Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures from the Eastern and Western blocs, built a modern society on the ashes of war, created its own form of socialism, and led the formation of the Nonaligned Movement.

With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offerincluding socialism, anarchism, and deep ecology.

An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.

The alt-right movement in the United States has actively been endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its ends-and with varying degrees of success.

Were the occupations of 2010-11 - from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street - a success or failure?

The British Labour Party is in crisis.

Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world.

Originally published in 1974, The Social Analysis of Class Structure is an edited collection addressing class formation and class relations in industrial society.

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy.

Theorists have often returned to the work of Marx, to interpret and better understand global developments and current political and economic crisis.

Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy.

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

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of W.

The intensely political cultural production that erupted during Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 encompassed music, art, literature, film and theatre.

Originally published in 1984, Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Claus Offe's essays to appear in a single volume in English.

First published in 1983, this important and stimulating book is a thoughtful contribution to the debate about the first steps that needed to be taken to build a socialist society in the 1980s.

Miroslav Hroch's Social Preconditions of National Revival has profoundly influenced the study of nationalism since it first appeared in English translation, particularly because of its famous three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements in Eastern Europe.

William Morris (1834-96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice.

Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how that knowledge is put towards making a progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable future of human flourishing.

The emergence of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America's most enduring political traditions - populism.

For historians of the international labour movement, the decades before 1914 were the golden age of Marxist thought.

From an Eastern nation on the global periphery to a European neoliberal democracy enmeshed in transnational networks, Poland has experienced a dramatic transformation in the last century.

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.

Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world.

Cuba: The Doctrine of the Lie is a thoroughly researched and profoundly revealing work on two themes of vital importance to the world today: the true nature of totalitarianism and how religion, philosophy, culture, tradition, and individual freedom are the most effective antibodies for countering this deadly ontological virus.

'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 .

This study examines fully the role that the historic European left has played in developing and espousing anti-Semitic views.

Using network analysis and quantitative and qualitative data, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters.

This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West's defining conflict in the modern age.

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.

Over a decade ago, Jorge Castaneda wrote the classic Utopia Unarmed, which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American left's fate at the end of the Cold War.

This second volume of the highly successful, A History of Marxian Economics, covers the period from 1929 to the present.

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from the shame of defeat in 1940 to a place at the centre of the new Europe.

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and history.

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

First published in 1975.

Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore.

Die Sozialdemokratie meldet sich zuruckSie war die Hoffnungstragerin der Sozialdemokratie und bescherte Roland Koch und seiner Hessen-CDU 2008 mit ihrem progressiven Programm eine schwere Wahlniederlage.

Anarchism is a significant but relatively neglected of political thought.

Examines the policies and performance of left-wing governments that have risen to power in Latin America during the last decade.

First published in English in 1921, this work was originally written by renowned Marxist historian Max Beer to commemorate the centenary of Marx's birth.

The notion of social policy as a productive investment and a prerequisite for economic growth became a core feature in the ideology of Swedish social democracy, and a central component of the universalism of the Swedish welfare state.

The emergence of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America's most enduring political traditions - populism.

Radicals in America offers the first complete and continuous history of left-wing social movements in the United States from the Second World War to the present.

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other.

This authoritative biography chronicles the pioneering work of a nineteenth-century Black abolitionist and civil rights activist.

What future is there for the left, faced with the challenges of the twenty-first century?

This book looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left.

This book explores the global impact of the Russian Revolution, arguably the most influential revolution of the modern age.