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No 75. The Well Dressed Revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the Age of Uprisings

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The Well Dressed Revolutionary

Michael Pablo was a twentieth century revolutionary whose life and ideas remain relevant and inspirational in the 21st. He spent his life involved in revolutions around the globe – in Greece, France, Algeria, Chile, Palestine and Portugal, to name the most important – everywhere pursuing a genuinely democratic socialism. He was a hands-on participant and advocated and worked for what he called ‘generalised self-management or direct democracy’ – on a local, regional, national and planetary scale. For Pablo, this was utopian but realisable.

No 76. Hope and Marxism. Historical and Theoretical Essays

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Hope & Marxism

This book collects essays exploring Marxist theory and history. Most of the texts are newly translated. Essays include historical examinations of Rosa Luxemburg’s place in the German workers movement, the development of the bourgeois state, and of the roots of Nazi violence. Other chapters discuss Marx’s notions of progress, alienation and emancipation, Luxemburg’s views on political economy and political strategy. Also included are engagements with Ernst Bloch, analytical Marxism and Althusser, as well as a pioneering essay on Marxism and ecology.

No 72. Marxists against Stalinism

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Marxists against Stalinism

As the USSR disintegrated in 1990 and 1991, the Socialist Workers Party and the Fourth International took different views of the impending privatizations. Marxists Against Stalinism brings together powerful contributions from Ernest Mandel and Chris Harman in the long-running debate on the class nature of the USSR.  Chris Harman argued that Soviet Union and the other “socialist” countries were bureaucratic state-capitalisms.

No 70. System Crash. An activist guide to making revolution.

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System Crash

“Our collective future demands we start listening to people who can imagine a system other than globalised capitalism. This book is a blueprint for the world we must build together.” – Tansy Hoskins, author of Stitched-up: the anti-capitalist book of fashion (2014) and Foot Work: what your shoes tell you about globalisation (2020).

No 69. Fight the Fire. Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs

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Fight the Fire

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We are in the midst of a global pandemic and we are entering into a deep global recession, mass unemployment and the threat of runaway climate change. In every country, a great debate is beginning. What can be done about the economy and climate change? And what would a green new deal look like that meets the needs of people and the planet?

No 71. Introduction to Marxist Theory

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Ernest Mandel Vol I

Introduction to Marxist Theory contains a selection of essays on key subjects Mandel worked on: the theory of the state, imperialism, reformism, and bureaucracy. “The Leninist Theory of Organisation” is an influential essay on class consciousness and organisation. The “Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory” was widely used as a textbook in classes on Marxist economics.

No. 73. The Paris commune. An Ode to Emancipation

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No 73. The Paris Commune. An Ode to Emancipation.

The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the first working class attempts at the social emancipation of the oppressed and exploited. Between 18 March and 29 May 1871, the popular classes succeeded for a while in breaking their chains. It was a short period when people could take control of their lives. The Paris Commune is an inspiration today. The memory of the past and its struggles strengthens the fight for the utopia of the future.

No 68. Recorded Fragments. Reflections on the 20th century

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Recorded Fragments

These interviews with Daniel Bensaïd were broadcast in 2008 on the radio station Fréquence Paris Plurielle. Through them, Bensaïd gives his insight into twelve significant events including the October Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the assassination of Lumumba, the 1973 coup in Chile, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. These milestones of the ‘short twentieth century’ are necessarily a biased and partial choice. In this book, one reads some of the main analyses that structure Daniel Bensaïd’s thinking at the beginning of the 21st century.

No 67. Greece 2015: There was an alternative

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Eric Toussaint: Greece 2015

2015 will be a landmark in the history of Greece, Europe and the Left. This book can be used as a guide for readers who are content neither with the mainstream narrative spun by major media and creditors, nor with former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis’s version in his book Adults in the Room. Greece 2015 shows instead that at each stage of the path of the Greek government in 2015, there were alternatives.
With a preface by Michael Roberts.

''A devastating critique of the Syriza government and of Varoufakis' strategy and tactics during 2015''

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