Adhikari

Twenty-first-century revolution in one of the remotest places in the world

3 posts

A Civil War

by Claudio Pavone
“Among the few indisputable masterpieces of contemporary history.” —Financial Times
14 posts
Narcoland

by Anabel Hernández
Explosive, best-selling account of Mexico’s drug cartels and the government-business nexus that enables them
18 posts
Outcast London

by Gareth Stedman Jones

At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators....
Captain Swing

by Eric Hobsbawm and George Rudé
The classic social history of the great English agricultural uprising of 1830, from two of the greatest modern historians
1 post

The Setting Sun

by Bart Moore-Gilbert

A moving literary memoir about a son's quest for the truth behind his father's colonial past

8 posts
The Enemy Within

by Seumas Milne

“The definitive account of the strike—the best book on the Thatcher era.” – Naomi Klein

15 posts
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland

by Shlomo Sand

Groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of The Invention of the Jewish People

43 posts
Yellow Peril!

by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats

“Smart, funny, and comprehensive.” — Nell Irvin Painter

3 posts

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