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Red Friends: Internationalists in China's Struggle for Liberation

by John Sexton

The story of the friends and allies of the Chinese Revolution

2 posts
The Hidden Injuries of Class

by Jonathan Cobb and Richard Sennett

How to find dignity and a meaningful life in the modern city

3 posts
A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse

by David Harvey

David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversies

8 posts
Collected Works, Volume 4

by V. I. Lenin

Re-launch of the Collected Works of the legendary revolutionary in paperback

1 post

Mute Compulsion

by Søren Mau

A new Marxist theory of the abstract and impersonal forms of power in capitalism

4 posts
Marx’s Literary Style

by Ludovico Silva

A true understanding of Marx’s work requires a careful study of his literary choices

7 posts
The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting

by Alexander Vasudevan

Updated new edition: A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city

12 posts
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III

by Rosa Luxemburg

12 posts

The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony

by Perry Anderson

A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemony

10 posts
Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory

by Isabell Lorey

A queer feminist theory of democracy

1 post
Towards a Green Democratic Revolution: Left Populism and the Power of Affects

by Chantal Mouffe

Left Populism and the Power of Affects

2 posts
Health Communism

by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Panel”

7 posts

Power and Resistance: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Althusser

by Yoshiyuki Sato

A provocative reinterpretation of “(post-)structuralist” theory of power, depending on and criticising psychoanalytic theory

4 posts
Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing

by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean

The first collection of the writing of Black communist women.

5 posts
Self-Defense

by Elsa Dorlin

A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher

5 posts
Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

by Nancy Fraser

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite - and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world

14 posts

Is Socialism Possible in Britain?: Reflections on the Corbyn Years

by Andrew Murray

Selected as one of the 15 best political and current affairs books of 2022 by The Times

3 posts
Microverses

by Dylan Riley

Social theory for damaged times

5 posts
Our Bloc: How We Win

by James Schneider

A plan to win for the British left, from the co-founder of Momentum

5 posts
Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962–1988)

by Jacopo Galimberti

The first overview of the unique encounter between artists/architects/designers and prominent Marxist current Workerism (aka Operaismo)

2 posts

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