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THE FEARLESS BENJAMIN LAY THE QUAKER DWARF WHO BECAME THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY ABOLITIONIST BY MARCUS REDIKER  OUT NOW “This turbulent life of a seafarer, glove maker, and preacher is the stuff of legend, recovered with panache by Rediker.” – John Rees, author of The Leveller Revolution The extraordinary story of one of slavery’s earliest and

Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern By Ariel Salleh With Forewords by Vandana Shiva and John Clark A vastly updated new edition of Ariel Salleh’s landmark exploration of the relationship between feminism and ecology Shows the relevance of contemporary feminist and ecology movements to current discourses on development, environmental philosophy, Marxist and gender

FUTURES OF BLACK RADICALISM EDITED BY GAYE THERESA JOHNSON AND ALEX LUBIN   OUT NOW “The need for radical thinking has never been more evident. To this end, this book is not just a gift; it is a necessity.” – Harry Belafonte, singer, actor, activist. With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection

THE MAKING OF THE BLACK WORKING CLASS IN BRITAIN BY RON RAMDIN   OUT NOW “Well-written and presented with admirable clarity … scrupulously documented and written with dynamic flair … with almost every turn of the page the book breaks new ground.” – Caryl Phillips, Author, Playwright, Essayist In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces

THOMAS PIKETTY’S CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHAN KAUFMANN AND INGO STÜTZLE, TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER LOCASCIO   OUT NOW An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental work https://www.versobooks.com/books/2255-thomas-piketty-s-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century ———- Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm—as well as intense

Antonio Gramsci: A Pedagogy to Change the World edited by Nicola Pizzolato & John D. Holst   Springer, 2017 ISBN 9783319404479 http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319404479   Special offer of 20% off on the printed book or eBook Use the following token at springer.com: 4pFeDw7f722htXH  Valid to 09/15/2017   CONTENTS   Foreword Anne Showstack Sassoon   1 Gramsci, Politics and Pedagogy:

With the tenth anniversary of the financial crash fast approaching, ‘Employment Relations in Financial Services: An Exploration of the Employee Experience After the Financial Crash’ by Gregor Gall has just been published by Palgrave. See http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137395375 Please consider ordering a copy for your library. The author has also written a short piece in the Huffington Post on the book:

‘Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956’  is now available for pre-order. More information is available by following the link:  https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2017/06/11/waiting-for-the-revolution-the-british-far-left-from-1956-now-available-for-pre-order-from-manchester-up/

Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism Harry Harootunian Columbia University PressIn Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World

Thinking Freedom in Africa Toward a theory of emancipatory politics Author: Michael Neocosmos    Foreword: Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives emancipatory

NEW FROM VERSO: CLASS, RACE & MARXISM by David R. Roediger https://www.versobooks.com/books/2467-class-race-and-marxism ————— Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship Seen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of

Issue 1 of Materialismo storico journal is now available online.  http://ojs.uniurb.it/index.php/materialismostorico/issue/view/MS%201-2017%20%28II%29/showToc