Using a cache of hitherto unseen documents and exclusive insider accounts, this sensational new book tells the story of how a shadowy group, Labour Together, came to the cusp of delivering Sir Keir Starmer to power in Britain. It reveals, for the first time, the way the project sabotaged Corbynism through covert plotting, propelled Starmer to Labour’s leadership and now, having crushed the left in the party, poses an imminent threat to British democracy as a whole.

More

Concrete Utopia conceptualizes the human rights project of the last two and a half centuries as a “backward-looking” endeavor, which, in order to move forward, must return to the utopian roots of its foundational documents.

More

A sparkling new take on an age-old publication: The Other Almanac brings together a stellar group of young writers, artists and activists to pick up themes of environmentalism, gardening, recipes, folklore, seasonal savvy, and off- the-beaten-track amusement, all presented in brilliant color and eye-popping design. Out with the Old, in with the Other!

More

Corporate Coup looks at the attempted overthrow of the elected government of Venezuela, an intervention which, despite open backing by the United States, failed spectacularly.

More

This book focuses on several gender performers that resist and laugh at colonial projects through their aesthetic practices. Their dynamic sets the tone for the book, investigating how drag—and gender more broadly—has been privatized and delimited so that it’s only available to certain people. Decolonize Drag argues for more abundance in and access to fashioning gender, and considers how drag changes meaning and efficacy as it shifts across geographies.

More

The world’s most exuberant philosopher brings together characteristically provocative observations on war, Hollywood, and the hot topics of the day, to survey a world in which you don’t have to be mad to live, but it certainly helps.

More

Dispatches from the Diaspora brings together the vibrant journalism of one of the leading Black voices spanning the Atlantic, providing a must-read for anyone interested in the way we understand contemporary issues of race and identity.

More

Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage. Witty and sharp, McCluskey delivers a powerful intervention, issuing a manifesto for the future of trade unionism and urging the left not to lose sight of class politics.

More

Institutionalized multiculturalism today is a muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue signaling that has nothing to do with real struggles against racism and colonialism. But Decolonize Multiculturalism unearths a buried history.

More

Here, 25 of the world’s most accomplished movement lawyers and activists become storytellers, reflecting on their experiences at the frontlines of some of the most significant struggles of our time. Their stories capture the complex, and often-awkward dance between legal reform and social change in a highly readable and original anthology. More

Meticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lobby deployed charges of anti-Semitism to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for power as leader of the Labour Party.

More

Elegantly written and charmingly illustrated, The Activist Angler shows how lessons learned from angling can guide political activism and vice versa. Patience, preparation and precision are needed to catch fish . . . and to build a movement.

More

In Decolonize Self-Care, Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoë Meleo-Erwin deliver a comprehensive analysis and scathing critique of the burgeoning business of self-care. More

Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, the authors insist the picture is more complicated. More

In an accessible yet fastidiously researched intervention Early Detection sets out the urgent necessity
of fundamentally re-directing the US’s approach to cancer treatment if President Biden’s recently announced prioritization of the issue is to be successful. More

This expanded edition of Extinction contains an extensive, new introduction by the author. Dawson asserts that the catastrophic extinction rate is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole. More

Canopy of Titans examines the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. It catalogs the threats to this vital environmental resource.

More

Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow sets out what the left needs to do to regain its sense of purpose: recognizing the advances that have been made in shaping policy agenda and intervening more confidently on the essential values of the Party. It assesses the position of Labour’s left in local government, in the internal structures of the Party and in the affiliated unions, and sets out a strategy for the left to maximise its impact and rediscover its relevance.

More

Power Concedes Nothing tells the stories behind a victory that won both the White House and the Senate and powered progressive candidates to new levels of influence. It describes the on-the-ground efforts that mobilized a record-breaking turnout by registering new voters and motivating an electorate both old and new. In doing so it charts a viable path to victory for the vital contests upcoming in 2022 and 2024.

More

Filled with stories of struggle and strength, fear and loss, love and rage, The Work of Living is a deeply human history of one of the defining events of the 21st century told by the people who lived it.

More

The Dead Center takes an acerbic and often ribald eye to contemporary politics, particularly those of mainstream liberals in the United States. Combining engaging polemic and serious intellectual analysis, it offers a timely portrait of a political landscape sullied by an already ineffectual Biden administration, the marginalization of forces around Bernie Sanders and the ominous shadow of Donald Trump in the wings.

More

Beyond Fossil Law: Climate, Courts, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future answers a pressing question for the future of the planet: why is it legal for companies to pump dangerous gases into the atmosphere but illegal for regular people to stop them? Reviewing the current state of “fossil law”—the rules and regulations that allow the disruption of the global climate system—the book explains how financial interest, colonial power, and outmoded legal ideas block efforts to prevent global warming.

More

The Art of Activism brings together the authors’ extensive practical knowledge—gleaned from over a decade’s experience training activists around the world—with theoretical insights from fields as far-ranging as cultural studies and cognitive science. From the United Farm Workers’ boycott movement in sixties’ California to a canal-side beach in present-day Saint Petersburg, these pages are packed with contemporary and historical case studies that have been shown to work in practice.

More

A vital riposte to Cuomo’s recently published book about the pandemic, now increasingly derided as self-serving and deceitful, The Prince is a searing indictment of Cuomo’s handling of coronavirus and his time overall in the highest office of the state.

More

Above the Law recounts 12 cases in which justice was denied because of QI. The stories are accompanied by infographics, timelines, and contextualizing background to create a concise and compelling indictment of an outrageously unjust legal principle that must be changed

More

Since leaving her American homeland in 2003 Belén Fernández had been an inveterate traveler. Ceaselessly wandering the world, the only constant in her itinerary was a conviction never to return to the country of her childhood. Then the COVID-19 lockdown happened and Fernandez found herself stranded in a small village on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

More

Julian Assange In His Own Words provides a highly accessible survey of Assange’s philosophy and politics, conveying his views on how governments, corporations, the military, and the press function. As well as addressing the significance of the vast trove of leaked documents published by WikiLeaks, Assange draws on a polymathic intelligence to range freely over quantum physics, Greek mythology, macroeconomics, modern literature, and empires old and new..

More

Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of mainstream culture, cultural commodity, status, butt of all jokes and ready-made meme.

More

In a career that spanned five decades up to his death in 2016, Michael Ratner was involved in a wide range of high-profile cases. From working with William Kunstler in pursuing justice after the notorious prison massacre at Attica, to representing the revolutionary governments in Cuba and Nicaragua and prisoners interned at Guantanamo Bay in the wake of 9/11, through to being Julian Assange’s’ principal US lawyer, Ratner never shied away from taking on difficult, controversial cases.

More

Following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and with the presidential election weeks away, Donald Trump had the opportunity to place a new justice on the Supreme Court. Attempting to stabilize his eroding support among white evangelicals, he handed over the selection of the nominee to a small group of evangelical leaders and in doing so, breached the religious test clause of the Constitution. More

In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World, Žižek delves into some of the more surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing—and the increasingly unruly opposition to them by “response fatigued” publics around the planet. More

This book is part of the Courage Foundation’s #WeAreMillions, an arts project demonstrating the global support for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange as he fights extradition to the United States. #WeAreMillions features striking black and white images of supporters holding signs that express simply and clearly why they are standing up for Julian Assange. The supporters are young and old, well-known and anonymous, and from all around the world. More

Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. She famously won the devotion of one of the greatest poets of the age, William Butler Yeats. Born into tremendous privilege, she allied herself with rebels and the downtrodden and openly defied what was at the time the world’s most powerful empire. More

The gap between what we know and what we do has haunted the field of moral philosophy since antiquity, and is at the center of today’s environmental crisis. Put simply: if we know that we are destroying the planet, our habitat, why do we continue to do it? The ten dialogues collected here investigate this question, and propose how we might salvage the planet and save our own lives. More

Everything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. More

Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on “Slow Death Row” while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters that make up this book, an extraordinarily eloquent correspondent. More

In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis looks at the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world. More

As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes, and speculate on the profundity of its consequences, all in a manner that will have you sweating profusely and gasping for breath? More

People’s Power provides a persuasive critique of a market-led transition to renewable energy. It surveys the early development of the electric grid in the United States, telling the story of battles for public control over power during the Great Depression. More

It’s tough being an author these days, and it’s getting harder. A recent Authors Guild survey showed that the median income for all published authors in 2017, based solely on book-related activities, was just over $3,000, down more than 20% from eight years previously. Roughly 25% of authors earned nothing at all. Price cutting by retailers, notably Amazon, has forced publishers to pay their writers less. A stagnant economy, with only the rich seeing significant income increases, has hit writers along with everyone else. More

An Inheritance for Our Times is a reader that includes original essays in the form of both personal accounts and intellectual arguments from activists and theorists advocating a democratic socialist outlook. More

Lucid Dreaming is an unprecedented global collection of discussions with documentary and experimental filmmakers, giving film and video its rightful place alongside the written word as an essential medium for conveying the most urgent concerns in contemporary arts and politics. More

This finely-honed indictment by a writer widely acknowledged for his forensic skills is directed at Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. It sets out how she defiled her office by refusing to investigate credible allegations of Israeli criminality. More

Fifteen conversations between a celebrated writer and a philosopher/robotics engineer that delve into basic questions surrounding our existence, covering topics such as “Where Are Words?”, “The Reality of Dreams,” “The Object of Consciousness,” and “Does Information Smell?” More

Governments and corporations now have the tools to track and control us as never before. In this whistleblowing how-to, we are provided with tools and techniques to fight back and hold organizations, agencies, and corporations accountable for unethical behavior. More

The charges Assange faces are a major threat to press freedom. A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day. More

Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke O’Neil’s finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O’Neil grinder. More

Thoughts and Prayers is a beautiful and startling volume of poetry about our political existence. With both humor and luminosity, it gets at the personal and collective emotional experience of American public life. More

Under the Presidency of Donald Trump, the existence of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has become a highly controversial issue. With widespread separation of families and legion abuses in privately owned detention centers, all fueled by openly racist pronouncements from the White House, increasing numbers are now demanding the abolition of the agency. More

CBD has insinuated itself into every aspect of our lives, from body oil to pet food. The cannabis derivative cannabidiol is an omnipresent cure-all that has gone from being “voguish” to “a mainstream panacea,” as The New York Times recently noted. And it’s a particular favorite of the crowd endemic to Brooklyn, the Bay Area and other similar urban environs. More

In October 2018 Brazilians elected Jair Bolsonaro as their new President. A former army officer who served under the military dictatorship, Bolsonaro has spent his political career campaigning against democracy and human rights. Sometimes described as a Tropical Trump, this greatly under-estimates the threat that he poses to Brazil´s still young and fragile democratic institutions. More

This short, intense book exposes life inside the largest, most violent gang in the world, Mara Salvatrucha 13, more commonly known as MS-13. Right in the heart of El Salvador’s violent capital San Salvador, anthropologist Juan José Martínez d´Aubuisson observes firsthand an escalating cycle of violence between MS-13 and its sworn enemies from Barrio 18 as it becomes a war fought on a professional scale with grenades and machine guns. More

In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider’s guide to the variety of ways today’s mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as “the news” is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business. More

Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikstan, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world. More

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour stands on the brink of power, promising a fundamental re-ordering of British politics. But what, in practice, will this entail? How can a radical government stand up to an establishment that is hostile to any significant redistribution of wealth and power? People Get Ready! dives into the nitty gritty of what’s needed to bring about transformative change.More

There is a current revival of Black Consciousness, as political and student movements around the world – as well as academics and campaigners working in decolonization – reconfigure the continued struggle for socio-economic revolution.More

Lawyers regularly take the lead in polls as the most unpopular of all professions, ahead, even, of bankers and journalists. But the lawyers featured in this book are different. The stories they tell and the cases they fought are admirable and often inspiring. More

Fred W. McDarrah was the ultimate chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in the 1960s and 70s, and therefore of a signal moment in gay culture when he captured the community around the Stonewall uprising fifty years ago. More

In these short vignettes, Buddhist teacher Cuong Lu shares his insight into the prisoner’s mindset, something with implications for us all, whether or not we are in a conventional jail. More

Wolfgang Kaleck, best known as Edward Snowden’s lawyer, is a human rights activist extraordinaire. For more than two decades, he has travelled the world to fight alongside those suffering injustice at the hands of powerful players. More

Representing the diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, Women of Resistance unites new writers, performers, and activists with established poets to take a feminist stance against the new authority. More

In often dreamlike peregrinations around his home towns of Liverpool, London and New York Andy Merrifield reflects on what cities mean to us and how they shape the way we think. More

In a breathless cascade of poetry and prose, celebrated performance artist Karen Finley here lays bare the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today’s American politics. More

Money and Class in America is a caustic, and often hilarious, portrait of a segment of the American population who have become only further removed—both in terms of wealth and social awareness—from everyone else. More

When white nationalists and their supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators in the college town of Charlottesville over the removal of a Confederate statue, resulting in the death of one anti-racist activist and the wounding of thirty-five more, a signal moment in American history was reached. More

In the first general-audience book on the subject, legendary activist Medea Benjamin elucidates the mystery behind the U.S.’s complex entanglement with Iran. More

Why are whistleblowing and digital dissidence presented by the media as so heavily male dominated? Three activists and digital rights advocates discuss. More

In What’s Yours Is Mine, Tom Slee argues that the new wave of companies known as the sharing economy, including tech giants Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, and Uber, is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. Now updated and revised throughout, with a new foreword by the author. More

The authors of The Wellness Syndrome dive inside the burgeoning self-optimization movement, which seeks to transcend the limits placed on us by being merely human—whether the feebleness of our bodies or our mental incapacities. More

The focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products and policies. In a lively, sweeping history, Featherstone raises profound questions about democracy, desire and the innermost workings of consumer society. More

The follow-up to the bestselling Beautiful Trouble, Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South.
More

Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. More

Sophisticated enough for veteran activists, accessible enough for newbies, this compact pocket edition of the bestselling Beautiful Trouble showcases the synergies between artistic imagination and shrewd political strategy in a generously illustrated volume can easily be slipped into your pocket as you head out to the streets. More

Boycott and divestment are essential tools for activists around the globe. This is the essential reader for today’s creative leaders and cultural practitioners, including original contributions by artists, scholars, activists, critics, curators and writers. More

Swords in the Hands of Children is the true story of an intellectually adventurous gay man immersed in the macho, misogynistic and confrontational environment of the Weather Underground. More

Marshall McLuhan was the visionary theorist best known for coining the phrase “the medium is the message.” Now, his media scholar son Eric has recovered all the “lost” tetrads that he and his father developed, and accompanies them here with accessible explanations of how they function. More

How many of Piketty’s groundshaking concepts have gone unappreciated, all for want of intellectual stamina? Written in clear and accessible prose by an experienced economist and teacher, in this handy and slim volume, Jesper Roine explains all things Piketty. More

Artist and animal rights advocate Sue Coe unleashes an outraged cry for action that, with extraordinary images and few words, takes its rightful place alongside the other great manifestoes of history. More

With extremism spreading across the globe, a reduced U.S. need for Saudi oil, and a thawing of U.S. relations with Iran, the time is right for a re-evaluation of our close ties with the Saudi regime. More

One day in the fall of 2013, the unimaginable scale of the refugee crisis became clear to the only optician on the island of Lampedusa, an ordinary man in his fifties, and it changed him forever: as he was out boating with some friends, he encountered hundreds of men, women and children drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck. More

This book argues for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies. It is a call for a new kind of online economy, one free from the economics of monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance. More

Black Ops Advertising dissects this rapid rise of “sponsored content,” a strategy whereby advertisers have become publishers and publishers create advertising—all under the guise of unbiased information. More

In this richly packed portmanteau of traveler’s tales, we accompany Tom Lutz as he drives beyond the blacktop in Morocco, to the Saharan dunes on the Algerian border, and east of Ankara into the Hittite ruins of Boğazkale. More

Can we build a robot that trips on acid? Is the human brain based on computation? In Beyond Zero and One, Andrew Smart challenges fundamental assumptions underlying artificial intelligence and convincingly makes the case that the answer lies beyond the computational. More

Each year in the U.S., a quarter of a million deaths are attributable to medical error. Killer Care lays out the very real dangers we face whenever we enter a hospital: rampant carelessness, overwork, ignorance, and hospitals trying to get the most out of their caregivers and the most money out of their patients. More

Collected in The Gulf is the work of the Gulf Labor Coalition, a group of writers and artists who have been pressuring Saadiyat Island’s Western cultural brands—including the Louvre, the Guggenheim, the British Museum and New York University—to ensure worker protections. More

It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. More

The stories in Tales of Two Cities mix fiction and reportage to convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side-by-side with people who have a stupefyingly different income. More

Julian Assange and the chairman of Google Eric Schmidt debate the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network—and outline radically opposing perspectives. More

Gay Propaganda offers an intimate window into the hardships faced by Russians on the receiving end of state-sanctioned homophobia. Here are tales of men and women in long-term committed relationships as well as those still looking for love; of those living in Russia or joining an exodus that is rapidly becoming a flood. More

In this forceful, eye-opening survey, Andrew Ross contends that we are in the cruel grip of a creditocracy – where the finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. More

Drawing in real time from inside the courtroom, artist and WikiLeaks activist Clark Stoeckley captures the extraordinary drama of The United States vs. Pvt. Chelsea Manning, one of the most secretive trials in American history. More

After being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, writer and political activist Mike Marqusee came to realize that writing about his cancer provided a precious continuity with his life before contracting the disease. More

When Salma was 13 years old her family shut her away, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and sneaking them out of the house. In this book, Salma and acclaimed documentarian Kim Longinotto portray an extraordinary life and the challenges of capturing it on film. More

Julian Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave us. More

A survivor of corporate-mandated “Six Sigma” training to improve efficiency, Smart has channeled his “loathing” of the time-management industry into a witty, informative and wide-ranging book that draws on the most recent research into brain power. Use it to explain to bosses, family, and friends why you need to relax – right now. More

“A report from the trenches where a wide array of small-d democracy and transparency activists are hard at work…using new tools and methods to open up previously closed and powerful institutions and make them more accountable.” —from the author’s introduction More

Who is Private Chelsea Manning? Why did she allegedly commit the largest security breach in American history—and why was it so easy? Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young woman obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing. More

Hacking Politics is a firsthand account of how a ragtag band of activists and technologists overcame a $90 million lobbying machine to defeat the most serious threat to Internet freedom in memory. More

In Mad Science, Joseph Mangano strips away the near-smothering layers of distortions and outright lies that permeate the massive propaganda campaigns on behalf of nuclear energy. More

It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine, in this account by a celebrated Palestinian writer of daily life in the Occupied West Bank. More

On the eve of the opening of the 30th Olympiad in London this summer, sports activist and commentator Mark Perryman presents a sharply critical take on the way the Games have been organized and an imaginative blueprint for how they could be improved. More

A book that takes the pulse of the victims of today’s financial crisis and delivers a prognosis combining an extraordinary mix of pathos, anger, solidarity and humor. More

Norman Finkelstein, who, drawing on extensive readings of Gandhi’s copious oeuvre and intensive reflection on the way that progress might be made in the seemingly intractable impasse of the Middle East, here sets out in clear and concise language the basic principles of Gandhi’s approach. More

“In this remarkably cogent and carefully researched book, Medea Benjamin makes it clear that drones are not just another high-tech military trinket. Drone Warfare sketches out the nightmare possibilities posed by this insane proliferation.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed More

Richly illustrated with full-color paintings and drawings throughout, Cruel conveys the terrible beauty, and intense suffering, of both the animals so sacrificed and the workers involved in their violent destruction. More

Richly illustrated in a paper-bound case with silver foil stamping, this limited edition of 75 features full-color paintings and drawings throughout, maroon endpapers signed in silver by the author and color illustrations throughout. More

“An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain.” —Jonathan Lethem More

“A chilling account of the use and justification of torture by the Bush Administration, made the more powerful by its dispassionate, forensic language.” —Salman Rushdie More

“…Here’s what isn’t happening: an outpouring of political outrage forcing leaders around the globe to wean our world off the fossil fuels that cause this heating. In some sense, this anthology is an attempt to deal with that paradox.” —from the introduction, More