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Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley takes on the world's most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are a result of our capitalist system
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Slavoj Zizek
The 'most dangerous philosopher in the West' returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament
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Nick Bryant
The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found…
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Arundhati Roy
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight…
Darrin McMahon
A magisterial exploration of why equality matters and why we continue to reimagine it, Equality offers all the tools to rethink equality anew for our own age.
Marcel Dirsus
Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end?
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Naomi Klein
A wild ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine
Thomas Piketty
An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality.
Anne Applebaum
One of the world's most celebrated historians and journalists uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world
Don Watson
Don Watson offers a report from the United States that catches the madness and theatre of an election like no other.
Timothy Snyder
An urgent and masterly exploration of freedom - by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny
Rachel Maddow
Journalist Rachel Maddow's runaway #1 bestseller, with over 400,000 copies sold, now available in the UK ahead of the 2024 US election. This is the startling story of the fascist…
George Orwell
Brilliant essays from Orwell’s political writing during World War II, released to coincide with Orwell Day on the 21st of January.
Fascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell’s…
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MB Rasmussen
What if fascism didn’t disappear at the end of WW II with the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini? Even more troubling, what if fascism can no longer be confined to…
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Laurie Penny
‘Captivating, emphatic and deeply inspiring, Sexual Revolution lifted me greatly by envisioning the possibilities of our moment’ V (formerly Eve Ensler)
‘Brilliant; vital; revolutionary’ Kate Manne _________________
This is a…
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Alberto Toscano
In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we name, map and respond to…
Mark Bray
A detailed survey of the full history of anti-fascism to the present day-offering insight into the growing but little-understood resistance fighting back against fascism in all its guises.
Umberto Eco
But who are ‘they’? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco’s iconic essay ‘Ur-Fascism’, which…
Federico Finchelstein
Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.
With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation…
