Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

The Soviet Way of Life (1948) is an objective description of the Soviet Russian political and economic systems.

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism.

The development of market socialism in China has contributed to a remarkable spatial economic transformation in particular areas of the Chinese countryside.

What is the future for progressive politics in advanced capitalism?

It would be differcult to think of any political party whose internal problems have been so publicly scrutinised as have those of the Labour Party in recent years.

Based on documents collected in six European countries, European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s is a transnational study of largely parallel developments in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain in the years 1933-1936.

A comprehensive, systematic analysis of the North Korean economy, exposing its hidden workings through quantitative data analysis and surveys.

Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Zizek believes, nihilism, or does it tend towards, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believe, true egalitarian freedom?

An insider's account of Romania's emergence from communism controlIn the 1970s American attorney Alfred H.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 1914-45.

In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament.

Why is the search for democratic renewal so elusive?

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform.

The life story of Will Crooks has a Dickensian resonance.

Maria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International.

This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold War and the history of internationalist diplomacy.

With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in the nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world.

George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture.

This major reassessment of the relevance of Marxism in the social sciences decisively rebuts claims that it has been consigned to the dustbin of history by the collapse of communism and apparent triumph of capitalism and liberal democracy.

Offers new insights into both the successes and the limitations of Latin America''s left in the twentieth century.

This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics.

Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept.

The Skin of the System objects to the idea that there is only one modernity-that of liberal capitalism.

Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period.

This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.

This book provides an innovative analysis and interpretation of the overall trajectory of the Western European radical left from 1989 to 2015.

Focusing on four individuals, Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way describes the lives and ideas of Ernest Winch, Bill Pritchard, Bob Russell, and Arthur Mould and examines their efforts to put their ideas into practice.

Rosa Luxemburg war eine der bedeutendsten Intellektuellen des "e;langen"e; 19.

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.

This book is a fascinating collection of carefully handpicked key texts and speeches from Chile's 1,000 Days of Revolution, previously unpublished in English.

Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy.

Waiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day.

'Downing Street is said to be 'furious' at this book - and it is easy to understand why.

What is the future for progressive politics in advanced capitalism?

What role does the protection of citizens abroad play in motivating states' policies?

Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community, solidarity, ecology and life itself?

Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War.

This text offers an authoritative historiography of German socialist theorist Karl Kautsky and his impact on debates about the Russian Revolution and the contemporary left.

A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism.

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries.

In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought.

Why does 1968 matter today?

A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left.