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The New Economy never arrived, instead we have regressed towards darker times. Have we already entered the age of techno-feudalism? Inequality, stagnant productivity, endemic instability: The new economy of the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity fuelled by technology and innovation. It didn't deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but this does not mean that capitalism has become civilized or provided for the 99%. In the hands of private corporations, the digitalization of the world drives us toward an even darker future. The return of monopolies, the dependence of subject-citizens on platforms, the blurring of the distinction between the economic and the political all epitomize a systemic mutation. Information and data networks push the economy in the direction of the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and domination of the many by the few. Techno-feudalism offers a fresh genealogy of the Silicon Valley consensus and its aporias. It disentangles the principles of an emerging system-wide rationale. Large firms compete in cyberspace to gain control over data sources. In this new economic order, capital is moving away from production to focus on predation. Acclaimed political economist Cédric Durand's devastating critique of our current Silicon Valley dominated economy points the way toward the systemic changes we need to build a more just society.

What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation.

Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher, collected for the first time

A brilliant and lucid guide to this most elusive of concepts.

How to build a fairer, more neuro-inclusive society

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

a deeply personal exploration into family, empire, art and identity - from the author of Potential History

The secret history of how the CIA used American unions to undermine working class militancy at home and abroad during the Cold War.

A portrait of one of the most vital, and brilliant, journalists and writers of his generation.

The inside story of the video games industry and how they can be used to make a better world

Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait, embarking on a thirty-year career that would see his cartoons published daily in newspapers from Cairo to Beirut, London to Paris. Resolutely independent and unaligned to any political party, Naji al-Ali strove to speak to and for the ordinary Arab people; the pointed satire of his stark, symbolic cartoons brought him widespread renown. Through his most celebrated creation, the witness-child Handala, al-Ali criticized the brutality of Israeli occupation, the venality and corruption of the regimes in the region, and the suffering of the Palestinian people, earning him many powerful enemies and the soubriquet "the Palestinian Malcolm X." For the first time in book form, A Child in Palestine presents the work of one of the Arab world's greatest cartoonists, revered throughout the region for his outspokenness, honesty and humanity. "That was when the character Handala was born. The young, barefoot Handala was a symbol of my childhood. He was the age I was when I had left Palestine and, in a sense, I am still that age today and I feel that I can recall and sense every bush, every stone, every house and every tree I passed when I was a child in Palestine. The character of Handala was a sort of icon that protected my soul from falling whenever I felt sluggish or I was ignoring my duty. That child was like a splash of fresh water on my forehead, bringing me to attention and keeping me from error and loss. He was the arrow of the compass, pointing steadily towards Palestine. Not just Palestine in geographical terms, but Palestine in its humanitarian sense--the symbol of a just cause, whether it is located in Egypt, Vietnam or South Africa."--Naji al-Ali, in conversation with Radwa Ashour

Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided?

A groundbreaking but timeless early work from one of the world's most heralded novelists.

How the Nakba was marked not just by forced expulsions but also widespread looting of Palestinian property

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech

The first – and long-awaited – major biography of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The highly-acclaimed history of the ground-breaking Situationist movement, in one volume for the first time

A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure.

All hail the new masters of Capitalism: How asset managers acquired the world

NUCLEAR POWER WILL SLOW OUR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCREASE THE RISK OF WEAPONS PROLIFERATION AND CATASTROPHE

The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activist

AN OUTSIDER’S GUIDE TO MODERN PARIS

AN URGENT AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CATASTROPHE