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Make Bosses Pay. Why We Need Unions.

Eve Livingston

Think your union doesn't represent you? Then maybe it's time to change it.

How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour

Sian Lazar

'A masterful book - a resource that makes anthropology matter' - Andrea Muehlebach, Professor of Anthropology, University of Bremen When it comes to labour movements, unionised industrial workers on the factory floor have only ever been part of the picture. Across so many different workplaces, sectors of the economy and geographical contexts, the question of how working people struggle in the day-to-day has no single answer. Here Sian Lazar offers a unique anthropological perspective on labour agency that takes in examples from across the globe, from heavy industry and agriculture, to the service and informal sectors. She asks: how do people strive to improve their lives and working conditions? How are they constrained and enabled in that struggle by the nature of the work they do, and by their own positionality in local histories, cultures and networks? How We Struggle explores worker action across the spectrum from organised trade unionism to individualised strategies of accommodation, resistance and escape. The book marries a discussion of global political economy and Marxist feminist theories of labour with ethnographic approaches that begin from a perspective of human experience, kinship and radical heterogeneity.

Arise. Power, Strategy, and Union Resurgence

Jane Holgate

An authoritative overview of the question of power in trade union strategy

Nothing To Lose But Our Chains. Work and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Britain

Jane Hardy

Since capitalism began, British workers have always fought for their rights. Today it's no different.

Class Struggle Unionism

Joe Burns

An essential primer for rebuilding a militant labor movement centered on solidarity with all workers.

Solidarity Betrayed. How Unions Enable Sexual Harassment -- And How They Can Do Better

Ana Avendano

A lifelong labor activist lifts the lid on sexual harassment in the trade union movement

Workers Can Win. A Guide to Organising at Work

Ian Allinson

The Covid, climate and cost of living crises all hang heavy in the air. It's more obvious than ever that we need radical social and political change. But in the vacuum left by defeated labour movements, where should we begin? For longtime workplace activist Ian Allinson, the answer is clear: organising at work is essential to rebuild working-class power. The premise is simple: organising builds confidence, capacity and collective power - and with power we can win change. Workers Can Win is an essential, practical guide for rank-and-file workers and union activists. Drawing on more than 20 years of organising experience, Allinson combines practical techniques with an analysis of the theory and politics of organising and unions. The book offers insight into tried and tested methods for effective organising. It deals with tactics and strategies, and addresses some of the roots of conflict, common problems with unions and the resistance of management to worker organising. As a 101 guide to workplace organising with politically radical horizons, Workers Can Win is destined to become an essential tool for workplace struggles in the years to come.

Marx at the Arcade. Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle

Jamie Woodcock

This pathbreaking book offers a radical analysis of how people play, produce, and profit from video games, and the major role the industry plays in contemporary capitalism.

May Day Manifesto. Anniversary Edition

Raymond Williams (ed)

Anniversary edition of the classic political manifesto Urgently relevant to current arguments about the crisis of austerity, the 1968 manifesto set out a new agenda for socialist Britain, after the failure of the postwar consensus. It sought to change the nature of the state, to drive a wedge between finance and empire, to stress the importance of a planned economy for all, and to detach Britain from the imperial goals to which it had long been committed. Today, the spirit of The May Day Manifesto offers a road map to a brighter future. The original publication brought together the most influential radical voices of the era. Among the seventy signatories were Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, Iris Murdoch, Terry Eagleton, Ralph Miliband, and R. D. Laing. This edition comes with an introduction from Owen Jones, who brings a sense of urgency and hope to the contemporary debate.

Marxism and the Oppression of Women. Toward a Unitary Theory

Lise Vogel

Lise Vogel revisits classical Marxian texts, tracking analyses of the woman question" in socialist theory and drawing on central theoretical categories of Marx's Capital to open up an original theorization of gender and the social production and reproduction of material life. Includes Vogel's article, Domestic Labor Revisited" which extends and clarifies her main theoretical innovations.

King Mob Echo. From Gordon Riots to Situationists and Sex Pistols

Tom Vague

The Essential Rosa Luxemburg. Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike

Helen Scott (ed)

A new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's most important works.

Class, Race and Marxism

David Roediger

Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship David Roediger’s influential work on working people who have come to identify as white has so illuminated questions of identity that its grounding in Marxism has sometimes been missed. This new volume implicitly and explicitly reminds us that his ideas, and the best studies of whiteness generally, come from within the Marxist tradition. In his historical studies of the intersections of race, settler colonialism, and slavery, in his major chapter (with Elizabeth Esch) on race and the management of labor, in his detailing of the origins of critical studies of whiteness within Marxism, and in his reflections on the history of solidarity, Roediger argues that racial divisions not only tell us about the history of capitalism but also shed light on the logic of capital.

Workers Councils

Anton Pannekoek

The blueprint for worker control and new community sustainability.

Capital Volume 1

Karl Marx. Frederick Engels (ed)

Unabridged First published in 1867, Capital Volume 1 is Marx's most important work, a classic text for students of politics, philosophy and economics.

Tactics and Ethics 1919-1929

Georg Lukács

Tactics and Ethics collects Georg Lukács’s articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Including his famed essay on parliamentarianism—which earned Lukács the respectful yet severe criticism of Lenin—this book is a treasure chest of valuable insights from one of history’s great political philosophers.

Willing Slaves of Capital. Spinoza and Marx on Desire

Frédéric Lordon

Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the face of the disconcerting spectacle of the engaged, enthusiastic employee, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that reveals the fundamental role of affects and passions in the employment relationship, reconceptualizing capitalist exploitation as the capture and remolding of desire. A thoroughly materialist reading of Spinoza's Ethics allows Lordon to debunk all notions of individual autonomy and self-determination while simultaneously saving the ideas of political freedom and liberation from capitalist exploitation. Willing Slaves of Capital is a bold proposal to rethink capitalism and its transcendence on the basis of the contemporary experience of work.

Capitalism and Theory. Selected Writings of Michael Kidron.

Richard Kuper (ed)

The essential writings of one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of recent decades, collected in one volume for the first time

Indefensible. Democracy, Counter-Revolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism

Rohini Hensman

A defence of democracy at national and international levels, and critique of attacks on it in the name of "anti-imperialism."

Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction. Marxist Feminist Essays

Martha E. Giménez

This essential volume selects the key essays of renowned Marxist Feminist, and theorist of social reproduction, Martha E. Giménez.

The Communist Manifesto. A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document.

Karl Marx & Federick Engels

The definitive introduction to history's most influential and controversial political document, updated for a new generation of readers. Since it was first written in 1848, The Communist Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. All across the world--in countless places and idioms--it has been debated, shared, brandished, invoked, banned, burned, and even declared "dead." But in an era of escalating political, economic, health, and environmental crises, Marx and Engels' fierce indictment of capitalism is more relevant than ever, and their Manifesto remains required reading from the classroom to the picket line. Scholar Phil Gasper draws on his decades of teaching and organizing experience to produce a beautifully organized edition of the Manifesto that brings the text to life. By fully annotating the Manifesto with clear historical references and explication, a glossary, and including additional related texts, Gasper provides an accessible and comprehensive reference edition suited to first-time readers and dedicated partisans alike.

What Was Neoliberalism? Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism 1973-2008

Neil Davidson

Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson's brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era. While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how to understand its significance and even how to define it. Is it best seen as an ideology of free market fundamentalism, a series of policy decisions gutting the public sector and breaking unions, or as an era of capitalist development with its own logic Bringing his considerable intellectual breadth and characteristic generosity to bear on this question, Neil Davidson shows that to truly appreciate what is unique about neoliberalism, and what marks it out as a continuation of capitalism more generally, it is necessary to examine its social dimensions. What Was Neoliberalism? holds fast to Davidson's conviction that thoroughly understanding the past means being better prepared for the struggles of the future.

Anti-Capitalist Britain

John Carter & Dave Moreland (eds)

"Anti-Capitalist Britain is an account of the state of left and radical politics in the UK, delivered through a study of recent anti-capitalist protests and movements. The book is a collaborative project involving writers from various universities in the UK and recent participants in anti-capitalist actions."--BOOK JACKET.

Charlotte Wilson: Anarchist Essays.

Charlotte Wilson. Nicholas Walter (ed)

Charlotte Wilson was the principal founder of Freedom Press, and the first editor of the anarchist newspaper Freedom, in 1886. She had been writing about anarchism in the socialist press since 1884, and like the work of her better-known contemporary Peter Kropotkin, whom she invited to England to join the Freedom group, her anarchist writings are scholarly, original, thoughtful and clear. 11 short essays, together with historical and biographical notes by Nicolas Walter.