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In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the...

In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on Wall Street ... their target, 'Business, Big Business, Business as Usual!!!' It was ACT UP's first demonstration. In November 1999 a...

Author: Aaron BastaniPublisher: VersoPublication Date: June 16, 2020Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1786632632ISBN-13: 9781786632630

Throughout his long and turbulent career as a political leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfil his religious aspirations through politics and to reconcile politics...

Rabelais's tale the giant prince Gargantua is a vast and inescapable cluster of qualities and activities; his violence, greed and incontinence are incomparable. In the old giant's size, ubiquity,...

In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on gender relations. But what can be done to influence...

Glitch Feminism: A ManifestoAuthor: Legacy RussellPublisher: VersoPublication Date: Sep 29, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1786632667ISBN-13: 9781786632661

Faced with climate change, many counsel "going green," encouraging us to buy organic food or a "clean" car, for example. But can we rely on consumerism to provide a solution to the very problems it...

The ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists collectively known as Anonymous--by the writer the Huffington Post says "knows all of Anonymous' deepest, darkest...

In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Ranci?re explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and its allies use their...

When James Joyce called the Irish "the most belated race in Europe," he stated a complex truth about the history of his people and the nation they had been creating since the eighteenth century. The...

In History and Revolution, a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years. Ranging from an...

The classic history of the Paris Commune In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of beingexploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the...

Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakhan--the roster of immigrants from the Caribbean who have made a profound impact on the development of radical...

Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as...

With ruminations on drawing, colour and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between...

For most of its history, the American gay movement has been part of the democratic Left. Gay liberation's founders were Communists, and its activist core is still overwhelmingly progressive. But in...

A socialist journal edited by gay men in the 1970s After the leading organizations of radical sexual politics - the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Group - imploded or dissolved, the Gay...

Author: Erik Olin WrightPublisher: VersoPublication Date: April 13, 2021Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1788739558ISBN-13: 9781788739559

Author: Andreas MalmPublisher: VersoPublication Date: January 05, 2021Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1839760257ISBN-13: 9781839760259

The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Ch?vez places the country's controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs...

A Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on poverty, injustice, and the struggles of Mayan communities in Guatemala, offering "a fascinating and moving description of the culture of an entire people" (The...

Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson's long career as a critic. They chart a body of work...

If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author's upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia,...

With race and policing once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America?s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power One of America?s most historic political...

"An impressive analysis of Zionist ideology and a searing . . . indictment of Israel's treatment of the Arabs since 1948" through a survey of popular and scholarly images (London Review of Books) ...

Author: Benedict AndersonPublisher: VersoPublication Date: September 13, 2016Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1784786756ISBN-13: 9781784786755

Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life--the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others--he finds that they are all...

A provocative, beautiful and defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer with North African roots Is social integration all it's cracked up to be? Not...

In Hiding is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel Cort?s was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the Republic's land reform...