Type: New Book

Materialism and the Critique of Energy Edited by Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti Materialism and the Critique of Energy brings together twenty-one theorists working in a range of traditions to conceive of a twenty-first century materialism critical of the economic, political, cultural, and environmental impacts of large-scale energy development on collective life. The book reconceives

Jon Piccini, Matthew Worley and Evan Smith have just published a new book for Routledge’s Radical History and Politics Series, The Far Left in Australia since 1945. It is available in all formats (including paperback) now.  You can order through the Routledge website here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Far-Left-in-Australia-since-1945/Smith-Piccini-Worley/p/book/9781138043855  We would also encourage you to request that your institutional library order a

NEW FROM VERSO FOR A LEFT POPULISM  By Chantal Mouffe ————— What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?  Populism, today, is the expression of a crisis of liberal-democratic politics. It is more than an ideology or a political regime. It is a way of doing politics that can take

NAKAMURA, Emmanuel. Der Maßstab der Kritik des modernen Staates bei Hegel und Marx: Der Zusammenhang zwischen subjektiver und sozialer Freiheit. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. Die hegelsche Staatsidee wurde oft mit einer ideologischen Begründung des preußischen Staates verwechselt, als ob sich eine Philosophie unmittelbar mit einer besonderen Gestaltung der realen Welt zufriedengeben könnte. Nakamura vertritt die

NEW EDITION FROM VERSO LIVING IN THE END TIMES   By Slavoj Žižek ————— Žižek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.” There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek has identified the four horsemen of this

Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers Costas Lapavitsas   A pathway to Marxist monetary theory, through the papers of one of the field’s pre-eminent scholars. This essential volume collects the papers of Costas Lapavistas, one of the first political economists to notice the ascendancy of money and finance as dominant features of contemporary capitalism. These ground

NEW EDITION FROM VERSO THE EU: AN OBITUARY By John R. Gillingham ————— A major account of the failings of the European Union—and why it has to go. The European Union is a besieged institution. It is struggling in vain to overcome the eurozone crisis and faces an influx of refugees not seen since World

Before Stalinism. The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy, by Samuel Farber, has been reprinted by Verso.  For how to order it and other details please click on the link:   https://www.versobooks.com/books/2648-before-stalinism  

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS: Managerial Capitalism: Ownership, Management and the Coming New Mode of Production By Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy —————– 30% OFF THE BOOK (With a free ebook): http://bit.ly/2E2KXSg Enter the discount coupon: ‘MANAGERIAL’ at the checkout —————– About the book: In this provocative update of the Marxian framework, Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy

NEW FROM VERSO OPENING THE GATES The Lip Affair, 1968–1981 By Donald Reid ————— How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labor struggles after May 1968. In 1973, faced with massive layoffs, workers at the legendary Lip watch firm in Besançon, France, occupied their factory to demand that no one

Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners: The Struggle for the Charter in 1919 Martyn Ives   In this riveting monograph, Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in British labor history.   While other historians have skated over the labor unrest of 1919, focusing instead on the general

New Publication from the SOCIALIST HISTORY SOCIETY The Labour Party in Historical Perspective SHS Occasional Publication No 42   This new publication from the Socialist History Society consists of seven original research papers on various aspects of Labour Party history. The Labour Party in Historical Perspective has been produced in the belief that today’s generation