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Cornwall: The Participation Reader
Book, June, 09 2011
This reader explores the conceptual and methodological dimensions of participatory research and the politics and practice of participation in development.
Leech: The FARC: The Longest Insurgency
Book, June, 09 2011
Part of Zed's groundbreaking Rebels series, Garry Leech has written the definitive introduction to the FARC, examining the group's origins, aims and ideology, and looking at its organizational and operational structures
Kwa: Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of International Trade Negotiations
Book, May, 12 2011
Based on interviews with people actually participating in the negotiations, this remarkable book lifts the shroud of secrecy surrounding these ostensibly democratic negotiations.
Harten: The Rise of Evo Morales and the MAS
Book, May, 12 2011
In this insightful and revealing book, Harten attempts to explain the success of the MAS and its wider consequences, showing how Morales has become the symbol for a new political consciousness that has entailed de-stigmatizing indigenous identities.
Harring: White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence
Book, April, 30 2011
Survey of Canadian legal history and Aboriginal peoples.
Cohn: The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse
Book, April, 19 2011
Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog.
Öktem: Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989
Book, April, 14 2011
Kerem Oktem charts the contemporary history of Turkey.
Thakur: Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace: Silencing the Guns
Book, April, 14 2011
Bringing together the lessons learned from four intensively-researched case studies the book argues that the overly rigid 'cookie-cutter' approach to demilitaristation is ineffective at meeting the myriad of challenges involving militias.
Authors: Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come
Book, April, 13 2011
How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact does it have on those who participate in it and those who simply watch it? Is the Greek revolt of December 2008 confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, or are there lesso...
Milstein: Anarchism and Its Aspirations
Book, March, 23 2011
From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the participants in the "battle of Seattle" and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have been inspired by the ideal of a free society of free individuals-a world without hierarchy or domination.
(Eds): Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petroviolence
Book, March, 10 2011
This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
Hill: The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
Book, March, 10 2011
Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements.
Thorsen: Child Migration in Africa
Book, March, 10 2011
Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's volu...
Kassem: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory
Book, March, 10 2011
Palestinian Women is the first book to examine and document the experiences and the historical narrative of ordinary Palestinian women who witnessed the events of 1948 and became involuntary citizens of the State of Israel.
Brown: Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State
Book, February, 24 2011
This book looks at the history of the experiments in grassroots democracy in China, how they arose, what they have achieved and where they might be going.
Ryan: Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Book, January, 20 2011
FROM BEAN TO BAR - WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM?
Marais: South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change
Book, January, 13 2011
South Africa Pushed to the Limit shows that although the legacies of apartheid and colonialism weigh heavy, many of the strategic choices made since the early 1990s have compounded those handicaps
Dangl: Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America
Book, December, 30 2010
In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy.
Tokar: Agriculture & Food in Crisis
Book, December, 20 2010
The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, editors Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars...
Swanson: War Is A Lie
Book, November, 24 2010
WAR IS A LIE is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good.
Khuri-Makdisi: The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
Book, November, 16 2010
In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914.
Grubacic: Don't Mourn, Balkanize!
Book, November, 15 2010
Don't Mourn, Balkanize! Is the first book written from the radical left perspective on the topic of Yugoslav space after the dismantling of the country.
Harvey: A Companion to Marx's Capital
Book, October, 09 2010
Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and some...
Lebowitz: The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development
Book, October, 09 2010
A new work in a theory of transition to socialism for the twenty-first century.
Chang: Bad Samaritans. The Guilty secrets of Rich Nations and The threat To Global Prosperity
Book, September, 30 2010
In the 1950s, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. During his childhood, Chang (Kicking Away the Ladder), a respected economist at the U. of Cambridge, witnessed the beginnings of Korea's postwar economic miracle as Gen. Park...
Levy: The Punishment of Gaza
Book, September, 26 2010
The story behind Israel’s assault on Gaza, by acclaimed Ha’aretz journalist.
Jackson: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Book, September, 26 2010
The prison letters of Black revolutionary George Jackson.
Jones: The Green Collar Economy
Book, September, 25 2010
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Barsamian: The Pen and the Sword
Book, September, 25 2010
Conversations with Edward Said by David Barsamian.
London: The Iron Heel
Book, September, 24 2010
An early dystopian classic concerning the rise of monopoly capitalism and class warfare in the USA.
Blunden: For Ethical Politics
Book, September, 22 2010
This book, written by long time political activist Andy Blunden, introduces the concept of ethical politics and presents an analysis, for both Marxist and non-Marxist readers, of the conditions under which ethical politics arises. Part 1, offers a...
Roberts: The Energy Glut: Climate Change and the Politics of Fatness
Book, September, 16 2010
The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links many public issues as manifestations of the same fundamental planetary malaise.
Pickett: The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
Book, September, 12 2010
The authors of this book present over fifty years of combined research into the social determinants of health and present what they refer to as "evidence based politics". This evendence strongly suggests that the more unequal a society gets the...
Kapp: The Social Costs of Private Enterprise
Book, September, 11 2010
". . . expose the existence of costs not accounted for in entrepreneurial expenses and to show that conventional economic theory failed to take adequate if any account of those social costs that confront us today in the form of a serious deteriora...
Gordon: Invisible War
Book, September, 11 2010
How the United States devastated Iraqi society through sanctions in the 1990's.
McQuaig: Behind Closed Doors - How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System
Book, September, 09 2010
My father worked for Revenue Canada as an Senior Auditor and as children, we were taught all about "equitable taxation". In the last 40 years, the rich have donated millions to get MP's and MPP's elected that gives the rich and corporations access...
Juschka: Political Bodies/Body Politic: The Semiotics of Gender
Book, September, 08 2010
A consistent and thoroughgoing analysis of gender has arisen in the theoretical locations of feminism, gender studies, and queer theory. Drawing upon some of the theories and coupled with the concepts of myth, symbol and ritual, Political Bodies/B...
Zinn: Emma: A Play
Book, September, 08 2010
With his wit and unique ability to illuminate history from below, historian and playwright Howard Zinn dramatizes the life of Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the United States because of her out...
Warde: The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror
Book, September, 07 2010
In The Price of Fear, Ibrahim Warde presents a devastating critique of a lesser known front in the "war on terror," the battle against terrorist financing. Warde demonstrates that the financial front has been anything but benign and has instead un...
Holloway: Crack Capitalism
Book, September, 07 2010
The latest book from John Holloway, acclaimed author of Change The World Without Taking Power.
Ross: Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies and Social Education
Book, September, 07 2010
Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Social Education: New Perspectives for Social Studies Education begins with the assertion that there are emergent and provocative theories and practices that should be part of the discourse on social stud...
Galeano: Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Book, August, 25 2010
Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano presents a collection of retold myths, stories, and narratives offering lessons from history and myth and places oppressed people rightly at the center of history's stories.
Patterson: Guernica and Total War
Book, August, 25 2010
History of the 1937 German bombing of Guernica.
Zinn: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Book, August, 25 2010
The late Howard Zinn gives an overview of his political convictions.
Rubenstein: Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War
Book, August, 23 2010
The first book to analyze in depth the arguments and images that are used to persuade ordinary Americans to fight dubious wars. “A powerful and frank discussion of the peculiar American rationales for war and the essential questions to ask about ...
Ramonet: My Life Fidel Castro
Book, August, 21 2010
Ignacio Ramonet interviewed Fidel Castro over one hundred hours between 2003 and 2005.
Finkelstein: This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion
Book, August, 21 2010
Provides a brief historical background and context to the 2008-9 Israeli war in Gaza. The book then goes on the systematically document the waging of the war, the international response, and the prospects raised for building support to end the Is...
Baker: Equality
Book, August, 20 2010
Co-authors: Kathleen Lynch, Sara Cantillon, Judy Walsh. How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature of inequality, this book it applies a new fr...
Ostler: The Lakotas and the Black Hills
Book, August, 20 2010
History of U.S. Government relations with Lakota Sioux and their claim to thee Black Hills.
Arcand: The Jaguar and the Anteater
Book, August, 20 2010
exploration of Western sexuality, its development, and how it compares to various other cultures in the anthropological record.
Gould: The Mismeasure of Man
Book, August, 20 2010
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.
Kamin: Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
Book, August, 20 2010
[A] riproaring dismantling of the recent rise of biological interpretations of why we behave as we do..required reading - Ashley Montagu.
Becker: Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements
Book, August, 20 2010
In this richly documented account, Becker chronicles a long history of Indigenous political activism in Ecuador, from the creation of the first local agricultural syndicates in the 1920s through the galvanizing protests of 1990. In so doing, he re...
Wolff: Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical
Book, August, 20 2010
Wolff and Resnick provide a unique, balanced explication of the differing assumptions, logical structures, and arguments of neoclassical and Marxian economics. They address broader aspects of evaluating or choosing between alternative theories, bu...
Estrada: Tania Undercover with Che Guevara in Bolivia
Book, August, 19 2010
Book Review. Ulises Estrada's Tania Undercover with Che Guevara in Bolivia
Aronowitz: False Promises
Book, August, 16 2010
Reprint of classic work on the American Working class and class consciousness... 'False Promises is a classic of its type, and well-known to specialist in labor studies. It is a highly original and bold perspective on American labor, still widely ...
Freire: Pedogogy of the Oppressed
Book, August, 16 2010
No other text has ever given me a greater understanding of the plight of those oppressed by the 'majority' or dominating populations. My whole understanding of the world and history was turned on its head. I recommend this book to anyone intereste...
Gorz: Strategy for Labor
Book, August, 16 2010
A Program for labor including the idea of non reformist struggles for reforms...
Orwell: Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Book, August, 16 2010
Though a work of fiction, this piece is perhaps the best window into the actual life that Orwell lived through. It captures the many subtle ways that money can pervade and poison "middle-class" life; so much so that the actual poverty of middle c...
Jensen: Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Book, August, 14 2010
Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastatin...
Jensen: All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice
Book, August, 14 2010
At the root of the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos is a national spiritual unrest, a fragmentation that has inhibited society's self-awareness and slowed theological progress to a glacial crawl.
Jensen: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
Book, August, 14 2010
In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: “How does it feel to be a problem?” In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously re...
Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Book, August, 14 2010
French thinker and writer Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the United States of America in the mid-nineteenth century.
Collective: Space for Movement?
Book, August, 14 2010
In the wake of the failed COP-15 in Copenhagen last December, Boliviaâ??s first indigenous president called for a World Peopleâ??s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC). Was this the necessary space for social movemen...
Curren: Power Without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain
Book, August, 13 2010
Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. How much power do the media have? Who really controls the media? And what is the relationship between media and power in society? In this major new boo...
Milne: The Enemy Within: Thatcher's Secret War Against the Miners
Book, August, 13 2010
Margaret Thatcher branded Arthur Scargill and the other leaders of the 1984-5 miners' strike ;'the enemy within'. With the publication of this bestselling book a decade later, the full irony of that accusation became clear. There was an enemy with...
