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  • Tell the Bosses We're Coming
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    Tell the Bosses We're Coming

    Lengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security. Never have so many workers needed so much support. Yet the very labour unions that could garner us protections and help us speak up for ourselves are growing weaker every day. In an...
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  • Capitalism in the Anthropocene
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    Capitalism in the Anthropocene

    Explores capitalism's role in creating the current state of climate emergency Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us...
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  • Capitalism in the Anthropocene
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    Capitalism in the Anthropocene

    Explores capitalism's role in creating the current state of climate emergency Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us...
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  • Work Work Work
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    Work Work Work

    Explains the reality of labor markets and the nature and necessity of class struggle For most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets like any other - and what happens after that is not their concern. Individual prospective...
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  • Work Work Work
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    Work Work Work

    Explains the reality of labor markets and the nature and necessity of class struggle For most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets like any other - and what happens after that is not their concern. Individual prospective...
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  • A Left Green New Deal
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    A Left Green New Deal

    What does a successful socialist Green New Deal look like? With the cascading effects of multiple ongoing health and economic crises, conditions are ripe for the emergence of a global progressive social project capable of moving us beyond...
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  • Inequality, Class, and Economics
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    Inequality, Class, and Economics

    What if neoclassical economics addressed the question of class? This accessible overview of economic theory launches this investigation The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading every aspect of society-- and then multiplied them...
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  • Inequality, Class, and Economics
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    Inequality, Class, and Economics

    What if neoclassical economics addressed the question of class? This accessible overview of economic theory launches this investigation The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading every aspect of society-- and then multiplied them...
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  • The Return of Nature
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    The Return of Nature

    Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster's Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl...
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  • Crisis and Predation
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    Crisis and Predation

    Even before the advent of COVID19, India's economy was in a depression. The condition of vast masses of people, particularly those in the informal sector, was grave. Then the Indian government, responding to the COVID pandemic, imposed the most stringent...
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  • Extraordinary Threat
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    Extraordinary Threat

    The US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government - and Venezuela's heightening precarity In March 2015, President Obama initiated sanctions against Venezuela, declaring a "national emergency with respect to the...
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  • Migration, Ethics and Power
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    Migration, Ethics and Power

    In 2014, the ethics and politics of hospitality were brought into stark relief. Three years into the Syrian conflict, which had already created nearly 2.5 million refugees and internally displaced 6.5 million, the UN called on industrialised countries to...
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  • Value and Crisis
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    Value and Crisis

    Marxist economic thought has had a long and distinguished history in Japan, dating back to the First World War. When interest in Marxist theory was virtually nonexistent in the United States, rival schools of thought in Japan emerged, and brilliant...
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  • Value and Crisis
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    Value and Crisis

    Marxist economic thought has had a long and distinguished history in Japan, dating back to the First World War. When interest in Marxist theory was virtually nonexistent in the United States, rival schools of thought in Japan emerged, and brilliant...
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  • Value and Crisis
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    Value and Crisis

    Marxist economic thought has had a long and distinguished history in Japan, dating back to the First World War. When interest in Marxist theory was virtually nonexistent in the United States, rival schools of thought in Japan emerged, and brilliant...
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  • Value and Crisis
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    Value and Crisis

    Marxist economic thought has had a long and distinguished history in Japan, dating back to the First World War. When interest in Marxist theory was virtually nonexistent in the United States, rival schools of thought in Japan emerged, and brilliant...
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  • How to Read Marx's Capital
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    How to Read Marx's Capital

    With the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, a general interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital - Marx's foundational nineteenth century work on political economy - is by no means considered an easily understood text. Central...
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  • How to Read Marx's Capital
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    How to Read Marx's Capital

    With the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, a general interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital - Marx's foundational nineteenth century work on political economy - is by no means considered an easily understood text. Central...
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  • Capital and Imperialism
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    Capital and Imperialism

    Those who control the world's commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking...
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  • Capital and Imperialism
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    Capital and Imperialism

    Those who control the world's commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking...
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  • A Woman in Both Houses
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    A Woman in Both Houses

    The first woman to serve in both houses of the New Mexico legislature, Pauline Eisenstadt has witnessed many exciting moments in the state's political history and made much of that history herself. Her memoir takes readers to the floors of the House and...
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  • Re-creating the Circle
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    Re-creating the Circle

    A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination: the returning of Indigenous peoples to sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and...
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  • Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2008
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    Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2008

    Whether touted for its burgeoning economy, affordable housing, and pleasant living style, or criticized for being less like a city than a sprawling suburb, Phoenix, by all environmental logic, should not exist. Yet despite its extremely hot and dry...
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  • Vibrant Matter
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    Vibrant Matter

    In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of...
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  • Making Martial Races
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    Making Martial Races

    A central organizing category in colonial Africa, "martial race" was a notion debated and negotiated between African men and women and the European officials who sought to control them. European colonizers in Africa required the service of local soldiers...
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  • An Ordinary Life?
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    An Ordinary Life?

    Tonia Lechtman was a Jew, a loving mother and wife, a Polish patriot, a committed Communist, and a Holocaust survivor. Throughout her life these identities brought her to multiple countries-Poland, Palestine, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and...
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  • Genders 24
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    Genders 24

    In these spirited and powerfully written essays, a new generation of intellectuals makes its mark, challenging conservatives and liberals alike to chart a new course for a responsible politics in contemporary society. A new intellectual movement on the...
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  • Genders 24
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    Genders 24

    In these spirited and powerfully written essays, a new generation of intellectuals makes its mark, challenging conservatives and liberals alike to chart a new course for a responsible politics in contemporary society. A new intellectual movement on the...
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  • Orange Revolution and Aftermath:
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    Orange Revolution and Aftermath:

    In 2004, hundreds of thousands of Ukranian protestors mobilized in the streets of Kyiv against authoritarian rulers who had clearly falsified the Fall elections. The size and efficacy of the Orange Revolution, as the protest became known, surprised...
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  • Immigrants against the State
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    Immigrants against the State

    From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its...
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  • The Syriza Wave
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    The Syriza Wave

    Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. First, by profligate deficit spending benefitting only themselves; second, by agreeing to an IMF "bailout" of the Greek economy, devastating ordinary Greek citizens who were...
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  • Debates on Democratization
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    Debates on Democratization

    For more than twenty years, the Journal of Democracy has been a leading voice in the conversation between scholars and practitioners about government by consent and its place in the contemporary world.If democracy means anything, it means robust debates...
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  • Debates on Democratization
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    Debates on Democratization

    For more than twenty years, the Journal of Democracy has been a leading voice in the conversation between scholars and practitioners about government by consent and its place in the contemporary world.If democracy means anything, it means robust debates...
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  • Terrorism
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    Terrorism

    A comprehensive investigation of modern terrorism and the global terrorist environment. The book uses a multidisciplinary approach and discusses an array of global case studies from the ideology of ISIS, to the Orlando Mass Shooting, and State-Sponsored...
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  • The Politics of the Right
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    The Politics of the Right

    Today the Left faces new challenges from political forces amassing on the radical right. The 52nd volume of the Socialist Register presents a serious calibration and a careful political mapping of these forces. It addresses pivotal questions on the...
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  • Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties
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    Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties

    Long before the smokestacks and factories of industrial Akron rose from Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley, the region was a place of tense confrontation. Beginning in the early 19th-century, white settlers began pushing in from the east, lured by the promise of...
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  • The Future of Free Speech
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    The Future of Free Speech

    An incisive examination of free speech's global decline and a framework for preserving expression in democratic societies. The Future of Free Speech confronts a stark truth: the right to speak freely is under siege. Once celebrated as a cornerstone of...
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  • Terrorism
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    Terrorism

    A comprehensive investigation of modern terrorism and the global terrorist environment. The book uses a multidisciplinary approach and discusses an array of global case studies from the ideology of ISIS, to the Orlando Mass Shooting, and State-Sponsored...
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  • The European Union and Democracy Promotion
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    The European Union and Democracy Promotion

    The European Union has made firm commitments to democratic reforms and human rights initiatives around the world. This volume examines and evaluates the efficacy of these efforts.Individual case studies review the background and discuss the current state...
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  • Confronting Black Jacobins
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    Confronting Black Jacobins

    The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers--France, Great Britain, and Spain--suffered an ignominious defeat and the New...
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  • Confronting Black Jacobins
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    Confronting Black Jacobins

    The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers--France, Great Britain, and Spain--suffered an ignominious defeat and the New...
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  • Confronting Black Jacobins
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    Confronting Black Jacobins

    The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers--France, Great Britain, and Spain--suffered an ignominious defeat and the New...
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  • Your Time Is Done Now
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    Your Time Is Done Now

    Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons (runaways slaves) of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War. Using the evidence to explain how the Maroons waged war against...
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  • Your Time Is Done Now
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    Your Time Is Done Now

    Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons (runaways slaves) of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War. Using the evidence to explain how the Maroons waged war against...
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  • Crafting State-Nations
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    Crafting State-Nations

    Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural diversity of many polities renders this understanding obsolete. This volume provides the...
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