UPRISING
The October rebellion in Ecuador

Leonidas Iza, Andrés Tapia, and Andrés Madrid

Preface: Michael Löwy

UPRISING is a detailed description and analysis of the Indigenous-led uprising of October 2019 in Ecuador, written by three people deeply involved in the revolt. The lead author, Leonidas Iza, came to national prominence as one of the central leaders of the rebellion. On the final day of the paro, when the movement forced the government of Lenin Moreno to withdraw Decree 883 and accede to live televised talks with the leaders of Conaie, the main Indigenous umbrella organisation, it was Leonidas Iza who tore apart the arguments of the finance minister in front of the nation, giving him a master class in the implications of neoliberal economics and the government's deal with the IMF.

RRP: £19, €24, $28 (print)
RRP: £10.99, €15.99, $19.99 (e-book)

350 pages; 178×254 mm.
Includes tables and 40 photographs.

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THE WELL-DRESSED REVOLUTIONARY
The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the age of uprisings

Hall Greenland

Born in Alexandria in 1911, Michel Pablo became a leading figure in the Fourth International from its foundation in 1938. Throughout the 20th century, he was active in revolutions around the globe. His political work ranged from agitation among German troops in World War II, to supporting the Algerians in their fight for freedom, to gun-running for Che Guevara. He also drafted revolutionary legislation in Allende’s Chile and Ben Bella’s Algeria. Throughout his long and eventful life, Pablo fought for a society based on ‘generalised self-management’ or ‘direct democracy’. The Well-Dressed Revolutionary is a meticulously researched biography of an exciting international figure (and his partner, Elly Diovouniotis).

Paperback RRP: £18, €22, $US25
E-book RRP: £9.99, €14.99, $US17.99
380 pages; 156×234 mm.

Out in September 2023
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CAPITALIST CHINA
and
SOCIALIST REVOLUTION

Simon Hannah

RRP paperback : £5, €6, $7; RRP e-book: £4, €5, $6; 78 pages

The economic and political growth of China and its transformation into a capitalist world power is one of the defining features of the modern age. It has shifted economic relations and the balance of power. Hundreds of millions of workers in China – the world’s largest working-class population – hold the future of the world in their hands. What China is and how it is developing is not an academic matter. This book is a contribution to the debate on China.

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HOPE AND MARXISM
Selected Historical and Theoretical Essays
by Ernest Mandel

RRP: £15, €18, $20 (print); 306 pages

Hope and Marxism collects essays by Ernest Mandel exploring Marxist theory and history. Most of the texts are newly translated. These include a discussion of Rosa Luxemburg’s place in the German workers movement, the development of the bourgeois state, the roots of Nazi violence, and an essay on Marxism and ecology. The texts in this book demonstrate Mandel’s use of an open Marxism to investigate theoretical and historical problems.

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DANGEROUS LIAISONS
The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism

Cinzia Arruzza

An accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers’ movement and the women’s movement. The theoretical questions discussed include the origins of women’s oppression, domestic labour, dual systems theory, performativity and differentialism. The author writes passionately about the need to combine gender and class politics.

RRP £10, €13, $16

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ECOSOCIALISM
NOT
EXTINCTION
by Allan Todd

RRP: £5, €6, $7 (print); 88 pages

The planet is facing an existential crisis. An exit strategy from fossil energy and intensive animal agriculture is urgent. It must be based on a socially and economically just transition to renewables and a completely new relationship with the natural world. This book is an introduction to Ecosocialism and how to fight for it.

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MARXISTS AGAINST STALINISM
by Ernest Mandel

A debate with Chris Harman
Preface by Paul Le Blanc

RRP: £15, €18, $20 (print); 200 pages

As the USSR disintegrated in 1990 and 1991, the Socialist Workers Party and the Fourth International took different views of the impending privatizations. Marxists Against Stalinism brings together powerful contributions from Ernest Mandel and Chris Harman in the long-running debate on the class nature of the USSR. Paul Le Blanc provides an introduction that looks back at the debate 30 years on.

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UKRAINE: Voices of resistance and solidarity

A collection of recent writings by Ukrainians and socialists around the world

RRP: £10, €12, $14 (print); 168 pages

This book is a contribution to understanding what Ukrainians think, feel and need. Their voices are a call for solidarity, peace and progress. Above all, it is about the Ukrainian people deciding their future and an end to Russian imperialism.
Mick Antoniw, Member of the Welsh Parliament.

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STALINIST REALISM AND OPEN COMMUNISM
Malignant Mirror or Free Association

by Ian Parker

RRP: £6, €7.50, $8 (print); 98 pages

Capitalism as a global system of rule that tells us that there is no alternative, and this is accompanied by its terrible twin, ‘stalinist realism’ that works its way into ideas about political camps, bodies, identity and organisation. Ian Parker provides an analysis and an alternative, ‘open communism’ that is democratic and plural, and which must be built now.

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RADICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS
and Anti-Capitalist Action

by Ian Parker

RRP: £5, €6, $7 (print); 86 pages

This crisis-ridden world is having disastrous effects on the climate, on our bodies and on our internal worlds, on how we feel and try to respond, on how we panic and on how we act collectively. Psychoanalysis can be part of this collective political response. Ian Parker shows how personal struggle can be linked to political struggle so we confront misery in this world and find alternatives in anti-capitalist resistance.

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MIND FUCK

The Mass Psychology of Creeping Fascism
by Neil Faulkner

RRP: £6, €7.50, $8 (print); 136 pages

Nationalism, racism, misogyny, and irrationalism is sweeping the world. The authoritarian right and new forms of fascism are a clear danger. Neoliberal capitalism has torn society apart. Alienation has reached an unprecedented level. In this little book, Neil Faulkner draws on Marxist-Freudian theory to provide an updated analysis of the mass psychology of fascism, and to argue for a progressive counter-offensive based on love, labour, and reason.

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ALIENATION, SPECTACLE & REVOLUTION

A critical Marxist essay
by Neil Faulkner

RRP: £5, €7, $8 (print); 136 pages

The fast-accelerating world crisis is driving us towards barbarism and extinction. The capitalist system means ecological and social collapse. Mainstream politics, embedded in the system, has been reduced to irrelevance. Revolution has become an existential imperative. This book offers critical Marxist thinking about the nature of the crisis and what must be done to turn mass protest into the revolutionary transformation on which our survival depends.

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INTRODUCTION TO MARXIST THEORY

Selected writings
by Ernest Mandel

RRP: £15, €18, $20 (print); 300 pages.

Introduction to Marxist Theory contains a selection of essays on key subjects Mandel worked on: the theory of the state, imperialism, reformism, and bureaucracy. “The Leninist Theory of Organisation” is an influential essay on class consciousness and organisation. The “Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory” was widely used as a textbook in classes on Marxist economics.

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THE PARIS COMMUNE
An ode to emancipation

by Daniel Bensaïd, Olivier Besancenot, Sandra Bloodworth, Judy Cox, Penelope Duggan, Mathilde Larrère, Michael Löwy, Kay Mann, Eric Toussaint.

RRP: £12, €15, $18 (print)

The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the first working class attempts at the social emancipation of the oppressed and exploited. Between 18 March and 29 May 1871, the popular classes succeeded for a while in breaking their chains. It was a short period when people could take control of their lives. The Paris Commune is an inspiration today. The memory of the past and its struggles strengthens the fight for the utopia of the future.

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SYSTEM CRASH
An Activist Guide to Making Revolution

By Neil Faulkner, Phil Hearse, Rowan Fortune, Simon Hannah, and Nina Fortune

RRP: £10, €12, $14 (print)

It is the greatest crisis in human history. We are hurtling towards an abyss. The system is terminally diseased. Pandemic, climate crisis, endless war, mega-slums, police repression, creeping fascism, economic stagnation: these shape our world. On one side, grotesque greed and rampaging corporate power. On the other, poverty, oppression, and despair. Capitalism came into the world, Marx wrote, ‘dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt’. Now, the ageing system is putrescent and gangrenous. Revolution – ending the rule of capital and the state – has become an existential necessity. This book is a call to arms.

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FIGHT THE FIRE
Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs

by Jonathan Neale

RRP: £15, €18, $20 (print)

Many of the books concentrate on the politics of green new deals. This one concentrates on the nuts and bolts of the climate jobs that would be part of any new deal. The aim is to persuade the readers that climate jobs could stop climate breakdown, and to make that prospect vivid, detailed and compelling. There is also a political thread running through the book, which is that we have to make the necessary changes to move beyond the constraints of the market.

Jonathan Neale is a professional writer. His books include A People’s History of the Vietnam War (The New Press, 2003); What’s Wrong with America (Vision, 2004), Stop Global Warming: Change the World (Bookmarks, 2008). He One Million Climate Jobs and wrote a report on climate jobs and transport for the European Transport Workers Federation. From 2004 to 2011 Jonathan was international secretary of Campaign Against Climate Change Britain.

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WHY WE NEED ANTICAPITALIST RESISTANCE

by Simon Hannah

RRP: £4, €5, $6 (print)
60 pages; 178x108mm.

The world is facing an unprecedented crisis with the pandemic, climate disaster, and an economic crash. Extreme inequality is out of control. Resistance is happening on every continent against the capitalist system.  The vision of Karl Marx for a new society is still relevant today. Simon Hannah gives an outline of Marxism and how it can help us in the fight to free people from exploitation and save the planet.

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