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A Common Treasury by Gerrard Winstanley
£17.34At the end of the English Civil War, Gerrard Winstanley and his comrades, known as Diggers, went to St. George's Hill, to farm the common land and to distribute the food for free amongst themselves. Winstanley's extraordinary writings from this period... -
Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921 by Colin Darch
RRP: £19.99£16.07Histories of the Russian Revolution often present the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as the central event, neglecting the diverse struggles of urban and rural revolutionaries across the heartlands of the Russian Empire. This book takes as its subject... -
Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism by Andrea D'Atri
RRP: £18.99£12.75Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? This book is a journey through the history of feminism. Using the concrete struggles of women, the Marxist feminist Andrea D'Atri... -
The Drift: Stopping America's Slide to Socialism by Kevin A Hassett 9781684512652
RRP: £28.99£17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512652Author Kevin A HassettFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm... -
From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia by Dan Slater
RRP: £30.00£22.82Why some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer-and why others haven'tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization-a spectacular record of development... -
Beyond Woke by Michael Rectenwald 9781943003372
RRP: £19.99£13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943003372Author Michael RectenwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter... -
Europe's Radical Left: From Marginality to the Mainstream? by Luke March 9781783485369
RRP: £42.00£41.09Although the most pernicious consequences of the crisis have apparently abated, the long-term political repercussions remain unclear. Whereas most attention has focused on the right-wing populist parties, the rejuvenation of the left is an unwritten... -
Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford 9780745338606
RRP: £18.99£12.75Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have anticipated. Contemporary machine-learning AI allows... -
Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent 9781455533022
£30.92How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US... -
The Spark that Lit the Revolution: Lenin in London and the Politics that Changed the World by Robert Henderson
RRP: £40.00£29.81Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian... -
Marxism and History: A Critical Introduct by S. H. Rigby
RRP: £25.00£17.92This critically aclaimed book, now in its second edition is firmly established as an essential guide to this recent historiographical debate.Adopted as a set book by the Open University.An indispensable guide to Marxist historiography for undergradu. . ... -
Contemporary Left Antisemitism by David Hirsh
RRP: £37.99£33.38Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews. This book looks at the kind of antisemitism which is tolerated or which goes unacknowledged in... -
The Equal Opportunities Revolution by James Heartfield
RRP: £8.99£6.20The Equal Opportunities Revolution explains why bosses took equal opportunities on board just as they were tearing up union rights at work. It asks why greater rights led to greater inequality, and why advances in race and sex equality ran alongside... -
The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: £20.00£12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707599Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the Us Army's Elite, 1956-1990 by James Stejskal 9781612008431
RRP: £16.99£11.08It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.The massive armies of... -
Malayan Emergency by Gerry Van Tonder 9781526707864
RRP: £14.99£10.95When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal... -
Flora Tristan: Feminism in the Age of George Sand: Feminist Classics by Sandra Dijkstra
£17.13Active in the 1830s and 1840s, Flora Tristan is best known for her book "Workers' Union", an account of the conditions of women and workers in Peru, London, Paris and the provinces of France. Regarded as something of a pariah, she was one of the first... -
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Rebellion by Tariq Ali
RRP: £16.99£11.87"Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be certain."Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there... -
Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel 9780691210339
RRP: £22.00£16.99What changes in China's modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategyActive Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of... -
Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy by Erik Olin Wright
£14.12What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power-it is not difficult to list capitalism's myriad injustices. But is... -
Nostalgia and the Post-War Labour Party: Prisoners of the Past by Richard Jobson 9781526113313
RRP: £25.00£21.58This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party's political development since 1951. In contrast to existing studies that have emphasised the role played by modernity, it argues that nostalgia has defined Labour's identity and... -
Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and the Peripheries of Capitalism by Teodor Shanin 9780853456476
RRP: £18.99£15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456476Author Tedor ShaninFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development by Yuhua Wang
RRP: £30.00£22.82How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The... -
Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £22.00£16.99Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other... -
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
RRP: £8.99£6.20In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the... -
Sociology, Capitalism, Critique by Klaus Dorre
£28.17For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word "capitalism" sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism,... -
Gramsci's Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives by Kate Crehan
RRP: £22.99£19.60Acknowledged as one of the classics of twentieth-century Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks contains a rich and nuanced theorization of class that provides insights that extend far beyond economic inequality. In Gramsci's Common Sense Kate... -
Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology by Andre Gorz 9781781680261
£14.12In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work... -
Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield
RRP: £24.99£16.38*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2012* Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition. Magical Marxism demands something more of orthodox Marxism - something more interesting and liberating. It asks that we imagine a... -
Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain by J Moufawad-Paul 9781785354762
RRP: £17.99£15.39A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.About the AuthorJ. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and... -
A Collection of Ranter Writings: Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom in the English Revolution by Nigel Smith
RRP: £24.99£16.38The Ranters - like the Levellers and the Diggers - were a group of religious libertarians who flourished during the English Civil War (1642-1651), a period of social and religious turmoil which saw, in the words of the historian Christopher Hill, 'the... -
The Art Of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle by Havin Guneser
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637815Author Havin GuneserFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes: A Conceptual Framework by Balint Magyar
RRP: £41.95£38.00Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China,... -
The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy by Jason Read
RRP: £34.99£26.67Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction... -
Prague Spring: Warsaw Pact Invasion, 1968 by Phil Carradice 9781526757005
RRP: £14.99£10.95Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it... -
Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel by Mahdi Amel
RRP: £25.00£18.81Mahdi Amel (1936-87) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. For the first time in English, this collection makes available lengthy excerpts from six major works by Mahdi Amel. These include the two founding texts on... -
Really Existing Nationalisms by Erica Benner
RRP: £11.99£9.70Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two thinkers had a much better explanatory grasp of national phenomena than is... -
James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist by Liam McNulty
RRP: £25.00£21.79Is the voice of James Connolly, silenced by a British bullet in 1916, coming back? This book offers a measured consideration of Connolly, alive to his continuing political relevance. It seeks to explain Connolly's political development in dialogue... -
Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov by James D. White
RRP: £40.00£30.74In the first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. This sweeping and informative volume... -
On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Professor Louis Althusser
RRP: £19.99£16.90Louis Althusser's renowned short text 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has...