Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

Women's emancipation through productive labour was a key tenet of socialist politics in post-World War II Yugoslavia.

The book presents an analysis of the concept of rights and provides an illuminating expression of socialist ideals.

Although there is an established historiography on women's roles during the Spanish Civil War (1936-9), little has been written on Nationalist women in the Republican-held zones.

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states.

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault.

Today's antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim its hatred or fear of Jews.

Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of the 19th century.

Ecosocialism: Climate Change, Socialism and Democracy maps out a political path for green transition which is both desirable and practicable - without avoiding its difficulties - giving the fight for climate justice real mobilising power.

In the three decades before the First World War, the relationship between socialism and feminism was both curious and convoluted.

The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' - it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production.

The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo.

This book explores the discourses, attitudes and behaviours of professional politicians and ordinary citizens alike characterized by hostility towards the political sphere, political parties and, above all, professional politicians.

This book is a thematic history of the communist movement in Kerala, the first major region (in terms of population) in the world to democratically elect a communist government.

This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chavez (19992013) revamped Venezuela's political economy examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez's death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolas Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies.

As we experience yet another deep economic recession, people throughout the world are feeling the symptoms of capitalist crisis, from unemployment to bankruptcy to deficits to cutbacks and so on.

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

Against the grain is the first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century.

Lewis Minkin has immense experience of the Labour Party and has acted as adviser to two major internal reviews of the internal party organisation.

This first volume will showcase the richness and diversity of the Owenite movement, which spanned decades (from Owen's first published books in 1813-16 to the late 1840s), political allegiances, genders and continents.

Despite the fact that socialist parties have proved to be a major political force across the world, this has not been the case in Asian countries.

Moving past the conflation of state socialism with all socialist projects, this book opens up avenues for addressing socialist projects rooted in decolonial and antiracist politics.

This book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today, with particular attention to the East/West distinction.

Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity fairly, achieve environmental sustainability, and use scarce productive resources efficiently.

The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union (1974) examines the institutionalisation of sociology in the Soviet Union.

The third volume includes a range of pamphlets, lectures and other documents which help illustrate the intellectual and political activities and environment which shaped the British mainstream left of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Health Care in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1976) examines the systems of health care in the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc.

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

Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged examines the twenty-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China.

This book, first published in 1935, examines the lives of seven revolutionary women: Charlotte Corday, Theroigne de Mericourt, Flora Tristan, Louise Michel, Vera Figner, Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg.

Cypriot pollitics are among the most contentious in Europe, and frequently attract the attention of the international community.

A compelling look at the origins of British socialismThe Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope promoting social justice, personal transformation, and radical democracy.

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Xiang explains the nature and depth of the legitimacy crisis facing the government of China, and why it is so frequently misunderstood in the West.

For several decades conservatives set the political agenda in the United States, allowing them to focus the conversation on topics such as tax cuts, national security, and social issues.

A panoramic account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath animated by the lives, ideas and experiences of workers, peasants, intellectuals, artists, and revolutionaries of diverse persuasions October Song vividly narrates the triumphs of those who struggled for a new society and created a revolutionary workers state.

Beyond Liberalism and Communism: Socialist Theory and the Chinese Case presents a new conceptual framework of socialism and applies it to the study of socialist development in China, shedding new light on modern China and signposting novel directions in socialist thought.

Im Zentrum des Buches stehen die politischen Konversionen des jüdischen Juristen und hochrangigen Mitarbeiter des SED-Parteiapparats Leo Zuckermann (1908–1985), der sich in einer kurzen Zeitspanne zwischen Zweitem Weltkrieg und Beginn des Ost-West-Konflikts für die Rechte der Juden als Kollektiv einsetzte.

In summer 2024, France stood on the brink of a far-right takeover.

This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art history.

In this age of overlapping and mutually reinforcing deep global crises (financial convulsions, global warming, mass migrations, militarism, inequality, selfish nation-states, etc.

Winner of the International Labor History Association (ILHA) 2023 Book of the Year Award for labor historyFor more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic.

The European question has divided the Labour Party and the progressive left for over 50 years.

Social democracy emerged in the late nineteenth century and has become a leading political ideology in Europe.

After 13 years in power, Labour suddenly returned to being the party of opposition in 2010.

Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos.

First published in English in 1929, this is a reissue of Otto Ruhle's comprehensive biography of Karl Marx.

Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed.

America is the one of the wealthiest nations on earth.

Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders.

Does socialism have a future in the world of the twenty-first century?