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As we announce our Spring 2016 books, we’re excited that so many of them address the most pressing issues today – in the UK, in Europe, and across the globe. Our partnership with the Left Book Club develops in leaps and bounds with three new titles: Being Red, by Ken Livingstone, is an apposite ref lection on the challenges facing the Labour Party in the aftermath of the 2015 general election. Livingstone has form on this topic: his book will be a must-read. Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker’s The Rent Trap paints a grim picture of the private rental sector in the UK – and the escalating fight back for secure, affordable accommodation for all. And in Cut Out, Jeremy Seabrook documents the devastating effects of the demolition of the welfare state by an ideologically-driven Tory government. Owen Hatherley’s The Chaplin Machine recounts the hidden (and unexpectedly comedic) history of Soviet film, art and architecture. And finally, for the hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising we publish three very different books on Irish radicalism: Kieran Allen’s 1916, Geoffrey Bell’s Hesitant Comrades and a new edition of the bestselling biography of the heroic Bobby Sands. Start reading! Anne Beech Publisher
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The Chaplin Machine
Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde Owen Hatherley In The Chaplin Machine, Owen Hatherley unearths the hidden history of Soviet film, art and architecture. Turning upside down the common view that the Communist avant-garde was austere and humourless, he reveals an unexpected comedic streak which found its inspiration in the slapstick of the American performers Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Hatherley examines through this Americanised prism a comedy of technology, which began on Henry Ford’s production lines and transcended political and cultural boundaries to become an international phenomenon. What did it mean for socialists to combine the ideas of Chaplin and Ford? Did their experiments suggest a new future conception of work and leisure? And to what degree was this emphasis on comedy a precursor to the weirdly festive despotism of Stalin? The Chaplin Machine is a bold, new interpretation of twentieth-century art history. OWEN HATHERLEY is a writer based in Woolwich and Warsaw,
contributing regularly to Architects Journal, Icon, the Guardian and New Humanist. He is the author of several books, most recently A New Kind of Bleak (Verso, 2012), Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012) and Landscapes of Communism (Allen Lane, 2015).
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‘A brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer’ WILL SELF
‘One of the most distinctive writers in England - acuity, contrariness, observational rigour, frankness and beautifully wrought prose’ JONATHAN MEADES
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1916 Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition Kieran Allen Published amidst the 100th anniversary commemorations of the Easter Rising, this alternative history of Ireland in 1916 will provide a lesser-known narrative and analysis of events that surrounded Ireland’s great political upheaval. Kieran Allen will clear away established assumptions by focussing on the uprising’s revolutionary tradition; one that was betrayed, but never eradicated, and that is needed now more than ever in a country that has been laid low by austerity and debt repayments. The book focuses on the clash between the socialists’ aspirations and the republican current, and how both were ultimately crushed in the counterrevolution that accompanied the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921. By re-establishing the political role of socialist republican figures such as James Connolly, 1916: Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition explores the militancy and radicalism that continues to haunt the Irish elite one hundred years later. KIERAN ALLEN is a sociology lecturer at University College Dublin. His
books include Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism (Pluto, 2011) and Max Weber: A Critical Introduction (Pluto, 2004) as well as a number of works on Irish society and politics.
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Hesitant Comrades The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement Geoffrey Bell Pb 978-0-7453-3660-2 £16.99
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Bobby Sands Nothing But an Unfinished Song Denis O'Hearn Pb 978-0-7453-3633-6 £14.99
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Launched by a collective of activists, writers and trade unionists, the Left Book Club believes, as did the organisers of the first Club in the 1930s, that books, and the discussion of ideas, are vital for the development of progressive politics in Britain.
Left Five Book years Club into austerity: how we can avoid a lost decade
Being Red
A Politics For The Future Ken Livingstone How should the left govern? In Being Red, Ken Livingstone provides a definitive account of both his years at the head of the Greater London Council and his two terms as London Mayor, offering a clear-sighted study of the democratic left’s possibilities and limitations, including reflections on the current state of the Labour Party and a look into its future. At a time when many are now looking to revive Labour’s progressive potential, Livingstone has form. His account takes us from the self-proclaimed ‘radical socialism’ of the GLC, to his controversial independent candidacy that saw him branded as ‘dangerous’ and ‘antibusiness’ by the Blairites, to the political battles against privatisation and pollution that characterised his time as Mayor. At each point, he suggests possible lessons for those who would seek to follow, or improve, on his achievements today. KEN LIVINGSTONE is an English politician who has twice held the leading political role in London regional government. He served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the Council was abolished in 1986, and then as the first elected Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the MP for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. His autobiography, You Can’t Say That, was published by Faber & Faber in 2011.
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The Rent Trap How We Fell Into It and How We Get Out of It Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker
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Deregulation, revenge evictions, parliamentary corruption and dayto-day instability: these are the realities for the eleven million people currently renting privately in the UK. At the same time, house prices are skyrocketing and the generational promise of home ownership is now an impossible dream for many. This is the rent-trap, an inescapable consequence of market-induced inequality. Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker offer the first critical account of what is really going on in the private rented sector and expose the powers which are conspiring to oppose regulation. A quarter of British MPs are landlords, rent strike is almost impossible and snap evictions are growing, but in the light of these hurdles The Rent Trap will show how people are starting to fight back. Drawing on inspiration from movements in the UK, Europe and further afield, The Rent Trap will cohere current experiences of those fighting the financial burdens, health risks and vicious behaviour of landlords in an attempt to put an end to the dominant narratives that normalise rent extraction and undermine our fundamental rights. SAMIR JERAJ is a journalist who specialises in housing and worked as a
city councillor. His work has appeared in the Guardian, New Statesman and the New Internationalist. He has carried out investigations on the bedroom tax, crisis financial support and drone warfare. ROSIE WALKER is a writer and researcher interested in housing and
poverty. She has worked as a researcher for LSE, University of Bristol and University of Brighton, and as a journalist for the Independent and Third Sector. While writing an MSc dissertation on private renting, she was evicted by her landlord for asking for a new chest of drawers.
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Cut Out
Living Without Welfare Jeremy Seabrook Britain’s welfare state, one of the greatest achievements of our post-war reconstruction, was regarded as the cornerstone of modern society. Today, that cornerstone is being wilfully dismantled by a succession of governments, with horrifying consequences. The establishment paints pictures of so-called ‘benefit scroungers’; the disabled, the sickly and the old. In Cut Out: Living Without Welfare, Jeremy Seabrook speaks to people whose support from the state – for whatever reason – is now being withdrawn, rendering their lives unsustainable. In turns disturbing, eye-opening and ultimately humanistic, these accounts reveal the reality behind the headlines, and the true nature of British politics today. JEREMY SEABROOK is a journalist and writer. He has written for the New
Statesman, Guardian, Times and Independent. He writes plays for stage and TV and is the author of numerous books including Pauperland: Poverty and the Poor in Britain (Hurst, 2013) and The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh (Hurst, 2015).
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Praise for previous books: ‘Seabrook has established himself as Britain’s finest anatomist of class, deindustrialisation, migration and the spiritual consequences of neoliberalism’ SUKHDEV SANDHU, GUARDIAN
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Revolutionary Lives
Paul Robeson The Artist as Revolutionary Gerald Horne A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life welllived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon both the NFL and Hollywood and become one of the most important political activists of his generation - battling both Jim Crow and Joseph McCarthy. Gerald Horne's new biography uses Robeson's remarkable and revolutionary life to tell the story of the 20th century's great political struggles: against racism, against colonialism, and for international socialism. This critical and searching account provides an opportunity for readers to comprehend the triumphs and tragedies of the revolutionary progressive movement of which Robeson was not just a part, but, perhaps, its most resonant symbol.
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GERALD HORNE holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History
and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He has published more than thirty books including The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA (NYU Press, 2014) and Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle (University of Illinois Press, 2013).
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Revolutionary Lives
Mohandas Gandhi India’s Non-violent revolutionary? Talat Ahmed This book introduces the life of the most iconic figure of Indian nationalism. Gandhi remains an inspirational individual for contemporary audiences. As an apostle of non-violence, he is celebrated in countless books and films. Today, in an age of permanent war, Gandhi’s message of non-violent resistance resonates internationally among a new generation. And yet he remains something of an enigma. In India he was supported by businessmen and landlords as well as the poor. The British derided him as an anarchist and the left condemned him as a 'mascot of the bourgeoisie'. Today his ideas are championed and condoned by similarly diverse groups. Talat Ahmed’s approach is to locate Gandhi as an activist within India's history. She engages with the contemporary debates about Gandhi’s ideas on non-violence, direct action and strategies for social change. This is a book that will challenge the deification of Gandhi without airbrushing his role out of the South Asian landscape. TALAT AHMED teaches History at the University of Edinburgh. She is a
Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a member of the British Association for South Asian Studies. Her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of modern South Asia.
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We Slaves of Suriname Anton de Kom Translated and introduced by Karwan Fatah-Black and Antonio Carmona Báez We Slaves of Suriname is an original history of the barbaric formation of the Dutch colony in South America. It is the life's work of Anton De Kom, the son of a slave who became a tireless resistance fighter and communist activist, even during the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940. In his defiant account, De Kom translates his personal anger at the situation into beautiful, passionate history and call-to-arms. A classic account of decolonial history, We Slaves of Suriname reveals the experience of the oppressed across the Caribbean and adds to our understanding of struggles against slavery, imperialism and racism. First published in Dutch in 1934, and then translated into German and Spanish, the book now finally sees its English translation at a time when the people of Suriname are still struggling against the vestiges of colonialism.
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‘Of Dutch influence, of Dutch energy, or of Dutch civilisation, not a trace can be found in the interior of Sranan. No path, no bridge, no house bears the marks of Dutch history. All that the Whites knew of that wilderness, the refuge of escaped slaves, was that it filled them with fear.’ ANTON DE KOM
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ANTON DE KOM was a Surinamese resistance fighter. His only book, We
Slaves of Suriname, made him a prominent anti-colonialist author. He was part of the Dutch resistance and the Communist Party in The Hague after the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940. He died after being sent to a German concentration camp in 1945.
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The Dutch Atlantic Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen. Foreword by Stephen Small Pb 978-0-7453-3107-2 £21.99
Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon. Forewords by Homi K. Bhabha and Ziauddin Sardar Pb 978-0-7453-2848-5 £13.99
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Burning Country
Syrians in Revolution and War Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a warzone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land. Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication, drawing on new first-hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists among many others. These stories are expertly interwoven with a trenchant analysis of the brutalisation of the conflict and the militarisation of the uprising, of the rise of the Islamists and sectarian warfare, and the role of governments in Syria and elsewhere in exacerbating those violent processes. With chapters focusing on ISIS and Islamism, regional geopolitics, the new grassroots revolutionary organisations, and the worst refugee crisis since World War Two, Burning Country is a vivid and groundbreaking look at a modern-day political and humanitarian nightmare. ROBIN YASSIN-KASSAB is a regular media commentator on Syria and the
Middle East. He is the author of the novel The Road to Damascus (Hamish Hamilton, 2008) and a contributor to Syria Speaks (Saqi, 2014).
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LEILA AL-SHAMI is a founding member of Tahrir-ICN, a network that
aims to connect anti-authoritarian struggles across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. She has worked with the human rights movement in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East.
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Doomed by Hope
Essays on Arab Theatre Edited by Eyad Houssami. Foreword by Elias Khoury Pb 978-0-7453-3354-0 £18.99
The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings End of an Old Order? Edited by Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer and Ziad Abu-Rish. Foreword by Roger Owen Pb 978-0-7453-3324-3 £19.99
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Chomsky Perspectives
NOAM CHOMSKY, dubbed the ‘father of modern linguistics’, is also one of the world’s foremost political commentators; the fly in the ointment of American imperialism. A self-professed anarchist-syndicalist, he contiunues to inspire new generations of activists through his fierce critique. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and the author of over one hundred books. His website is chomsky.info. ‘One of the radical heroes of our age’ Guardian
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Chomsky Perspectives
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A collection of essays written between 1986 and 2001 which explore how ‘selected incidents of terrorism’ are used as a cover for Western violence across the globe. For those who want to understand the roots of American military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, recent interventions in Libya, and the on-going destruction of Palestine this collection remains invaluable. First published in 2002.
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A vital compilation of Chomsky’s writings on a broad array of subjects. Chomsky lifts the veil of distortions that conceals the workings of history and social policy, and reveals how the ‘new’ world order is little more than a remarketing of the old. First published in 1996.
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Macroeconomics A Critical Companion Ben Fine and Ourania Dimakou
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Macroeconomics is fundamental to our understanding of how the world functions today. But too often our understanding is based on orthodox, dogmatic analysis. This distinctive book draws upon years of critical questioning and teaching and exposes how macroeconomic theory has evolved from its origins to its current impoverished and extreme state. Moving from the Keynesian Revolution to the Monetarist CounterRevolution, through to New Classical Economics and New Consensus Macroeconomics, the authors both elaborate and question the methods and content of macroeconomic theory at a level appropriate for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Macroeconomics: A Critical Companion provides a unique alternative to the multitude of standard textbooks by locating macroeconomic theory in its own history. It will be perfect for those studying macroeconomics, as well as for those looking for a new way to understand our increasingly complicated economic system. BEN FINE is Professor of Economics at the University of London's School of
Oriental and African Studies. He is the co-author of Marx's ‘Capital’ (Pluto, 2010). He was awarded both the Deutscher and Myrdal Prizes in 2009.
OURANIA DIMAKOU is Lecturer in Economics at the University of
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London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. She specialises in macroeconomic theory, policy and institutional design, particularly the central bank independence paradigm.
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Microeconomics
A Critical Companion Ben Fine Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence and evolution of microeconomics in both its historical and interdisciplinary context. From the culmination of forty years of teaching, research and policy advice on political economy, Ben Fine critically exposes the methodological and conceptual content of dominant microeconomic models without sacrificing the technical detail required for those completing a first degree in economics or entering postgraduate study. The result is a book which is sure to establish a strong presence on undergraduate reading lists and in comparative literature on the subject.
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Marx's 'Capital'
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Economics for Everyone - 2nd edition
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Egypt Revolution and Counter-Revolution Philip Marfleet This exploration of the game-changing events unfolding in Egypt today reveals the Egyptian people’s experiences five years after the start of the 'Arab Spring'. Philip Marfleet draws on testimonies of participants across the political spectrum, and uncovers their engagements in the streets, workplaces, campuses and neighbourhoods, as well as in the more formal political arena. Marfleet argues that the ‘revolution’ is an ongoing process best understood by examining the complex, changing relations among its principal actors, as well as in everyday life. Many obituaries have been written for Egypt’s attempted revolution, but those wanting to understand how the upheaval has created deep and fundamental shifts in Egyptian society and politics should look no further. PHILIP MARFLEET has worked in the fields of Development Studies,
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International Politics, Migration and Refugee Studies and Middle East Studies. He is currently Associate Director of the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London. He is author of Migration, Theory and Culture (I.B.Tauris, 2015) and co-editor with Rabab El-Mahdi of Egypt: The Moment of Change (Zed Books, 2009).
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Tweets and the Streets Social Media and Contemporary Activism
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Naija Marxisms
Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria Adam Mayer Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria. The history of ‘Naija Marxism’ is also that of the country’s labour movement, its feminist movement, its social thought and political economy. It has been the mainstay of party politics in the case of illegal Marxist party formations and legal anti-feudalist forces and in the NGO sector. Long gone are the days when Marxism meant imported pamphlets and a disconnected ideology. In Naija Marxisms, Adam Mayer argues that Marxism is alive and well in Nigeria. It includes pre-eminent thinkers such as Usman Tar and Edwin Madunagu who are currently espousing a Marxian political economy and providing a class-based approach in the country’s mainstream media channels. Drawn from years of research in Nigeria and elsewhere, Naija Marxisms breaks new ground in tracing the historical trajectories that leftist movements underwent since the 1940s. Mayer explores the international context of Nigerian Marxism and provides core chapters on key thinkers including Mokwugo Okoye, Ikenna Nzimiro and Eskor Toyo among many others. ADAM MAYER is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Webster
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University, Thailand. Formerly he served with international NGOs in Afghanistan, before teaching Politics at American University of Nigeria, Yola.
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Frantz Fanon Philosopher of the Barricades Peter Hudis Pb 978-0-7453-3625-1 £12.99
Storming Heaven Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism Steve Wright Pb 978-0-7453-1606-2 £24.99
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Bobby Sands
Nothing But An Unfinished Song Denis O’Hearn This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O’Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison warders, to provide a faithful and shocking insight into life in Northern Ireland’s H-Block prisons, an exploration of the motivations and thoughts of the Republican strikers and the story of one of the world’s most radical, inspirational figures. Following his journey from its very beginnings - an ordinary boy from a working-class background in Belfast to a highly politicised, articulate revolutionary whose death in HM Prison Maze sent reverberations around the world, Bobby Sands: Nothing But An Unfinished Song captures the atmosphere of the time and the vibrancy of the man, a militant anti-imperialist who held on to his humanity despite living through a bitter, ugly struggle. DENIS O’HEARN is Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, New
York. He has studied prison communities and conflict in the H-Blocks in Ireland, Turkish F-type prisons, and US supermax prisons. His latest book is Living at the Edges of Capitalism (University of California Press, 2016).
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‘Bobby Sands, as this magnificent biography reminds us, was a hero for the whole world. We cried when he died, but he laughed in the face of tyranny and taught us the deepest meaning of comradeship’ MIKE DAVIS, POLITICAL ACTIVIST AND HISTORIAN
‘Bobby is alive and vibrant on every page’ LAURENCE MCKEOWN, FORMER IRA HUNGER-STRIKER
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A People's History of Modern Europe William A. Pelz
MAY 2016 256pp 230mm x 150mm 5-10 b&w images Pb 978-0-7453-3245-1 £18 Hb 978-0-7453-3246-8 £65 Epub 978-1-7837-1768-2 £18 Kindle 978-1-7837-1769-9 £18
From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget. Europe provided the perfect conditions for a great number of political revolutions from below. The German peasant wars of Thomas Müntzer, the bourgeoisie revolutions of the eighteenth century, the rise of the industrial worker in England, the turbulent journey of the Russian Soviets, the role of the European working class throughout the Cold War, student protests in 1968 and through to the present day, where we continue to fight to forge an alternative to the barbaric economic system. With sections focusing on the role of women, this history sweeps away the tired platitudes of the privileged upon which our current understanding is based, and provides an opportunity to see our history differently. WILLIAM A. PELZ is Director of the Institute of Working Class History in
Chicago and a Professor of History at Elgin Community College. His recent works include Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy (Greenwood Press, 2015), The Eugene V. Debs Reader (The Merlin Press Ltd, 2014) and Against Capitalism: The European Left on the March (Peter Lang Publishing, 2007).
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Work, Sex and Power The Forces that Shaped Our History Willie Thompson Pb 978-0-7453-3340-3 £16.99
A Marxist History of the World From Neanderthals to Neoliberals Neil Faulkner Pb 978-0-7453-3214-7 £18.00
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Hesitant Comrades
The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement Geoffrey Bell This is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21. Drawing principally on primary sources, Bell brings to light important incidents in British/Irish history, including how the leaders of British trade unions were complicit in Belfast loyalist sectarianism; the troubled nature of the Labour Party’s relations with its Irish community; and how the Bolsheviks criticised British Marxists over their inaction on Ireland. The author also looks at socialist debates on the compatibility of Irish nationalism with socialism and the contentious ‘Ulster question’. Participants examined range from Ramsey MacDonald to Sylvia Pankhurst. Based on in-depth research - with sources ranging from newly discovered writings to reports of police spies - Hesitant Comrades is a scholarly, provocative and highly engaging ground-breaking perspective on the fragile relationship between the British left and the Irish revolution. GEOFFREY BELL was born in Belfast and has written extensively about
Ireland and British attitudes to ‘The Troubles’, past and recent, for print, television and exhibitions. These include Protestants of Ulster (Pluto), and Pack Up the Troubles (Channel Four).
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1916 Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition Kieran Allen
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Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition Jim Mac Laughlin
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This book rescues Peter Kropotkin's philosophy of anarchism from the neglect that it has suffered in mainstream histories of the social and environmental sciences. Stressing Kropotkin’s intellectual strengths and the philosophical integrity of anarchism, Jim Mac Laughlin counteracts the persistent misrepresentation of anarchism as a utopian creed or a recipe for social chaos and political disorder. Moving beyond most previous accounts of Kropotkin's anarchism, Mac Laughlin focuses less on the man and his political career, instead providing a sustained and critical reading of his extensive writings on the social, historical and scientific basis of modern anarchism. The result is a thorough examination of a number of key themes in Kropotkin's philosophy, including his concerted efforts to provide anarchism with an historical and scientific basis; the role of mutualism and mutual aid in social evolution and natural history; the ethics of anarchism, and the anarchist critique of state-centred nationalism and other expressions of power politics. JIM MAC LAUGHLIN is a political geographer and social scientist. He has
published widely on state formation, regional identities, nation-building, social exclusion, racism, emigration and the politics of the social and environmental sciences. Among his several books are Reimagining the Nation-State: The Contested Terrains of Nation Building (Pluto, 2001).
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The Anarchist Turn Edited by Jacob Blumenfeld, Chiara Bottici and Simon Critchley Pb 978-0-7453-3342-7 £18.99
Post-Anarchism A Reader Edited by Duane Rousselle and Süreyyya Evren Pb 978-0-7453-3086-0 £21.99
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Reconstructing Karl Polanyi
Gareth Dale Karl Polanyi was one of the most influential political economists of the twentieth century and retains a dedicated audience even today. In Reconstructing Karl Polanyi, Gareth Dale draws upon an extensive collection of primary sources to survey Polanyi’s contribution to the social sciences. He provides, for the first time, a critical analysis of Polanyi’s philosophy of science, his theory of international relations, his support for Stalin’s regime in Russia and his relationship with, and critique of, Marxism. Dale examines Polanyi’s and his followers’ interventions into debates on totalitarianism, regionalism (in particular the European Union), ‘capitalism versus democracy’, Keynesianism, McCarthyism and the economic historiography of the ancient world. With access to Polanyi’s unpublished writings and correspondence archived at Concordia University, the Széchényi Library, the University of Chicago and the Bodleian Library, Dale provides an original and wide-ranging critical account of Polanyi’s thought and legacy. GARETH DALE is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
at Brunel University, England. His previous books include The East German Revolution of 1989 (MUP, 2007) and Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (Polity, 2010).
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Bruno Latour Reassembling the Political Graham Harman Pb 978-0-7453-3399-1 £19.99
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Hannah Arendt A Critical Introduction Finn Bowring Pb 978-0-7453-3141-6 £21.99
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Footwork Urban Patrol and the Modern City Tom Hall Footwork offers an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. It shows how urban modernisation, development and politics impact on the hidden lives of people living and working on the streets. From the homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, this book reveals the stories of the vulnerable and isolated – people living in the city we often choose to ignore. Footwork follows a project conducted over five years by a team of outreach workers, tasked to look out for the homeless and others. Care-working is central to the book, and ‘caring’ in this context becomes a process of exploration and discovery. Tom Hall draws on this project in this original, unusual book, cohering aspects of urban geography, care work and street-level poverty, violence and isolation.
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TOM HALL is a lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences,
where he teaches sociology, urban theory and ethnography. He has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Better Times Than This, Youth Homelessness in Britain (Pluto, 2003).
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Anthropology's World Life in a Twenty-first-century Discipline
Ulf Hannerz Pb 978-0-7453-3047-1 £18.99
On the Game Women and Sex Work Sophie Day Pb 978-0-7453-1758-8 £24.99
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What is Modern Israel?
Yakov M. Rabkin Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology - Zionism - is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a natural advocate for the state of Israel, the author points to the Protestant roots of Zionism, thus explaining the particular support Israel musters in the United States. Drawing on many overlooked pages of history, including English, French, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian sources, Yakov Rabkin shows that Zionism was conceived as a sharp break with Judaism and Jewish continuity. Israel’s past and present must be seen in the context of European ethnic nationalism, colonial expansion and geopolitical interests, rather than as an incarnation of Biblical prophecies or a culmination of Jewish history. YAKOV M. RABKIN is Professor of History at the University of Montréal,
Canada. He has published and edited five books and more than three hundred articles. His most recent book is A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism (Zed Books, 2006).
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An Israeli in Palestine
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Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel Jeff Halper Pb 978-0-7453-3071-6 £21.99
Overcoming Zionism Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/ Palestine
Joel Kovel Pb 978-0-7453-2569-9 £18.99
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New Edition
The Universal Journalist - Fifth Edition David Randall This is the twentieth anniversary edition of one of the world's leading textbooks on journalism. Translated into more than a dozen languages, David Randall's handbook is an invaluable guide to the 'universals' of good journalistic practice for professional and trainee journalists worldwide. Randall emphasises that good journalism isn't just about universal objectives: it must also involve the acquisition of a range of skills that will empower journalists to operate in an industry where ownership, technology and information are constantly changing. His acclaimed account challenges old attitudes and rejects cynical, sloppy journalism. The updated fifth edition ensures its relevance to contemporary readers by addressing issues such as problems of 'de-skilling' in the media and new tools for digital research.
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‘A wise, witty and extremely entertaining read. Anyone who aspires to be a journalist should read Randall’ BRITISH JOURNALISM REVIEW
DAVID RANDALL is a British journalist and newspaper consultant.
Formerly assistant editor of the Observer, where his news pages won awards, he has written, edited and lectured on newspapers in Britain, Africa and Eastern Europe. He has been the Home Editor of the Independent and News Executive at the Independent on Sunday, amongst many other papers.
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Your Right to Know A Citizen's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act Heather Brooke Pb 978-0-7453-2582-8 £21.99
The Great Reporters David Randall Pb 978-0-7453-2296-4 £18.99
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The War Correspondent - Second Edition
Greg McLaughlin The War Correspondent looks at the role of the war reporter today: the attractions and the risks of the job; the challenge of objectivity and impartiality in the war zone; the danger that journalistic independence is being compromised by military control, censorship and public relations; as well as the commercial and technological pressures of an intensely concentrated, competitive news media environment. This new edition substantially updates the original, ending with an extended section on the return of history and ideology to the reporting of international conflict. It examines the ‘war on terror’ framework that dominated the first decade of the twenty-first century and, as Russia imposes itself once again on the international stage, asks if it might well give way to a new Cold War framework. If so, what will that mean for the new generation of war correspondents, attuned not to history or ideology but to the politics of the next conflict? The book features interviews with prominent war and foreign correspondents such as John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Mary Dejevsky and Alex Thomson. GREG MCLAUGHLIN is Senior Lecturer in Media and Journalism at the
University of Ulster, Ireland. His research interests are in media and conflict and in local media and journalism. He is author, with Stephen Baker, of The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process (2010).
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Power Beyond Scrutiny Media, Justice and Accountability Justin Schlosberg Pb 978-0-7453-3291-8 £17.99
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‘Useful and insightful suggestions on how the always-tense relationship between fighting forces and reporting media can be made more productive and efficient’
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How to Look Good in a War Justifying and Challenging State Violence Brian Rappert Pb 978-0-7453-3179-9 £18.99
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Solidarity without Borders Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances Edited by Óscar García Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen Series: Reading Gramsci
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Solidarity without Borders looks at the micropolitics of migrants as political actors by observing alliances between migrants and trade unions, worker organisations and different constituencies, all read within a Gramscian context. This book presents an argument for Gramsci’s theory of the formation of a transnational counter-hegemonic bloc, methods of modern resistance and new forms of solidarity between these forming groups. With case studies of the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, social movements in Ireland and the Lampedusa in Hamburg among others, the argument is explored via national contexts and structured around political dimensions. Four themes are discussed: the diversity of new migrant political actors; solidarity and new alliances across borders; avoiding misplaced alliances; and spaces of resistance. Migrants are often deprived of agency and placed outside the mobilisations taking place across Europe. Solidarity without Borders will demonstrate how new solidarity relations are shaped and how these may construct a new common ground for struggle and for developing political alternatives. ÓSCAR GARCÍA AGUSTÍN is Associate Professor at the Department
of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published articles on social movements, civil society, and political and discourse theory. He has coedited Post-Crisis Perspectives: The Common and its Powers (Peter Lang, 2013), Civil Society and Immigration: New Ways of Democratic Transformation (Migration Letters, 2013) and Politics of Dissent (Peter Lang, 2015). MARTIN BAK JØRGENSEN is Associate Professor at CoMID at the
Department for Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works within the fields of sociology, political sociology and political science. He has published articles in Internal Migration Review and Critical Sociology among others.
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Gramsci on Tahrir Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt Brecht De Smet Pb 978-0-7453-3557-5 £20
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Early Persian Empires Power Structures in Achaemenid and Sasanid Iran Leila Papoli Yazdi and Maryam Dezhamkhooy The focus of this book is on two major Persian empires, the Achaemenid and the Sasanid. These imperial regions and their lasting traditions have dictated our current understanding of historical developments in Iran. Today, historians who write about these empires have focused on the political history of the ancient power holders. Almost completely absent from existing accounts are the ways in which political structures were reproduced through actions of ‘ordinary’ people. In this way, Early Persian Empires deconstructs the mainstream nationalist-influenced discourse. It looks at how the Achaemenid and Sasanid empires are represented in contemporary Iran. What place does this heritage have in Iranian culture today? And how are their material remains mobilised for political ends? The authors engage with these periods by moving beyond colonialism and nationalism, re-reading and deconstructing the two empires as historical examples of dictatorial systems.
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LEILA PAPOLI YAZDI is a Guest Professor at Freie Universitat, Berlin and
an assistant professor in Neyshabour University, Iran. She has directed field projects in Iran, Pakistan and Kuwait. Her recent studies have been on gender performativity, historical propaganda, violence and archaeology. MARYAM DEZHAMKHOOY is Post-Doctoral Fellow at Universitat
Heidelberg, Germany and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Iran. Her recent publications are on gender and political interpretations of the historical era of Iran.
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The Roman Empire Roots of Imperialism Neville Morley Pb 978-0-7453-2869-0 £18.99
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Anthropology, Culture and Society
Participatory Democracy and the Entanglements of the State The Limits to Citizen Power Victor Albert
JUNE 2016 224pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3617-6 £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3612-1 £60 Epub 978-1-7837-1798-9 £18.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1799-6 £18.99
In the twilight of Brazil’s military regime, a new autonomous union movement emerged in the industrial city of Santo André that would eventually lead to the formation of the Workers’ Party and a whole raft of participatory reform. Today, Brazil is cited, and celebrated, as a laboratory for popular and participatory forms of government. However, no political project can exist entirely outside the power relations from which it is trying to emerge. Drawing on 16 months of ethnographic research, Victor Albert provides a critical analysis of citizen participation in Santo André, in Greater São Paulo. He explores how a limited administrative capacity, a fractured and largely demobilised civil society, and a clientelism and patronage politics all cut against the democratic grain, largely relegating the participating citizenry to playing bit parts in the theatre of local politics in which they should have starred. Participatory Democracy and the Entanglements of the State offers a fascinating window into how the power relations between political appointees, public officials and local community activists is expressed and reproduced in everyday interactions in public assemblies and meetings. Albert also reveals how different social actors think and feel about citizen participation away from formal assemblies, and how they continue to engage in what is a tenuous, and at times mutually distrustful, tactical and strategic relationship with political patrons. VICTOR ALBERT is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Digital
Ethnography Research Centre, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, in Melbourne, Australia.
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Race and Ethnicity in Latin America Peter Wade Pb 978-0-7453-2947-5 £18.99
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Base Encounters The US Armed Forces in South Korea Elisabeth Schober Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military installations have come under scrutiny. The Korean peninsula is one of the most heavily militarised regions in the world and the conflict between the North and South is continually exacerbated by the presence of nearly 30,000 US soldiers in the area. Crimes committed in GI entertainment areas have been amplified by an outraged public as both a symbol for, and a symptom of, the uneven relationship between the United States and the small East Asian nation. Elisabeth Schober’s ethnographic history scrutinises these controversial zones in and near Seoul. Sharing the lives of soldiers, female entertainers and anti-base activists, she gives a comprehensive introduction to the social, economic and political factors that have contributed to the tensions over US bases in South Korea. ELISABETH SCHOBER is a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oslo. She
received her PhD from Central European University, Hungary. Schober has conducted ethnographic field research in Austria, Slovenia, South Korea and the Philippines.
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Crisis in Korea America, China and the Risk of War Tim Beal Pb 978-0-7453-3162-1 £21.99
The Bases of Empire The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts Edited by Catherine Lutz Pb 978-0-7453-2832-4 £19.99
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Jallad Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia
Tasneem Khalil A deep, cutting edge analysis of the politics and state mechanisms that perpetuate human rights abuses in South Asia 176pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3570-4 - £12.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3571-1 - £55
Syriza Inside the Labyrinth
Kevin Ovenden. Foreword by Paul Mason A political overview of the rise and victory of Syriza in Greece, with historical analysis. 208pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3686-2 - £12.99
War Against the People Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
Jeff Halper A disturbing insight into the new phenomenon of the 'securocratic' war in the modern policed world, with a focus on the Isreali state 352pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3430-1 - £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3431-8 - £60
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The Last Drop The Politics of Water
Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes A close look at the most political resource on earth - water 224pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3491-2 - £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3492-9 - £55
Islamic State Rewriting History
Michael Griffin A fast-paced, narrative-driven account of the rise of Islamic State, based on thorough research 208pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3651-0 - £12.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3656-5 - £50
China and the 21st Century Crisis Minqi Li Ambitious study of China’s place within a capitalist world economy and ecological crisis 232pp 230mm x 150mm Pb 978-0-7453-3538-4 - £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3537-7 - £60
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Migrant Workers' Struggles Today
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The Coming of the Global Working Class
This global volume explores migration, precarious employment, transformation of paid work and the political actions of immigrant and migrant workers
Immanuel Ness
Just Work?
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Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice
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Jin Haritaworn Seeks to understand how post 9/11 society creates notions of negative racial / sexual myths, such as the new discourse on 'Muslim homophobia'. 224pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3061-7 - £16.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3062-4 - £65
Mary Mellor A case for the common ownership of money as a solution to the financial crisis 224pp 215mm x 135mm PB 978-0-7453-3554-4 - £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3555-1 - £60
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Eds Nick Buxton & Ben Hayes A collection of essays discussing how the elite exploit the impact of climate change and how local communities can resist this process. 256pp 230mm x 150mm Pb 978-0-7453-3696-1 - £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3691-6 - £60
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Augusto Boal
Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
‘Should be read by everyone who has any pretensions to political commitment.’ John Arden 192pp 215mm x 135mm 1 figure Pb 978-0-7453-2838-6 £15.99 Hb 978-0-7453-2839-3 £50
Ndongo Samba Sylla A provocative and deeply informative exploration of the Fair Trade phenomenon, suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike. 208pp 215mm x 135mm 8 figures Pb 978-0-7453-3424-0 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3425-7 £60
The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance Hacking the Future of Money
Brett Scott Shows how activists can tap into the internal dynamics of the sector to disrupt it and showcases the growing alternative finance movement. 272pp 198mm x 129mm 2 figures Pb 978-0-7453-3350-2 £13.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3351-9 £55
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Against Austerity How We Can Fix the Crisis They Made
Richard Seymour A blistering, accessible and invigorating polemic against the current political consensus. 208pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3328-1 - £12.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3329-8 £50
Bestsellers - Middle East
Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban
More Bad News From Israel
Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11
Greg Philo and Mike Berry
Syed Saleem Shahzad A unique insight into the post-Osama bin Laden generation of al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders from a journalist who interviewed many of them. 280pp 215mm x 135mm 7 maps Pb 978-0-7453-3101-0 £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3102-7 £65
SECOND EDITION
A History of Modern Lebanon Fawwaz Traboulsi Second updated edition of the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period, by a leading Lebanese intellectual. 320pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3274-1 £22.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3275-8 £65
Large-scale examination of media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. 488pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-2978-9 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-2979-6 £55
Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi
Anbara Salam Khalidi Foreword by Marina Warner The first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. 184pp 215mm x 135mm 17 photographs Pb 978-0-7453-3356-4 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3357-1 £60
SECOND EDITION
Israeli Apartheid A Beginner's Guide
Ben White Updated and expanded edition of best-selling introduction to the IsraelPalestine conflict. 224pp 198mm x 129mm 7 maps, 8 figures, 12 photographs Pb 978-0-7453-3463-9 £11.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3464-6 £45
White City Black City Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa
Sharon Rotbard A new urban parable which uncovers the original Palestinian history deliberately hidden behind the modernist façade of Tel Aviv. 256pp 215mm x 135mm with flaps, 80 photographs Pb 978-0-7453-3511-7 £14.99
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1916 7
Fatah-Black, Karwan 14
A People’s History of Modern Europe 24
Fine, Ben
Agustín, Óscar García 32 Ahmed, Talat 13 Albert, Victor 34
Hesitant Comrades 25
Allen, Kieran 7
Horne, Gerald 12
Al-Shami, Leila 15
Jeraj, Samir 10
Báez, Antonio Carmona 14
Jørgensen, Martin Bak 32
Base Encounters 35 Being Red 9
Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition 26
Bell, Geoffrey 25
Livingstone, Ken 9
Seabrook, Jeremy 11
Bobby Sands 23
Mac Laughlin, Jim 26
Solidarity without Borders 32
Burning Country 15
Macroeconomics 18
The Chaplin Machine 5
Chomsky, Noam
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Marf leet, Philip 20
The Rent Trap 10
Cut Out 11
Mayer, Adam 21
The Universal Journalist 30
Dale, Gareth 27
McLaughlin, Greg 31
The War Correspondent 31
de Kom, Anton 14
Microeconomics 19
Walker, Rosie 10
Dezhamkhooy, Maryam 33
Mohandas Gandhi 13
We Slaves of Suriname 14
Dimakou, Ourania 18
Naija Marxisms 21
What is Modern Israel? 29
Early Persian Empires 33
O’Hearn, Denis 23
Yassin-Kassab, Robin 15
Egypt 20
Papoli Yazdi, Leila 33
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Participatory Democracy and the Entanglements of the State 34
Footwork 28
Paul Robeson 12
Hall, Tom 28
Pelz, William A. 24
Hatherley, Owen 5
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New 17 Powers and Prospects 17 Rabkin, Yakov M. 29 Randall, David 30 Reconstructing Karl Polanyi 27 Schober, Elisabeth 35
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