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Crisis and Predation
How India's COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disasterWith the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent lockdown on an already depressed economy,...
Digitalization in India
Bill Gates, Nandan Nilekani, the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum are all agreed: India’s digitalization process is transformational. Digitalization saves the Indian government money,...
Behind the Invasion of Iraq
"This book contributes significantly ot the conversation seeking to understand the international forces at play in the threatening war on Iraq."Nelson Mandela "Behind the Invasion of Iraq . . .synthesizes...
Essays on the Political Economy of Africa
These essays, by two of the foremost scholars who worked in the Marxist tradition on African economic and social issues, offers an overview of socialism and economic development, and of nationalism...
The Knowledge Economy and Socialism
Examines Cuba’s approach to scientific research, and distinguishes it from that of capitalist societies “Cuba's future must, by necessity, be a future of scientists,” Fidel Castro proclaimed...
The Political Economy of Media
The influence of media on society is unquestioned. Its reach penetrates nearly every corner of the world and every aspect of life. But it has also been a contested realm, embodying class politics and...
The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh
Early essays by a legendary freedom fighter and Indian intellectual“The state, the government machinery is just a weapon in the hands of the ruling class to further and safeguard its interest. We...
Beyond Leviathan
A field-defining masterwork, this posthumous publication maps the evolution of the idea of the state from ancient Greece to today István Mészáros was one of the greatest political theorists of the...
Between Capitalism and Community
Connects the Marxist construct of capitalism to systems of communityIn this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning, Beyond Capital. Karl Marx, in Capital, focused...
How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution
A first hand account of a society mobilized from below at a critical time in its historyHow the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution brings us to the heart of one of the most precarious...
A Land With a People
A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and artA Land With a People is a book of stories, photographs and poetry which elevates rarely heard Palestinian and Jewish voices and visions. Eloquently...
Labor in the Global Digital Economy
For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and...
Jazz and Justice
A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New...