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The Comrade from Milan

by Rossana Rossanda

A striking account of the European Left in the twentieth century by one of its main protagonists

17 posts
An Event, Perhaps

by Peter Salmon

Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques Derrida

8 posts
Algiers, Third World Capital

by Elaine Mokhtefi

A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics

18 posts
Yesterday’s Man

by Branko Marcetic

A deep dive into Joe Biden’s history and the origins of his political values

6 posts

Born Jewish

by Marcel Liebman

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

3 posts
Carlos Slim

by Diego Osorno

Can one of the richest men in the world be a good person?

3 posts
Imperial Intimacies

by Hazel V. Carby

A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman’s family story

10 posts
Outsider in the White House

by Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders’s political autobiography

33 posts

Promise of a Dream

by Sheila Rowbotham

A sparkling portrait of a time when women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world

1 post
Eugene V. Debs

by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, et al.

A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs

8 posts
A World to Win

by Sven-Eric Liedman

The definitive biography of Karl Marx

14 posts
The Lives of Michel Foucault

by David Macey

3 posts

Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography

by J.P. Nettl

15 posts
The Day After the Revolution

by V. I. Lenin

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Žižek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important today

13 posts
A Writer of Our Time

by Joshua Sperling

The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger

12 posts
So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir

by Michael Rosen

The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner

4 posts

A Life Beyond Boundaries: A Memoir

by Benedict Anderson

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities

13 posts
The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, et al.

A powerful document of theday-to-day realities of Black women in Britain

26 posts
Eleanor Marx

by Yvonne Kapp

Yvonne Kapp’s monumental biography of the daughter of Karl Marx who became a radical activist

12 posts
The Dilemmas of Lenin

by Tariq Ali

The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia

24 posts

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