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The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68

Edited by Gavin Walker

The story of Japan’s forgotten radical 1968

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The Runaways

by Fatima Bhutto

“As compassionate as it is trenchant, this rare fiction is an illuminating guide through the great disorder of our times.” —Pankaj Mishra

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The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

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Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

28 posts

Russia without Putin

by Tony Wood

How the West’s obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia

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The Burmese Labyrinth

by Carlos Sardiña Galache

A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Myanmar and the origins of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas

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Kitchen Curse

by Eka Kurniawan

Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first time

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Afterlives of Chinese Communism

Edited by Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, et al.

Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao’s communist legacy?

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Poets of the Chinese Revolution

by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, et al.

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

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The Burning Forest: India’s War Against the Maoists

by Nandini Sundar

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed

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The Other

by Ryszard Kapuściński

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European

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Uprising in Pakistan

by Tariq Ali

Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolution

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Revolution in the Air

by Max Elbaum

The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968

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On Practice and Contradiction

by Mao Zedong

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

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The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism

by Achin Vanaik
The definitive analysis of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and the challenges for the radical Left
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The Art of Cloning

by Pang Laikwan

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity

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The Soviet Century

by Moshe Lewin

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fall

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The WikiLeaks Files

by WikiLeaks

What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire

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Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy

15 posts
China’s Twentieth Century

by Wang Hui

An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century

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