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Now Is the Time of MonstersFacing the Predator, the latest volume from World War 3 illustrated, explores and exposes the predatory logic that underpins our economy, politics, justice system, and human relations. As agents of Capitalism seek to extract and exploit at every opportunity, artists and allies come together...
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The Big Heat: Earth on the BrinkThe world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction. The evidence is all around us: vast droughts that last decades, super-storms and floods that destroy cities, dwindling aquifers, vanishing glaciers,...
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The Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre: Poems, Essays, Sketches and Stories, 1885-1911"The most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced...a forceful personality, a brilliant mind, a fervent idealist, an unflinching fighter, a devoted and loyal comrade." --Emma Goldman "What can you say about a forgotten genius, a feminist foremother, Yiddish-speaking French immigrant's child, Free...
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Rebellion in PatagoniaAt the very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: "Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever." He demonstrates that principle in this moving and nuanced study of strikes led...
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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American SouthIn 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains. Over the next year, tactics escalated to include burning company property...
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Drug War CapitalismThough pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's Drug Wars--despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill prisons with poor people. They...
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Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a RebelNunzio Pernicone's biography uses Carlo Tresca's (1879-1943) storied life?as newspaper editor, labor agitator, anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and opponent of fascism?as a springboard to investigate Italian immigrant and radical communities in the United States. From his work on behalf of the Industrial Workers of...
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The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian JihadSo-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear that IS had a serious presence in Afghanistan...
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The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in SpainEvery year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona. Despite the carnival-like atmosphere that day, the people were...
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Faith, Unity, Discipline: The Inter-Service-Intelligence (Isi) of PakistanEstablished in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an under-developed and obscure agency. In 1979, the organisation's growing...
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind'Crowds, doubtless, are always unconscious, but this very unconsciousness is perhaps one of the secrets of their strength.' Gustave Le Bon gives insight into the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd, its sentiments and morality, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, opinions and much...
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Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water ConflictPower and Water in the Middle East provides a powerful new perspective on the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict. Adopting a new approach to understanding water conflict - hydro-hegemony - the author shows the conflict to be much more deeply entrenched than previously thought and reveals...
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From Recipients to DonorsFrom Recipients to Donors examines the emergence, or re-emergence, of a large number of nations as partners and donors in international development, from global powers such as Brazil, China and India, to Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia, to former socialist states such as...
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Race, Racism and Development: Interrogating History, Discourse and PracticeRace, Racism and Development places racism and constructions of race at the centre of an exploration of the dominant discourses, structures and practices of development. Combining insights from postcolonial and race critical theory with a political economy framework, it puts forward provocative theoretical analyses...
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The Rohingya Crisis: A People Facing ExtinctionWidely-known as the world's most persecuted minority group, the Rohingya in Myanmar are now facing extinction. Denied citizenship rights, denied their very ethnic identity, hundreds of thousands have fled Rakhine State in Myanmar over the border into Bangladesh, where they face squalid conditions. Many...
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Manchester: Making the Modern CityEvery town and city has its story, but few have a history that is essential to understanding how the modern world was made. Manchester was the first industrial city and arguably the first modern city. During the industrial revolution it became the centre of...
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History & Hope: The Alliance Party in Northern IrelandIn 1970, a group of people had what many commentators felt was a ludicrous dream, that politics in Northern Ireland "should not be dominated by division, but should be about co-operation, partnership and reconciliation." This dream was to become the Alliance Party of Northern...
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Attlee: A Life in PoliticsClement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including India - has been acclaimed by many as Britain's greatest twentieth-century Prime Minister. Yet somehow Attlee the man remains elusive and little known. How did...
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The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global ConditionThis major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present...
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Virtue and TerrorRobespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents. Yet today, the French Revolution is...
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