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If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author's upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British left, and life as a Jew among Muslims in Pakistan, Morocco, and Britain. Interwoven with this are the experiences of his grandfather's life in Jewish New York of the 1930s and 40s, his struggles with anti-Semitism and the twists and turns that led him from anti-fascism to militant Zionism. In the course of this deeply personal story, Marqusee refutes the claims of Israel and Zionism on Jewish loyalty and laments their impact on the Jewish diaspora. Rather, he argues for a richer, more multi-dimensional understanding of Jewish history and identity, and reclaims vital political and personal space for those castigated as ';self-haters' by the Jewish establishment.

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labour, a programme that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. In this definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced labour under Lord Leverhulme's rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of Congo. With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild, Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts is an important and urgently needed account of a laboratory of colonial exploitation.

An acclaimed history of the Holocaust.

Jacqueline Rose argues for the importance of sexual difference and fantasy as key concepts through which an interrogation of contemporary theory should be sustained.

Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences

Features the text in the great controversies over literature and art between thinkers who have become giants of 20th-century philosophy.

How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality?

How should we conceive the relations between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? This work addresses political and theoretical questions such as these. It combines intellectual history, political philosophy, and historical sociology to produce a distinctive portrait of an age of capital and war.

How should the left respond to electoral defeat, the leadership of Keir Starmer and a global crisis?

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What just happened and how did we get into this mess?

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politicsAs refugees drowned in the Mediterranean, the UK Government proudly announced that the aim of its immigration policy was to create a ';hostile environment' for undocumented immigrants. Despite study after study confirming that immigration is not damaging the economy or putting a strain on public services, migrants continue to be blamed for all the UK's ills. How did we get here? Maya Goodfellow offers a compelling answer and illuminates the dark underbelly of contemporary immigration policies. Talking to politicians, immigration lawyers, and immigrants themselves, Goodfellow examines how the media and successive governments have created and fuelled anti-immigration politics over the last fifty years. Ultimately, Hostile Environment reveals the distinct forms of racism and dehumanisation that result from these policies. Goodfellow's book is a crucial reminder of the human cost to treating immigration as a problem.

The austerity crisis and threat to Disability rights

Design, Politics, the Environment: a survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the anthropocene

A major intervention in media studies theorizes the politics and aesthetics of internet video

The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom

Presents an account of the American movie industry's fascination with the events of the Mexican Revolution. This book reveals how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how movies reinforced and justified both American expansionism and racial and social prejudice.

With characteristic honesty, Lennon discusses the break up of the Beatles, his favourite tracks with the group and how they were made, fellow musicians including the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, his attitude towards revolution and drugs and his relationship with Yoko Ono.

A set of reflections on British society and culture, this consists of a pair of essays published in "New Left Review" in the 1960s and two essays published in the late 1980s.

Peter Wollen is a master in the art of making unexpected connections, and this new book suggests many different ways of writing and thinking about art.

Groundbreaking exploration of the process of error and how we learn from it, in philosophy and history of science, from Plato to Adorno.

This text argues for the reconstruction of the discipline of legal analysis. Tying legal analysis to the study of democracy, it criticizes the dominant legal doctrine, suggesting a move towards a more democratic approach, and explores the way legal thought can influence debates about democracy.

In this trenchantly argued text, both students and the general public will find a clear statement of the arguments for the decriminalization of recreational drugs.

In 1995, in the first contested election in the history ofthe AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation's largest laborfederation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent ofAmerican private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage sincethe beginning of the twentieth century, and public employee collectivebargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Whathappened?Jane McAlevey is famousand notoriousin the American labormovement as the hard-charging organizer who racked up a string of victories ata time when union leaders said winning wasn't possible. Then she was bouncedfrom the movement, a victim of the high-level internecine warfare that has tornapart organized labor. In this engrossing and funny narrativethat reflects thepersonality of its charismatic, wisecracking authorMcAlevey tells the story ofa number of dramatic organizing and contract victories, and the unconventionalstrategies that helped achieve them. Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell)argues that labor can be revived, but only if the movement acknowledges itsmistakes and fully commits to deep organizing, participatory education, militancy,and an approach to workers and their communities that more resembles the campaignsof the 1930sin short, social movement unionism that involves raising workers'expectations (while raising hell).

"An extraordinary book about the most flamboyant French neo-Freudian of the twentieth century." The Times

Leading historians present a fascinating collection of essays on the eighteenth century legal system and those who passed through it.

Argues that property relations provide the key to unlocking the changing meaning of 'international' across the medieval, early modern and modern periods. This book shows that international politics remained under the control of dynastic and absolutist political elites that were rooted in feudal property regimes.

Surveys phenomena as diverse as the uniqueness of the European family, the development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, and the globalization of Chinese food. This book shows that the ethnocentricity of much of Western scholarship has distorted the comprehension of the East and of developments in Europe.