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The Left Alternative

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

A manifesto that engages a vital question: where should the Left go from here?

3 posts
The Food Wars

by Walden Bello

Crucial analysis of how the West created the global food crisis.
Gender Equality

Edited by Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers
An urgent call for real-world solutions to gender inequality.
9 posts
The Rights of Man and Common Sense

by Thomas Paine
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."—Thomas Paine
1 post

The Democratic Paradox

by Chantal Mouffe

A new understanding of democracy that acknowledges the inescapable and essential antagonism in its workings.

12 posts
Lenin

by Georg Lukács
A trenchant account of Leninism from a giant of Marxist philosophy.
17 posts
Reading Capital

by Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar
A landmark of French thought, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations.
31 posts
Ernest Mandel

by Jan Willem Stutje

First ever biography of one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of late capitalism.

4 posts

Antagonistics

by Gopal Balakrishnan
A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today.
5 posts
The Fragile Absolute

by Slavoj Žižek

Argues that the subversive core of the Christian legacy forms the foundation of a politics of universal emancipation.

5 posts
The Sublime Object of Ideology

by Slavoj Žižek

Exploring the ideologies fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.

9 posts
The Ticklish Subject

by Slavoj Žižek

A specter is haunting Western thought, the specter of the Cartesian subject.

3 posts

Adding Insult to Injury

by Nancy Fraser
A controversial look at the social politics of equality and cultural politics of difference.
8 posts
Another Knowledge Is Possible

Edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Third volume of the acclaimed series Reinventing Social Emancipation.

4 posts
The Threat to Reason

by Dan Hind

A vital defence of the Enlightenment as a democratic force against state and corporation.

1 post
Political Interventions

by Pierre Bourdieu
Urgent political writings of the major twentieth-century sociologist.
1 post

For They Know Not What They Do

by Slavoj Žižek

The eminent philosopher explodes the roles of pleasure and desire in contemporary politics and culture.

2 posts
Spinoza and Politics

by Etienne Balibar and Warren Montag
A rich analysis of Spinoza's key works, in the context of his political and ideological associations.
23 posts
A Study on Authority

by Herbert Marcuse
The great theorist of radical liberation analyzes the relationship between authority and freedom.
8 posts
What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?

by Göran Therborn

The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.

6 posts

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