In Love and Struggle (Justice, Power and Politics)
by Stephen M. Ward
James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied Hegel, worked with Caribbean political theorist C. L. R. James, and moved to Detroit to work toward a new American revolution. As husband and wife, the couple was infl...
The Radical Left in Europe in the Age of Austerity
The complex trajectory of Europe after the 2008 global financial crisis, has led to the catastrophic failure of deep austerity measures that swept across the Union, and is reflected in the rise of some radical left parties such as SYRIZA as well as an unfortunate rise in far right and nationalist parties and movements. This collection brings together a group of European scholars and activists from various European countries to discuss the recent economic, political, and electoral changes in resp...
Barricades! Revolution. Paris. 1968 (Memory Collectors, #1)
by Myles a Stern
America is witnessing the rise of a new generation of socialist activists. More young people support socialism now than at any time since the labor movement of the 1920s. The Democratic Socialists of America, a big-tent leftist organisation, has well over 50,000 members nationwide. In the fall of 2018, one of the most influential congressmen in the Democratic Party lost a primary to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old socialist who had never held office before. Now, AOC is one of the most in...
"Futurism was the state of the Fascist regime" - this is the view one encounters in most books written on Futurist art and literature. Whilst there can be no doubt about Futurist involvement with the founding of the fascist movement, little is known about the internal relationship between Futurists and Fascists in the years 1918-22, nor about the reasons for the Futurists' departure from the Fascist movement in 1920, or about Futurist opposition to (and even armed struggle against) the Fascist...
The Most Dangerous Man in America
by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis
In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and 'High Priest of LSD' Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, culminating in one of the...
A Trumpet of Sedition (Socialist History of Britain S.)
by Ellen Meiksins Wood and Neal Wood
Ideas of the state, civil society, natural rights, consent and property are considered in their historical context, as confrontations with the changes in property relations and political power that marked the early years of capitalism, and distinguished the English tradition of political thought from others in Europe.
Collected Works of Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - Economic Works Volume 28 (Collected Works of Karl Marx & Frederick Engels, #28)
by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty and their execution a political murder. This book is the first to reveal the full national and international scope of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair, uncovering how and why the two men became the centre of a global cause celebre that shook public opinion and transformed Ameri...
New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924
by Thomas Mackaman
By 1914, millions of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America's mines, mills and factories. The next decade saw major economic and demographic changes and the indoctrination of immigrant populations with labor movement ideology from both the U.S. and Europe. From the bottom rungs of the industrial hierarchy, immigrants pushed forward the greatest wave of strikes in U.S. labor history-lasting from 1916 until 1922-while nurturing new forms...
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realisation of Marx's prediction that 'all that is solid melts into air.' With the automation of work, the virtualisation of money, the dissi...
Peasants and Communists (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
by Melissa K. Bokovoy
The author explores the dynamic relationship between the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the country's peasantry majority from 1941-1953. She challenges explanations for the party's decision to end efforts at collectivization, examining their uneasy coalition with a peasantry resistant to change.
1917: The Nonviolent Russian Revolution / 1917: The Grassroots Working-Class Revolution that Lenin Crushed
by Milan Rai