Socialism & Left-of-centre Democratic Ideologies

Almost 80 years after Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International, there are now Trotskyist organizations in 57 countries, including most of West...

Since the onset of global crisis in recent years, academics and economic theorists from various political and cultural backgrounds have been drawn ...

This volume constitutes both an attack on modern left wing literary theory - the main product of the last Marxist renaissance in the past thirty ye...

Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explain...

Blair’s community is an exciting and timely book which challenges the accepted wisdom about the role of communitarian thought in the development of...

Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transfo...

First published in 1948, this book gives a full account of the development of the British Labour Party from its emergence as a national influence i...

In its broadest sense, this book is concerned with the attempt by workers in Britain during the period 1760–1871 to engage in collective action in ...

Labour's War is the first scholarly history of the Labour Party during the Second World War, and offers a fresh look at British politics during the...

First published in 1973. In this study, the author adopts a historical approach, tracing the evolution of socialist thinking during the past centur...

First published in 1941. This purpose of this history of the earlier phases of the political Labour movement was due to the author’s belief that th...

This book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today, w...

First published in 1982. To study Tillett’s career is to study the modern British labour movement in its formative stages. His rhetoric and activit...

Within many societies across the world, new social and political movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary structures of ...

First published in 1988. The years 1945-51 were crucial to the Labour Party and the Left in Britain. This elegantly written book traces the gradual...

The black insurgence movement and experiments in Caribbean socialism, following the work of the committed revolutionary CLR James, have resounding ...

In this age of overlapping and mutually reinforcing deep global crises (financial convulsions, global warming, mass migrations, militarism, inequal...

Radical political economy is built upon the formal analysis of neoclassical economics and the tradition of Marxian/radical analysis. The essays pre...

The black insurgence movement and experiments in Caribbean socialism, following the work of the committed revolutionary CLR James, have resounding ...

First published in 1923. This autobiographical study by Francis William Soutter, an English Radical activist and an advocate for independent labour...

Moving past the conflation of state socialism with all socialist projects, this book opens up avenues for addressing socialist projects rooted in d...

Written two years after the commencement of the Second World War, the chapters in this book succinctly put forward the case for reorganizing the fo...

What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is one o...

Robert Owen (1771-1858) was the founder of British socialism, and one of the most influential reformers in Britain and America in the first half of...