Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

Bernie Sanders zeigt, dass eine wahre gesellschaftliche Erneuerung nur von links geschehen kann.

Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion provides a timely reminder of persisting inequalities of class, race and gender as a consequence of the changes which have engulfed Europe in less than a decade.

The remarkable advance of "e;Corbynism"e; did not emerge from nowhere.

Volume II offers a world-encompassing overview of movements and parties that wanted to promote social justice by social reform – the conquering and transforming of state power.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist and Labour rising star Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic Rory Stewart No one has done more to re-inject sanity into our national policy Emily Maitlis'Everyone should read this book if they care about our country' Tom BaldwinGreat Britain?

Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez Fras has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regimean outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support.

The start of the twenty-first century has been marked by global demands for economic justice.

First published in 1935, Practical Socialism for Britain presents an assessment of the Labour government's policy options and aggressively advocates for socialism Britain's panacea.

This book offers a geneaological understanding of the condition of our time by reconstructing the complex story of the transition from the "e;cyclical time"e; of the classic era to the "e;linear and infuturant time"e; of the modern world.

McManus presents a comprehensive guide to the liberal socialist tradition, stretching from Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine through John Stuart Mill to Irving Howe, John Rawls, and Charles Mills.

Volume I offers a world-encompassing overview of state negating (utopian, early socialist, anarchist, syndicalist) movements and thinkers.

The clue to our future lies in our past and Toye has winkled it out with elegant and devastating precision.

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

How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change?

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

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

Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States' longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized.

The present collection contains papers of the first national workshop organised by the All India Progressive Forum (AIPF) on '21st Century Socialism' in Hyderabad.

The essential political and theoretical work of one of Latin Americas most important contemporary theorists.

An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy-and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond AronLiberty and Equality is the first English translation of the last lecture delivered at the College de France by Raymond Aron, one of the most influential political and social thinkers of the twentieth century.

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

This book offers the very first collaborative analysis of various conditions and aspects of developmental citizenship in China and its practical and ideological implications for Chinese post-socialism.

The Republican People's Party (RPP), also know as the CHP (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), stands as the main opposition party - one of two major political currents, second only to the Erdooan's AK Party.

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

To the surprise of many, the Dalai Lama recently declared that, 'I am a socialist'.

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand.

Originally published in 1985, Retrieving Democracy offers a thorough and systematic answer to the familiar objection that genuine democracy is utopian.

In recent years, the effects of economic openness and technological change have fuelled dissatisfaction with established political systems and led to new forms of political populism that exploit the economic and political resentment created by globalization.

Were movies in the East Bloc propaganda or carefully veiled dissent?

Max Weber is one of the founding fathers of sociology.

The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization.

This promising addition to the growing literature on the history of late socialism charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s.

This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945.

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.

The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian constitution is one of Latin America's most important untold stories.

This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman's influence on British socialism.

The first full length analysis of the rise of left-wing hobbyists, performative radicals and the identity Left.

First published in 1992.

The German council movements arose through mass strikes and soldier mutinies towards the end of the First World War.

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.

Presenting a detailed explanation of party politics in the European Union, this new book uses the Party of European Socialists (PES) as a key case study, and tests the relevance of existing theoretical work on the meaning, significance, and prospects for realising other 'Europarties'.

First published in 1975, this book explores the concept of socialism.

In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction.

The collapse of the Soviet Empire led many to think communism and perhaps socialism were no longer relevant to the modern world.

The Twilight of World Trotskyism analyzes the reasons behind the historic failure of the Trotskyist movement around the world.

Can Marxism emerge from the long shadow cast by Stalinism, and challenge capitalism?

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.

This is the second book in a unique two-volume study tracing the evolution of the Labour Party's foreign policy throughout the 20th century to the present date.