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The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour M. Hersh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.95In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating... -
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60All That Is Solid Melts into Air is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes... -
The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession by Anton Jäger 9781804292488
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.38After thirty years of retreat, the last decade has witnessed a resurgent left in the United States and Western Europe. This upsurge of anti-establishment candidates was not only left-wing but also... -
The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization by Mohamed Amer Meziane 9781804291771
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand... -
War and Money: The Imperialism of the Dollar by Maurizio Lazzarato 9781804296561
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Maurizio Lazzarato's War & Money explores the relationship between capitalist expansion, international economic conflict, and imperialist war. He examines why contemporary left-wing theorists such as... -
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization by Richard Seymour 9781804294260
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair... -
Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys 9781804296820
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Boris Groys's new book is an intellectual biography of the fascinating and mysterious figure of Alexandre Kojève, discussing his involvement with Hegel's dialectics, his idea of communism and his... -
Berlin Childhood ca. 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9781836740148
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Completed in exile in Paris, as the second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. The book is both a sensory memoir of childhood... -
Revolutionary Subjects: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman by Benjamin Kohlmann 9781804297278
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24What do novels reveal about how radical selves are made?Kohlmann traces two centuries of literature shaped by emancipatory and internationalist commitments, charting the evolution of "red" world... -
The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by Jasper Bernes 9781788737548
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R... -
The Way of the World: Bildungsroman in European Culture by Franco Moretti
Booksplease Price: £22.26Willhelm Meister, Elizabeth Bennet, Julian Sorel, Rastignac, Jane Eyre, Bazaroz, Dorothea Brooke...the Golden Age of the European novel discovers a new collective protagonist: youth. It is... -
Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson 9780860915379
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.90In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Frederic Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a... -
Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics by Kevin Ochieng Okoth 9781839767371
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Excavating the history of Marxism and Black revolutionary politics Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anticolonial struggles in Africa. Contemporary... -
Political Crumbs by Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780860915126
Booksplease Price: £18.66Essays cover Eurocentrism, democracy in modern Germany, economic policies, and socialism.Book InformationISBN 9780860915126Author Hans Magnus EnzensbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count -
Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography Ariella Aisha Azoulay 9781804292594
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls... -
Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work Craig Gent 9781839768552
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by... -
The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa by Thomas Deltombe 9781788733762
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Legend has it that the end of France's empire in sub-Saharan Africa was a peaceful affair. This book tells a very different story, exposing the shocking violence of a secret war. Its theater was... -
Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia by Malise Ruthven 9781839760112
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15In recent years, the de facto head of the House of Saud, Mohammed bin Salman, has promoted the oil-rich kingdom as an open, liberalizing nation that has invested in culture, tourism, and social... -
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara 9781786636942
Booksplease Price: £17.19The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a... -
The Literary Workshop: The Chaotic Space Where Books Are Made by Monique Wittig 9781804294451
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Monique Wittig was a revolutionary force in second-wave feminism and one of the most brilliant writers of her generation.Through her groundbreaking writing, she laid the groundwork for generations of... -
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It by Cory Doctorow 9781836743750
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88*** Longlist for the FT and Schroder Business Book of the Year 2025 ***** Named word of the year in US, UK and Australia ***'Enshittification' will be the most talked about tech book of the year.*... -
Taking Back Control?: States and State Systems After Globalism by Wolfgang Streeck 9781839767302
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal revolution gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the... -
Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell 9781839762819
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42*** Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism ***Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our... -
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question by Christopher Hitchens 9781836743590
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32How the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very... -
Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy by Erik Olin Wright
Booksplease Price: £14.86What 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... -
The Security Principle: From Serenity to Regulation by Frederic Gros
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24The genealogy of the idea of security from ancient Greece to the war on terrorism In The Security Principle, French philosopher Fr d ric Gros takes a historical approach to the concept of "security,"... -
Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua by Jing Wang
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.90Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film, and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an... -
Who's Afraid of Margaret Thatcher?: In Praise of Socialism Ken Livingstone 9780860918028
Booksplease Price: £15.23Ken Livingstone is a product of the political changes that have already taken place in the Labour Party. As Leader of the Greater London Council he has provided a voice and a vision for tens of... -
The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris Justinien Tribillon 9781804294048
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's paintings to the cinematic violence of La Haine,... -
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State Danny Dorling 9781804295847
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further... -
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Gotz Aly 9781784786342
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.60How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive. By engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channelling the... -
Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property by Adam Raz 9781804295168
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.32During the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian homes, shops, businesses, and farms. This bitter truth was then suppressed or forgotten over the coming years.Tens of... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated works of modern social... -
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Booksplease Price: £18.18The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed by... -
Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics by Nancy Fraser
Booksplease Price: £26.85Historically, leftwing accounts of injustice focused primarily on economic harms, such as poverty, exploitation, and inequality. Recently, however, with the collapse of Communism and the rise of... -
Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group by Brixton Black Women's Group 9781804291979
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.81"We came to Britain in search of better opportunities or to get some of the wealth which had been misappropriated from the Caribbean, but what in reality did we find?"Speak Out brings together the... -
On Screens by Joanna Walsh 9781839765391
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32As platforms constantly expect us to update and post, our status as 'artists' is often overlooked. The internet has become a world of appearances where aesthetics trumps ethics - it is more important... -
From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger 9781804299890
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and... -
Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster by Paul Guillibert 9781804296387
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32In the age of climate change, is the communist hypothesis still relevant? Only a renewed communism, a communism for life - or a "biocommunism" - will enable us to move beyond the ecological crisis of... -
How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy by Cédric Durand 9781804294390
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn't deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever. In...