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The Bullet and the Ballot Box

by Aditya Adhikari

Twenty-first-century revolution in one of the remotest places in the world

2 posts
Kashmir: The Case for Freedom

by Tariq Ali, Hilal Bhatt, et al.
Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation.
14 posts
Uprising in Pakistan

by Tariq Ali

Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolution

5 posts
Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

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

14 posts

The Indian Ideology

by Perry Anderson

"Well sourced and artfully crafted, offering a comprehensive history of India’s ideology” – Jacobin

4 posts
The Spectre of Comparisons

by Benedict Anderson

How nationalism has shaped the political and cultural landscape of Southeast Asia.

9 posts
The Future as Cultural Fact

by Arjun Appadurai

Acclaimed author presents a decade's research toward creating an anthropology of the future.

4 posts
Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
15 posts

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
Poets of the Chinese Revolution

by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, et al.

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

2 posts
Revolution in the Air

by Max Elbaum

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

17 posts
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?

3 posts

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

1 post
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

23 posts
Down with Colonialism!

by Ho Chi Minh
Walden Bello on Ho Chi Minh’s inspirational anti-imperialism.
3 posts
The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

45 posts

China’s Twentieth Century

by Wang Hui

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

10 posts
The End of the Revolution

by Wang Hui

A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China’s “New Left.”

17 posts
The Myth of the Holy Cow

by D. N. Jha
A book the government of India demands be ritually burned.
2 posts
The Other

by Ryszard Kapuściński

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

2 posts

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