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  • The Communist Hypothesis

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Translated by David Macey, Steve Corcoran ...
    “We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy—the form of state suited to capitalism—and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.”—Alain BadiouAlain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis,” first stated in 2008, cut through the cant and compromises ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Polemics

    by Alain Badiou, Cecile Winter ...
    Translated by Steve Corcoran, Bruno Bosteels, Ray Brassier ...
    Following on from Alain Badiou’s acclaimed works Ethics and Metapolitics, Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution.With the critical insight and polemical bravura for which he is renowned, Badiou ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What Times Are We Living In?

    A Conversation with Eric Hazan

    by Jacques Rancière ...
    Translated by Steve Corcoran ...
    In this short book, Jacques Rancière takes stock of the state of contemporary politics and examines current developments in the light of his writings. Rancière takes issue with what he sees as the consolidation in recent years of an increasingly oligarchic class of professional politicians within the system of representative democracy, while simultaneously objecting to leftist animosity towards ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The Edges of Fiction

    by Jacques Rancière ...
    Translated by Steve Corcoran ...
    What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ignorance into ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Hatred of Democracy

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    Translated by Steve Corcoran ...
    Series Book 8 - Radical Thinkers
    In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Rancière explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their military might in the misguided attempt to export a desiccated version democracy, and reactionary strands in mainstream political opinion abandon civil liberties, Rancière argues that true democracy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Proletariat and the Revolution (Illustrated Edition)

    by Leon Trotsky ...
    Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power, expelled from ... Read more

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  • The Naked Communist

    Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

    by W. Cleon Skousen, Paul B. Skousen, Tim McConnehey ...
    Series Book 2 - Freedom in America
    A timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller.Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom exploded in popularity, selling almost two million copies to date and finding its way into the libraries of the CIA, the FBI, the White House, and homes all across the United States. From the tragic falls of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Russian Revolution

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's 'revolution from above', to the great purges of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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  • Syriza

    Inside the Labyrinth

    by Kevin Ovenden ...
    Series series Left Book Club
    * Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015*Greece's recent political turmoil captured the imagination of the left across Europe. Elected in January 2015 under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras, the radical Syriza party sought to challenge the European economic status-quo and secure a better future for the Greek people. The fierce confrontation with Greece's creditors which ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hero of Budapest

    The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg

    by Bengt Jangfeldt ...
    Translated by Harry D. Watson ...
    The story of Raoul Wallenberg - the Swedish businessman who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest's Jews from the Holocaust and subsequently disappeared into the Soviet prison system - is one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II. Yet the complete story of his life and fate can only be told now - and for the first time in this book - following access to the Russian and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • A World to Win

    Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony

    Edited by William K. Carroll, Kanchan Sarker ...
    In this time of economic, ecological and social crises, a diverse array of collective movements carry the possibilities of deep democratization and alternative futures. A World to Win brings these movements alive as agents of history-in-the-making. It situates Quebec student strikers, Indigenous resistance and resurgence, Occupy, workers, migrant, feminist and queer movements and many others in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Populist Authoritarianism

    Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

    by Wenfang Tang ...
    Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to explain the seemingly contradictory trends of the increasing number of protests on the one hand, and the results of public opinion surveys that consistently show strong government support on the other hand. The book points to ... Read more

    $36.89 USD