Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America.

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

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

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.

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

Fidel Castro is one of the most interesting and controversial personalities of our time he has become a myth and an icon.

The Triumph of Politics offers a comparative and historical interpretation of Venezuela's Chavez, Bolivia's Morales and Ecuador's Correa - South America's most prominent 21st century socialists'.

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

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