Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

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

The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited.

The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people.

This essay collection presents a compelling and insightful analysis of the Palestinian freedom movement from a socialist perspective.

Provides the first detailed examination of rank-and-file communist party activism as an element of governance in the Soviet system.

The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earths population is threatened by catastrophic climate change.

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope.

** Guardian Politics Book of the Day**For over a hundred years, the British Labour Party has been a bastion for working class organisation and struggle.

In this book Paul Hirst makes a major contribution to democratic thinking, advocating "e;associative democracy"e;; the belief that human welfare and liberty are best served when as many of the affairs of society as possible are managed by voluntary and democratically self-governing associations.

"e;A clever, even witty examination of the manipulation of language in these days of neoliberal or late stage capitalism"e; (Counterpunch).

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has become a focus of discussion across the world.