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Dissidents among Dissidents

by Ilya Budraitskis

What happened to the left in Russia?
Revolution: An Intellectual History

by Enzo Traverso

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century’s age of revolutions

3 posts
Cities of Power

by Göran Therborn
Why are cities centres of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics
6 posts
The Concept of the Social

by Malcolm Bull

From here to utopia. New directions in political theory

1 post

Revolution and Counterrevolution in China

by Lin Chun

A major new contribution to the study of China’s revolutions and counterrevolutions over the past century

1 post
The World Turned Inside Out

by Lorenzo Veracini

Settler colonialism and social control

3 posts
The Apocalypse and the End of History

by Suzanne Schneider

How the political violence of modern jihad echoes the crises of western liberalism

4 posts
Full Surrogacy Now

by Sophie Lewis

Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the “family”

17 posts

The Tragedy of the Worker

by The Salvage Collective

Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse

9 posts
The Last Man Takes LSD

by Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora

Foucault’s personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal politics

5 posts
Being Numerous

by Natasha Lennard
An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today
16 posts
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

by Erik Olin Wright

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?

25 posts

Prophets of Deceit

by Norbert Guterman and Leo Löwenthal

How authoritarian and racist discourse functions

2 posts
The Imperial Mode of Living

by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

Our unsustainable life: why we can’t have everything we want

1 post
A Critical Theory of Police Power

by Mark Neocleous

Putting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism

10 posts
How I Became A Socialist

by William Morris

The definitive collection of political writings from William Morris.

3 posts

Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy

by Göran Therborn

A global panorama of liberal democracies from a renowned social theorist

3 posts
Futures of Socialism

Edited by Grace Blakeley

How should the left respond to electoral defeat, the leadership of Keir Starmer and a global crisis?

11 posts
Critical Encounters

by Wolfgang Streeck

An anthology of long-read book reviews by one of the European left’s foremost political economists

2 posts
Mutual Aid

by Dean Spade

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

15 posts

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