In his new book, a professor at the Collège de France examines the forces behind Western consent to the annihilation of the Palestinian territory. In his view, this is ‘the deepest moral abyss into which the Western world has sunk since the Second World War’.…

Sex workers’ rights cannot be disentangled from other rights movements. The fight for sex workers’ rights is also the fight for border abolition, for the dismantling of the carceral state, for the redistribution of wealth and democratic ownership, for trans…

"If we do not hate the internet, what we detest is its capture, enclosure and transformation by Big Tech’s nexus of billionaire oligarchs and finance capitalists" - from the preface to Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis.

During the final week of Black History Month we're offering a collection featuring both new and classic titles on Black History.  All titles below are marked down 40%. Buy two or more from this list and the discount will extend to all books on our website.…

America’s Fatal Leap: 1991-2016 by Paul W. Schroeder is out now.

The following is an excerpt from Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered by Paul W. Schroeder. The debate over the Great War’s origins persists to this day, despite a century of controversy, a massive literature…

The Arcana of Reproduction is a unique book in the world of Marxist feminism. Generally, Marxist feminists have elaborated on the methodological significance of Marx’s work for understanding the specific historical forms of oppression that women have experienced…

Interview for the Ballast website, 18 June 2018   The word Anthropocene has taken its place in environmental debate. Humans are said to have become a geological force capable of changing the Earth system. While the concept has some merit, it has the unfortunate…

In the Latest Issue A Trumpian rupture? Susan Watkins offers some baselines for measuring the 47th President’s departures from US imperial norms. Perry Anderson  reflects on the lessons to be drawn from the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the rise of Marxism…

For over a century the world has celebrated International Women's Day to honor women's movements around the globe and to bring attention to the battles still being fought to achieve equality. We're celebrating by offering up to 40% off a selection of key…

Wednesday, March 5th, 2025   As of Wednesday 25th February 2025, Kingston University management are proposing the closure of the entire Department of Humanities, including the world-renowned Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) from which…

The 60 Minutes II segment on Abu Ghraib included an interview with General Mark Kimmitt, the deputy director of coalition operations in Iraq, who appeared on the broadcast to deliver the Army’s official response. Asked about the photograph of the dead man…

The Bund seems astonishingly prescient in the statements published during the white heat of fighting over 75 years ago. The first statement was released during the local fighting that followed the declaration of the UN partition plan in November 1947. In…

Why is every workplace tyrannical? Why must capitalists constantly intensify their exploitation of labour? And how can workers best fight today to gain power? While the demands of workers continue to be scoffed at, these books will highlight how the labour…

Originally published by Mediapart, 16 November 2022. Last updated March 2025. Forty-two years to the day after her murder, one way of paying tribute to Hélène Rytmann-Althusser is to remember that she was also the author, under the name Hélène Legotien, of…

An excerpt from Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory. Books by and on Marx are currently on sale here. Read Marx! Lee Gregovich’s injunction has been rattling around my brain for more than half a century. A good friend of my dad, he was, I suppose, my…

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways – the point however is to change it. Karl Marx's contributions to the study of economics, politics, and philosophy are beyond measure. Today we're honoring his life with a collection of indispensable…

An excerpt from A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx. Books by and on Marx are currently on sale here.     When I was young, it was my good fortune to make the acquaintance of an old German Jew who was dying, here in London, from the effects of…

What legitimises power under capitalism is called progress. Although capitalism has always produced poverty and underdevelopment, it has been legitimised by the idea that ‘in time’ everyone will enjoy the fruits of progress. It only takes some policy reforms…

 [book-strip index="1"] ‘Nobody cares’ is a common refrain, repeated in headlines, articles, and social media, about a wide array of issues that many people seem actually to care quite a lot about. Nobody cares about the carers, about Haiti, about new COVID…