Israelis and palestinians

A lifelong activist, Moshé Machover's essays, written as an Israeli socialist in solidarity with the Palestinian people, are collected here.

Education and capitalism

In this collection teachers from across the country unravel the lies spun about public education by corporate board room reformers.”

Mayor 1%

Lydersen lambasts Chicago's nationally recognized mayor for his obedient endorsement of the devastating austerity agenda set forth by the one-percent.

People wasn't made to burn

The long-buried story of a Chicagoan's struggle for justice after four of his children perished in a tragic fire.

What was neoliberalism?

Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era. While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how...

Rosa luxemburg: the incendiary spark

Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Löwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary. Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Löwy’s essays illuminate the heroic, tough-minded idealist and martyr, Rosa Luxemburg. Active in the labor and socialist movements of Germany...

Building the party

The mandate of heaven

The essential Marxist history of China under Mao.

Occupation: organizer

A trenchant history of community organizing and a must-read for the next generation of organizers seeking to learn from the successes, failures, and contradictions of the past. The community organizing tradition is long overdue for reexamination. In Occupation: Organizer, scholar and activist Cl...

Beginning again

Appalachia has been a place of movement and migration—for individuals, families, and entire communities—for centuries. Beginning Again brings together twelve narratives of refugees, migrants, and generations-long residents that explore complex journeys of resettlement. In their stories, Appalachi...

The architecture of modern empire

Whether discussing her childhood or the problems of translation in a multilingual society, Roy and Barsamian, the producer and host of Alternative Radio, engage in a lively and accessible manner.

Rifqa

Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of I...

The mother of all questions

Rebecca Solnit’s timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism.

Los hombres me explican cosas

A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word “mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.

China in global capitalism

As the rivalry between the US and China enters a dangerous new phase, reaffirming the politics of anti-imperialism is a task more important than ever. From trade wars and pandemic politics to rioting workers, intercontinental balloons, and battles over TikTok, the US media tends to present contem...

I am troy davis

ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2011, Troy Anthony Davis was put to death by the State of Georgia. Davis’s execution was protested by hundreds of thousands across the globe. How did one man capture the world’s imagination and become the iconic face for the campaign to end the death penalty? I Am Troy Davis, co...

Voices of the future

NBA star Etan Thomas helps give voice to the poetic and socially conscious ideas of young people.

Enemy feminisms

From the author of Abolish the Family, an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms, making the case instead for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we need. In recent years, “white feminism” and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won’t ma...

L-vis lives!

L-vis Lives! in this poetic novella on the collision or race, art, and appropriation in American culture.

Dead cities

For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises—was always a central part of his urban geography. In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks...

On history

In a wide-ranging conversation, filmmaker Oliver Stone and writer Tariq Ali discuss world history from the seventh century to today.

The false prophets of peace

This critique of Left Zionism argues a Jewish-only state cannot offer peace or justice for Palestinians

The case for socialism (updated edition)

A clear, bold case for a socialist alternative to democratically meet people's needs here and abroad.

The american way of war

The creator of TomDispatch takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe.

Lessons for our struggle

The healthy growth of the Occupy Wall Street movement depends on a proper understanding of past struggles.

El caso por socialismo

Something different—an alternative to capitalism—is desperately needed. But what should replace it?

Learning to live in the dark

In these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays, Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes. After three decades of failed international efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change, progressiv...

Media, ideology and hegemony

Media, Ideology and Hegemony equips readers with the essential tools they need to think critically about the new digital world.

Co-operativism and local development in cuba

A series of pathbreaking essays on the role of co-operativism, and the new co-operatives, in the democratic transformation of Cuba.

Reaction formation: dialogism, ideology, and capitalist culture

A ground-breaking new examination of the formation of the modern unconscious

Value and crisis

A landmark collection of essays by renowned Marxist political economist Alfredo Saad-Filho.

The sociogony

Drawing on Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, Mark Worrell re-examines the social ontology of "social facts' in the wake of the shift from bourgeois liberalism to global neoliberalism.

Bringing back the social into the sociology of religion

Based on original empirical research, the contributions collected here make possible a fuller sociological understanding of power, emotions, the self, and ethnic relations in religious life.

The french revolution and social democracy

The first full-length study of German and Austrian social-democratic readings of the French Revolution, now available in English.

Revolution and its alternatives

In this apposite study, Tom Brass explores the relationship between the political subject and the politics of the radical right in the absence of class-based projects of the left.

The rest write back

A timely collection of essays examining the legacies and politics of knowledge production and the writing-back paradigm.

The "greek crisis" in europe

This important study critically assesses the role of the mainstream media in shaping the politics and the popular understanding of the “Greek Crisis.”

The antagonistic principle

In this ground-breaking contribution to political theory, Modenesi re-establishes the centrality of Marxism in conceptualizing political action.

State and revolution in finland

Risto Alapuro, through a comparative and historical study of the Finnish revolution, provides a pertinent account of how upheavals in powerful countries impact smaller countries.

Marx, women, and capitalist social reproduction

This essential volume selects the key essays of renowned Marxist Feminist, and theorist of social reproduction, Martha E. Giménez.

Intelligent materialism

This volume collects the lucid and engaging works of Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov on the topic of Hegel and dialectics

Alliance of adversaries

The 1922 Congress of Toilers of the Far East was among the most influential and impactful gatherings of the Communist International. This volume brings it to life through edited and annotated minutes.

Neoliberalism's war on higher education

Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education, short-changing a generation of young people.

The ballot, the streets—or both

Lenin's Electoral Strategy focuses on Lenin's approach to electoral politics and what he and other Marxists terms the institutions of bourgeois democracy, drawing on Bolshevik debates and Marx and Engel's own writings to show this to be a central feature of their revolutionary strategy.

Middle east studies after september 11

A sweeping, essential analysis of how, following 9/11, Middle Eastern Studies was transformed in the service of Empire

Marxism and sociology

An essential volume making available in English for the first time the key works of Polish Marxist Sociologist Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz

Digitalized finance

An innovative study of the relationship between the development of Information and Communication Technologies and the global financialization of economies.

Marx's philosophy of revolution in permanence for our day

This selection of writings by the Marxist-Humanist philosopher and revolutionary Raya Dunayevskaya grapples with major themes in Marx's ideas and activities.

Socialism and commodity production

Chattopadhyay convincingly shows that Marx's conception of socialism bears little resemblance to the single-party states often termed "socialist."

Invisible leviathan

This updated and expanded edition critically explores and makes significant contributions to the debate surrounding Karl Marx's "capitalist law of value.'