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Direct Action

by L.A. Kauffman
A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now
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In the Long Run We Are All Dead

by Geoff Mann

A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crises

6 posts
Planet of Slums

by Mike Davis
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live
22 posts
How Will Capitalism End?

by Wolfgang Streeck
The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper
23 posts
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

by Sigmund Freud
The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysis
2 posts
Vertical

by Stephen Graham
A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet
9 posts
The Ministry of Nostalgia

by Owen Hatherley

Why should we have to “Keep Calm and Carry On”?

10 posts
The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640–1650

by John Rees
The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution
9 posts
The Art of Cloning

by Laikwan Pang

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

by Juliet Jacques
An extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture
28 posts
Disaster Capitalism

by Antony Loewenstein

How Capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe

18 posts
Against Everything

by Mark Greif
A brilliant collection of essays from one of the most highly acclaimed young writers in the US

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Grand Hotel Abyss

by Stuart Jeffries
This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter today
13 posts
Four Futures

by Peter Frase
An exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society
13 posts
The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim
Fully updated compendium of revolt and resistance
28 posts
Landscapes

by John Berger

“John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel how to stare at things until we see what we thought wasn’t there. But above all, he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master.” — Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

13 posts
Portraits

by John Berger
“A volume whose breadth and depth bring it close to a definitive self-portrait of one of Britain’s most original thinkers” – Financial Times
23 posts
The Storyteller

by Walter Benjamin
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories
19 posts
Utopia

by Thomas More
Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers
9 posts
If They Come in the Morning …

Edited by Angela Y. Davis
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power
22 posts
Red Rosa

by Kate Evans

“Utterly brilliant” – Steve Bell, Guardian

22 posts
Policing the Planet

Edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton

A New York Public Library pick for "A Reading List of America"

37 posts
Revolutionary Yiddishland

by Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg
Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition
6 posts
Close to Home

by Christine Delphy
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
19 posts
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

by Kumari Jayawardena
A founding text of transnational feminism
10 posts
The Age of Jihad

by Patrick Cockburn
From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East’s disintegration
16 posts
Inventing the Future

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
A major new manifesto for the end of capitalism
36 posts
How Did We Get into This Mess?

by George Monbiot
Where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it
13 posts
Violent Borders

by Reece Jones
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed
34 posts
Imagined Communities

by Benedict Anderson
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism
23 posts
Rebel Crossings

by Sheila Rowbotham
The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century
7 posts
Reading Capital

by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, et al.
A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time
26 posts
Critique of Everyday Life

by Henri Lefebvre
Lefebvre's classic analysis of daily life under capitalism in one complete volume
20 posts
Metaphilosophy

by Henri Lefebvre
Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thought
7 posts
In Defense of Housing

by David Madden and Peter Marcuse
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?
13 posts

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Fire and Blood

by Enzo Traverso
Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes
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Judaism and Modernity

by Gillian Rose
A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida
The Last Resistance

by Jacqueline Rose
A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times
2 posts
The Non-Jewish Jew

by Isaac Deutscher
Essays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics

The Production of Money

by Ann Pettifor
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?
2 posts
Redemption and Utopia

by Michael Löwy
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka
The Shock of the Anthropocene

by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”
14 posts
Speaking of Universities

by Stefan Collini
A devastating analysis of what is happening to our universities
4 posts

Buying Time

by Wolfgang Streeck
“Reminds one of Karl Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.” —Jürgen Habermas
75 posts
Dirty Secrets

by Richard Murphy
What happens when the rich are allowed to hide their money in tax havens, and what we should do about it
1 post
Direct Action

by L.A. Kauffman
A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now
12 posts
The New Way of the World

by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval

A far-reaching deconstruction of neoliberalism’s economic agenda, political imposition and mystifying techniques

13 posts

Redemption Song

by Mike Marqusee
A classic book that traces Muhammad Ali’s political development in the sixties
8 posts
The Bonds of Debt

by Richard Dienst

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life

8 posts
The Experience of Defeat

by Christopher Hill
What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?
6 posts
The Hegel Variations

by Fredric Jameson
Master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics.
10 posts

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