Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

A new collection of Shaw's major political writings presents an opportunity to reflect on his influential role as a public intellectual.

A new collection of Shaw's major political writings presents an opportunity to reflect on his influential role as a public intellectual.

A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day.

John Griffith London (1876 - 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist.

This is a political biography of one of the 20th century's most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973.

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.

George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change.

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

If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement of science, what would you do?

"e;How I Became a Socialist"e; is a 1903 essay by Jack London.

What can a body do under capitalism?

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

When Hugo Chavez, then President of Venezuela, died in 2013, millions across the globe mourned.

Originally published in 1940, this is an exhaustive biography of the famous socialist philosopher and revolutionary.

I wrote this book for my niece, and I realized if I could help her understand, then I could reach out to other teens and youths of America to understand the dangers of socialism and how it can impact your life as an American.

*Winner of the New York Times Book Covers of the Year, 2017* 'Workers of the world, Unite!

It's easy to blame the difficulties theatre now faces on the longest shutdown of stages since the mid-seventeenth century.

'I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot' - John Maclean, Speech from the Dock, 1918.

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

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976.

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day.

Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey.

The United Kingdom faces a historic turning point in 2014.

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On 1 July 2018, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was elected as the next President of Mexico.

"e;Progress and Poverty is not so much a book as an event.

Is there an alternative to the neoliberal globalization that is ravaging our planet?

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.

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The question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times.

In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-twenty-first-century capitalism.

Economics for the Many, edited and with an introduction by Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, features contributions from the participants in his New Economics conferences, including Barry Gardiner, Ann Pettifor, Prem Sikka, and Guy Standing.

In Praise of Disobedience draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest prose - the year he came into maturity as an artist.

In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory.

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.

A groundbreaking contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the connections between socialism and feminism.

Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics.

The age of party democracy has passed, argues Peter Mair in Ruling the Void.

William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is less well known.

This outstanding and original volume offers a critical examination of a number of developments which in recent years have undermined the idea of socialism and eroded its electoral appeal.

Why is our society so unequal?

A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century.

The political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have never been limited to winning the White House.

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?

Hailed as a human-rights champion and political outsider, what sort of politician is Keir Starmer really, and what mark is he making on the new politics of Labour?

When Eurocommunism and Socialism was first published in English in 1978, the immediate political future of much of Western Europe was dominated by the prospect of the entry of mass Communist Parties into government.

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.