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Ellen Meiksins Wood

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A History of the Barricade

by Eric Hazan

How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history

26 posts
Politics in a Time of Crisis

by Pablo Iglesias

“Iglesias and his Podemos party are radically shaking up Spain’s political establishment.” – New York Times

84 posts
Against the Troika

by Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas
A radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity
154 posts
The Man Who Closed the Asylums

by John Foot

“A portrait of imperfect people who had the passion and pragmatism to put an end to a brutal and broken system.” – Financial Times

10 posts

Drought

by Ronald Fraser
A brilliant novel about memory, love, and the clash between the old world and the new, set in 1950s Spain
4 posts
The Dignity of Chartism

by Dorothy Thompson

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

6 posts
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else

by James Meek
How the British government packaged and sold its people to the world— winner of the Orwell Prize for Books.
26 posts
European Nations

by Miroslav Hroch

One of the world’s leading theorists of nationalism offers a new synthesis

29 posts

The Beach Beneath the Street

by McKenzie Wark

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

59 posts
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 Muslims Are Coming!

by Arun Kundnani
Powerful critique of UK and US surveillance and repression of Muslims and prosecution of homegrown terrorism
72 posts
Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism

Edited by Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks

This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies...

3 posts
Cultural Capital

by Robert Hewison
How money, politics and managerialism turned a golden age for culture into lead
8 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

31 posts

A Civil War

by Claudio Pavone
“Among the few indisputable masterpieces of contemporary history.” —Financial Times
15 posts
Tackling Rugby

by Allyson M. Pollock

What parents should know about the sports their children play

4 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....
Liberalism

by Domenico Losurdo

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

19 posts

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