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  • The American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades, 1929-1940

    Edited by Tim Davenport and Paul Le Blanc

    Few figures in the history of the American Left can claim a more significant and yet contradictory legacy as Jay Lovestone.

    Lovestone and his...

  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Alastair Davidson
    This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.

  • C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Scott McLemee
    CLR James and Revolutionary Marxism collects some of the most important, but difficult to obtain, articles from the legendary Trinidadian-Marxist.

  • Class Struggle and the Color Line

    by Paul Heideman
    A thoughtful collection of original documents highlighting the deep, early roots of Black radicalism in the US from 1900-1930.

  • Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela

    by Dario Azzellini
    A sweeping, insightful history from below of the Bolivarian Revolution and its efforts to build socialism in the 21st century.

  • Eros and Revolution

    by Javier Sethness Castro
    In Eros and Revolution, Javier Castro presents a comprehensive intellectual and political biography of the world-renowned critical theorist Herbert Marcuse

  • The Future of Work

    by Adrián Sotelo Valencia
    Sotelo offers an insightful analysis of the paradigmatic transformation of labor relations under neoliberalism.

  • Islam in a Post-Secular Society

    by Dustin J. Byrd
    Byrd uses Critical Theory to reject the ‘clash-of-civilizations’ thesis, and compellingly argue for the compatibility of Islam and secularism.

  • Otto Bauer (1881-1938)

    by Ewa Czerwinska-Schupp
    A stirring, ground breaking, political biography of the most important leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers Party’s, Otto Bauer.

  • The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937

    by Reiner Tosstorff
    The first major scholarly account of one of the international communist movement’s most important organizations.

  • Reminiscences of Lenin

    by Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya
    A personal account of Lenin’s life and thought, written by the woman who knew him best.

  • Revolutionary Studies

    by Paul Le Blanc
    Explores relevance of Marxism to emancipatory politics through critical examination of core concepts and key twentieth-century revolutionary figures and movements.

  • Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities

    by Darko Suvin
    Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism

  • The Types of Economic Policies Under Capitalism

    by Kôzô Uno
    One of the most important works of the legendary Japanese Marxist, Kôzô Uno, finally available in English translation.

  • Extracting Profit

    by Lee Wengraf
    A piercing historical explanation for poverty and inequality in African societies today, and social impact of resource-driven growth.

  • Fuego subterráneo

    by Sharon Smith
    Accessible, radical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the history of workers' resistance, in Spanish for the first time.

  • Althusser and Theology

    Edited by Agon Hamza
    A major contribution to Althusser scholarship, as well as to our understanding of the Left’s relation to religion and theology.

  • China: Promise or Threat?

    by Horst J. Helle
    An insightful socio-cultural analysis of the differences in Chinese and Western relationships to the public and the private spheres.

  • NASCAR, Sturgis, and the New Economy of Spectacle

    by Daniel Krier and William J. Swart
    A brilliant and compelling application of the analytic tools of Critical Theory to NASCAR and Motor Cycle rallies.

  • Politics of Precarity

    Edited by Martin Bak Jørgensen and Carl-Ulrik Schierup
    A study of precarity as both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance in migrant communities across the globe

  • The Poverty of Work

    by David Van Arsdale
    This study takes readers inside the world of temping to discover a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly.

  • The Agrarian Seeds of Empire

    by Brad Bauerly
    An innovative discussion of the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US state building between 1840 and 1980.

  • The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver

    by Daniel Egan
    An illuminating examination of the role that the metaphors ‘war of position’ and ‘war of maneuver’ play in Gramsci’s theory.

  • Hip Hop's Hostile Gospel

    by Daniel White Hodge
    Hip Hop’s Hostile Gospel is a wide-ranging and highly enjoyable attempt to unearth the theology of Hip Hop