Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s.

Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity and solidarity.

Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians.

August Bebel (1840-1913) was one of the towering figures of late nineteenth century European socialism and the leading figure of the German labour movement from the 1860s until his death in 1913.

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.

The Republican People's Party (RPP), also know as the CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), stands as the main opposition party - one of two major political currents, second only to the Erdooan's AK Party.

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'.

As New Labour's first period of government picks up steam, we find Bernard Donoughue working as a minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food.

Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity and solidarity.

The remarkable run of self-proclaimed "e;democratic socialist"e; Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted-for the first time in decades and to the shock of many-a national conversation about socialism.

We are seeing the rise of a populist moment around the world on both the left and the right.

The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead.

The original publication of the May Day Manifesto in 1967 collected together the most influential radical voices of the era.

Kathi Weeks suggests that one of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop theories of the subject that are adequate to feminist politics.

Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?

Senator Bernie Sanders won 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary, giving a consensus unbeatable party favorite, Hillary Clinton, a shockingly close challenge.

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead.

Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

'A rich and readable account of left-wing activism in the West and opposition to Soviet-style communism in the East' Katja Hoyer, The Spectator'A dream, perhaps, but one that still sounds worth fighting for, even beautiful' Stuart Jeffries, The Observer'An ambitious and masterly account of utopian protest in Europe .

In today's globalised world, and after the collapse of Stalinism, what remains of Marx's 'the working class as the gravediggers of capitalism'?

A detailed look into the economic and political conditions of our present moment from a Marxist perspective.

A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.

The everyday of politics is the politics of the everyday.

The story of Greece's resistance to European domination past and present.

A historical study for the purpose of understanding today's world and finding a path to a better world tomorrow.

With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural heritage.

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism.

Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn saw off an attempted coup against his leadership under the banner of the "e;soft left"e; one year on.

Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-si,cle elections.

Ernest Mandel's book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other.

What would a viable free and democratic society look like?

Hugo Ch,vez, military officer turned left-wing revolutionary, was one of the most important Latin American leaders of the twenty-first century.

Since 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical left party in Spain that is reframing the nature of modern politics.

'A lucidly written and well-researched account .

The political tradition loosely termed 'the left' has been brought to crisis point as the twentieth century draws to a close.

On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, 'I Have a Dream', the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accra, Ghana: W.

'This expert guide to the political economy of Marx's Capital has always been the very best available' - David HarveyThis brilliantly concise book is the classic companion to Karl Marx's most well-known work, Capital.

Social democracy is clearly at a dead end, but is it actually dead?

In Being Red, Ken Livingstone serves up an account of the Labour Party and its future, at a pivotal moment in its history.

Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge?

*Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2017* Karl Polanyi's contribution to political economy and social science is immeasurable.

Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria.

Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21.

* Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015*Greece's recent political turmoil captured the imagination of the left across Europe.

'Powerful and clarifying .

Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother?

Venezuela has become a huge source of hope and inspiration for the Left throughout the world.

This new edition of the classic biography of Tony Benn captures the essence of Benn's formidable impact on the British Labour Party and British politics.

The United Kingdom faces a historic turning point in 2014.

Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change.