Decent capitalism

a blueprint for reforming our economies

The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into international panic, with states struggling to rescue and bail out a globalised financial sector. Reform is promised by our leaders, but ...

Erasing Iraq

the human costs of carnage

Foreword by Dahr Jamail. For nearly two decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted war and aggression in Iraq. 'Collateral Carnage' shows in unparalleled detail the devastating human cost. Western governments and the mainstream media continue to ignore or play down the human costs ...

From fear to fraternity

a russian tale of crime, economy and modernity

The end of communism marked the re-emergence of a huge rise in organised crime across Russia and Eastern Europe. High-profile efforts to combat it have met with little success.Patricia Rawlinson argues that burgeoning crime rates result not only from the failures of communism but ...

The crimes of empire

rogue superpower and world domination

Foreword by Peter McLaren. Imperial Nations advance their own interests by exploiting other societies. To those on the receiving end this is obvious, while inside the empire, a powerful ideological system of justification tends to hide all but the worst excess. Carl Boggs argues, that ...

Georgia

Pawn in the New Great Game

The 2008 Ossetia War underlined the fact that Georgia is caught in a political struggle between East and West. Per Gahrton analyses American and Russian policy towards the country and provides a firsthand account of the Rose Revolution of 2003, its origin and aftermath. The ...

Financial alchemy in crisis

the great liquidity illusion

In July 2007, the combination of a seemingly unstoppable rise in house prices and bullish banks swimming in liquidity meant that almost anyone could get a mortgage in the UK or US. Little more than a month later the supply of credit dried up practically ...

Epic recession

prelude to global depression

The US is still in deep trouble. Banks are sustained by trillions of government dollars, unemployment is approaching 25 million and the long- term future of the economy is in doubt. In "Epic Recession", Jack Rasmus shows that we need a new way of understanding ...

Crack capitalism

"Crack Capitalism", argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of 'cracks' in the capitalist system. These cracks are ordinary moments or spaces of rebellion in which we assert a different type of doing. John Holloway's previous book ...

The Roman Empire

roots of imperialism

A millennium and a half after the end of the period of its unquestioned dominance, Rome remains a significant presence in western culture. This book explores what the empire meant to its subjects. The idea of Rome has long outlived the physical empire that gave ...

Anthropology´s World

life in a Twenty-First-Century discipline

In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work. Raising fundamental questions such as 'What is anthropology really about?', 'How does the public ...

Users guide to the crisis of civilization

and how to save it

It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilisation. This book argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system. Most accounts of our contemporary global crises such as climate ...

The political economy of Israel's occupation

repression beyond exploitation

The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories since 1967 has many important economic aspects that are often overlooked. In this highly original book, Shir Hever shows that understanding the economic dimensions of the occupation is crucial to unravelling the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Hever rejects the ...

The Cuban revolution in the 21st century

While most books and articles on Cuba seek to analyse the island's socialist experiment from the perspective of internal dynamics or international relations, this book attempts to understand the revolutionary process as part of a counter-current against neoliberal globalisation. Rather than presenting Cuba as ...

Europe's alliance with Israel

aiding the occupation

In carefully crafted official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, the EU's 27 governments have been engaged in a long process of accommodating Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories. Journalist David Cronin interrogates ...

Out of he frame

the struggle for acedemic freedom in Israel

Even before he wrote his bestselling book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, historian Ilan Pappe was a controversial figure in Israel. In Out of the Frame, he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a ...

Popular resistance in Palestine

a history of hope and empowerment

The Western media paint Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation as exclusively violent: armed resistance, suicide bombings, and rocket attacks. In reality these methods are the exception to what is a peaceful and creative resistance movement. In this fascinating book, Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh synthesises data from ...

The fair trade revolution

Ed. John Bowes; Foreword by Mary Robinson. Fair Trade has come a long way in the last 20 years. The Fair Trade Revolution celebrates the movement's achievement and takes up the challenge of improving more lives through fair dealing with producers. Fair Trade is ...

Ideologies in the Age of Extremes

liberalism, conservatism, communism, fascism 1914-91

This is a history of political ideologies during the period famously described by Eric Hobsbawn as 'The Age of Extremes' - from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ideologies in the Age of Extremes introduces the key ideologies of the age ...

Our way to fight

peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine

Our Way to Fight follows the dangerous lives of peace activists in Israel and Palestine. It explores the crises that stirred them to act, the risks they face, and the small victories that sustain them. Michael Riordon takes us to thousand year-old olive groves, besieged ...

In government we trust

market failure and the delusions of privatisation

Neoliberalism has had a huge impact on our lives over the past three decades, convincing governments in liberal democratic states to transform themselves and society according to the values and practices of the market.In "Government We Trust" examines these promises within the context of ...