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Slavoj Žižek

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Born Jewish

by Marcel Liebman

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

4 posts
A World to Win

by Sven-Eric Liedman

The definitive biography of Karl Marx

14 posts
The London Hanged

by Peter Linebaugh

This groundbreaking history aids any understanding of the rise of capitalism.

4 posts
The Many-Headed Hydra

by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women,...
9 posts

The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

The classic history of the Paris Commune.

27 posts
The Struggle for Tibet

by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya

Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet.

8 posts
Liberalism

by Domenico Losurdo

“A brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions.” – Financial Times

20 posts
War and Revolution

by Domenico Losurdo

Author of the acclaimed Liberalism: A Counter-History dissects the revisionist attempts to expunge or criminalize revolutions

13 posts

Redemption and Utopia

by Michael Löwy
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka
3 posts
States of Emergency

by Robert Lumley
“A fascinating account.”—Paul Ginsborg
4 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 Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III

by Rosa Luxemburg

11 posts

Lavil

Edited by Evan Lyon and Peter Orner

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis

2 posts
The Invention of Sicily

by Jamie Mackay

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands

4 posts
The Destruction of Yugoslavia

by Branka Magaš

A Yugoslavian’s analysis of her country’s descent into violence.
The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism

by Lucio Magri

A fascinating analysis and account of the decline and fall of Western communism by a participant observer

20 posts

Building the Commune

by Geo Maher

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy

25 posts
Fossil Capital

by Andreas Malm

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

43 posts
The Meaning of the Second World War

by Ernest Mandel

“One of the most creative and independent-minded revolutionary Marxists of the post-war world.”—The Guardian

4 posts
On Practice and Contradiction

by Mao Zedong

The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Žižek

6 posts

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