Type: New Book

On the Road to Global Labour History: A Festschrift for Marcel van der Linden Editor: Karl Heinz Roth Global Labour History is a latecomer to historical science. It has only developed in the last three decades. This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art. Prominent representatives of the discipline discuss its fundamental

The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century Editors: Dario N. Azzellini and Michael Kraft The Class Strikes Back examines a number of radical, twenty-first-century workers’ struggles. These struggles are characterised by a different kind of unionism and solidarity, arising out of new kinds of labour conditions and responsive to new kinds of social and economic

The Government of Time: Theories of Plural Temporality in the Marxist Tradition Editors: Vittorio Morfino and Peter D. Thomas Can the Marxist tradition still provide new resources for thinking the specificity of historical time? This volume proposes to transform our understanding of Marxism by reconnecting with the ‘subterranean currents’ of plural temporalities that have traversed its development. From

The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917: The End of the Tsarist Regime and the Birth of Dual Power Tsuyoshi Hasegawa The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 is the most comprehensive book on the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution. Hasegawa presents in detail the intense drama of

Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Copies available from https://tinyurl.com/y9vy8dgd Adam Hanieh Framed by a critical analysis of global capitalism, this book examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are powerfully shaping the political economy of the wider

The Abolition Collective is thrilled to announce that Issue One of Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, is now available for pre-order from Common Notions Publishing!    https://www.commonnotions.org/abolition   Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics is a collectively run project supporting radical scholarly and activist research, publishing and disseminating work that encourages us to make the impossible possible, to seek transformation

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS Overripe Economy: American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy By Alan Nasser —————- From industrialisation to the present day, Overripe Economy is a genealogy of the emergence of a finance-ridden, authoritarian, austerity-plagued American capitalism. This panoramic political-economic history of the country, surveys the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the nineteenth century, the maturation

Published by Pluto Press, August 2018   BURNING UP A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption By Simon Pirani   Coal, gas and oil have been society’s main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of

Coming soon from the Historical Materialism Book Series (first with Brill, then Haymarket Books)   US TROTSKYISM: Emergence, Endurance, Resurgence 1928-1965 Three Volumes of Primary Sources edited by Paul Le Blanc, Bryan Palmer, Thomas Bias, Andrew Pollack   A remarkable documentary trilogy, providing vibrant resources from the vantage-point of those influenced by Russian revolutionary Leon

Communists and Labour – The National Left-Wing Movement 1925–1929 by Lawrence Parker    The National Left-Wing Movement (NLWM), set up by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 1925–26 to pull the Labour Party rank and file towards Communist politics, was one in which Marxists worked in a largely open fashion to promote specific programmatic

Don’t Network. The Avant Garde after Networks Marc James Léger Explores the nature of avant garde art within contemporary capitalism There is something rotten about network society. Although the information economy promises to create new forms of wealth and social cooperation, the real subsumption of labour under post-Fordism has instead produced a social factory of

Adam D. Morton’s and Andreas Bieler’s new book Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2018) has now been published. See http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/global-capitalism-global-war-global-crisis?format=PB#VCHWj1rpw2vjDaMx.97   Global Capitalism. Global War. Global Crisis. How can these conditions be understood in terms of their internal relationship so as to capture capital’s connection to the states-system of uneven and combined development, social reproduction,