Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

Isaac Deutscher is widely recognized as one of the foremost political biographers of the twentieth century, and his full-scale studies of Trotsky and Stalin, translated into many world languages, have played a major role in elucidating the character and...

Transnational Communism across the Americas offers an innovative approach to the study of Latin American communism. It convincingly illustrates that communist parties were both deeply rooted in their own local realities and maintained significant...

*Winner of the New York Times Book Covers of the Year, 2017* 'Workers of the world, Unite!' The Communist Manifesto is arguably the world's most influential political manuscript. Surviving through countless decades of revolution and...

'A book of rare beauty' - Bill Schwarz, Professor at Queen Mary University of London Across the Anglophone Caribbean, the great expectations of independence were never met. From Black Power and Jamaican Democratic Socialism to the Grenada Revolution,...

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"The Making of British Socialism" provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope...

Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva demonstrates how contemporary discussions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490569000Author M ShirokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

This book examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical Left circles in 1960s England. Based on a rich collection of oral history interviews, the book follows in depth the stories of approximately twenty...

It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xenophobia. Among his first acts on taking office was to...

Inchon, a dramatic Cold War event: in the first two volumes in the author's series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean ground forces, armour and artillery cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea, inflicting successive ignominious defeats on the...

This collection explores key themes in the contemporary critique of political economy, in honour of the work and practice of Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis - two of the most significant contemporary theorists of capitalism and anti-capitalism,...

This text seeks to show that anarchy, as the absence of government, is neither chaos nor some Utopian dream, but a system which has characterized much of the human past.ReviewsIn this lively and entertaining book Harold Barclay argues the case for...

The veritable tsunami of anxieties that are affecting individual lives, the increasingly dysfunctional nature of society and the potential catastrophes of global conflict and of climate change, have a common cause. The inability of capitalism or the...

“How can we get free? How can we free ourselves, our communities, our environments, our society? And what will this freedom look like? While the present moment holds incredible possibilities to organize for our collective liberation, there are powerful...

Leon Trotsky has become one of the twentieth century's most enduring political legends. Joining the Bolsheviks on the eve of the 1917 revolution he played a vital role as Lenin's right-hand man in the insurrection and went on to lead the Red Army to...

Longlisted for South Africa's 2022 Sunday Times Non-fiction Award Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Communist Party of South Africa. Renowned historian Tom Lodge has written an immensely readable and compelling sweep of history,...

In this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution. Written primarily for members of the newly created Communist International, Trotsky focuses on the specific role played by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628450347Author F EngelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Marxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action. The chapters collected here, by leading figures in both fields, discuss the potential for a Marxist theory of...

Marx and Engel's landmark treatise - in a graphic deluxe edition. One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, The Communist Manifesto is a revolutionary summons to the working class-an incisive account of a new theory of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604881455Author Jack BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921689089Author George WoodcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, leftist writers Olivier Besancenot and Michael Loewy offer a deeply informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had...

The publication of the first three volumes of Open Marxism in the 1990s has had a transformative impact on how we think about Marxism in the twenty-first century. 'Open Marxism' aims to think of Marxism as a theory of struggle, not as an objective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950691517Author Michael HarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320178Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045131Author Bini AdamczakFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914143700Author Mark L. ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications

In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together. In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where...

When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. 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 Greek Civil...

NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining popularity of hosting of the Games. The Olympics were once buoyed by...

This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund in migration investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and...

East Central Europe Between The Two World Wars is a sophisticated political history of East Central Europe in the interwar years. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is an original contribution to the literature on the political cultures of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489775Author Frederick EngelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books Ltd

In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Beyond Capital (winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The...

'Powerful and clarifying ... The book's combination of careful argument and cogent illustration will make this a landmark volume in Gramscian studies.' John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Hegemony: The New Shape of Global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639430Author Max ShachtmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Phoenix PressPublisher Phoenix Press

The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century?Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than...

Long considered dead by mainstream critics, the basic ideas of Marx are brought to life in this overview of his thought. The Meaning of Marxism 2nd Edition argues that rather than being irrelevant, Marx's ideas about globalisation, oppression and social...