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Soundings 45 Eye of the storm
Contributors: Vic Anderson, Nick Couldry, Sally Davison, Jeremy Gilbert, Tamra Gilbertson, Stuart Hall, Gerry Hassan, David Hesmondhalgh, George Irvin, Ruth Levitas, Doreen Massey, Kate Nash, Oscar Reyes, Michael Rustin, Jonathan Rutherford, Richard Thompson, Vron Ware, Duncan Weldon, Daniel Whittall, L. Randall Wray. More about Soundings

Labour's Future
Jonathan Rutherford and Alan Lockey (eds)
Free to view EBOOK
Contributors: Philip Collins, Sally Davison, Jeremy Gilbert, Stuart Hall, David Lammy, Neal Lawson, Doreen Massey, Anthony Painter, James Purnell, Michael Rustin, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears, Allegra Stratton, Heather Wakefield, Stuart White

newformations 69 Imperial Ecologies

Guest editor: Ashley Dawson
Contributions on 'political ecology' from: Crystal Bartolovich, George Caffentzis, Ben Dibley, Peter Hitchcock, Brett Neilson, Leerom Medovoi, Rob Nixon, Sian Sullivan, Morten Tønnessen
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Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War Jim Jump (Editor)
Leading Spanish and British historians examine key themes of the Spanish Civil War. Contributors: Richard Baxell, Julián Casanova, Helen Graham, Angela Jackson, Enrique Moradiellos, Paul Preston, Francisco J Romero Salvadó and Ángel Viñas Published in association with the IBMT and in collaboration with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.

Antifascistas: British and Irish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War Richard Baxell, Angela Jackson, Jim Jump
This illustrated book tells the story of the volunteers from the British Isles who joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War - in words and pictures. With more than 100 illustrations, many in colour Published in association with the IBMT and in collaboration with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.

ebook cover Radical Future: Politics for the next generation
Edited by Ben Little Free to view EBOOK
A group of young activists, journalists and academics write on the issues faced by their generation.
Contributors: Shiraz Ahmad, Joanna Allan, Sarah Baker, Clare Coatman, Kate Crawford, Rowenna Davis, Joss Garman, Jeremy Gilbert, Richard George, James Graham, Noel Hatch, Ben Little, Ben Mann, John Miers, Laurie Penny, Richard Pring, Arjun Singh-Muchélle, Elizabeth Somerville, Ejos Ubiribo.

After the Crash: re-inventing the left in Britain
Edited by Richard S. Grayson and Jonathan Rutherford
Free to view EBOOK
Conversation between social democrats, liberals, greens and civic nationalists to find better solutions to the problems we face than are currently on offer from the mainstream of the major political parties. Contributors: Jon Cruddas, Caroline Lucas, Steve Webb, Neal Lawson, Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey, Richard S. Grayson, Jonathan Rutherford, Alan Finlayson, Jonathon Porritt, Leanne Wood, Richard Thomson, Stuart White.

Left Out: Alternative Policies for a Left Opposition Today
Doug Bain, Peter Lawrence, Andy Pearmain, Michael Prior and Willie Thompson
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Thoughts on the left after the election - an attempt to understand where and why the left has gone wrong.

Renewal cover Renewal 18.1/2
The main themes of this issue are the Cameron agenda, and Work, recognition and the market. Contributors: Jonathan Seglow, Ruth Yeoman, John O'Neill, Catherine Hakim, Diane Perrons, Jonathan Aldred, Rosie Cox, Danny Dorling, Tim Bale, Howard Reed, Andrew Jackson, Ruth Lister, Fran Bennett, Tim Horton, Ollie Haydon-Mulligan, David Coates, Selina Chen, Henning Meyer, Karl-Heinz Spiegel, Nicola Smith, Anna-Helga Horrox, Richard Garside, Richard Weight.

The future of social democracy
Jon Cruddas MP Free to view EBOOK
Published by Compass in association with Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Labour Party. Based on two lectures from September 2009, this pamphlet puts forward a viable political alternative to market capitalism. The lectures invite us to look once again at Labour’s traditions and collectively debate how we might renew and develop them.

Anarchist Studies 18.1 Spring 2010

Articles include Guido Giacomo Preparata on money (part 2); Francis Dupuis-Déri on the politics of affinity groups; Laurence Davis on social anarchism and lifestyle anarchism and Roger Farr on Hugo Ball.

Arthur Horner: A Political Biography
Volume 1 1894-1944, Volume 2 1944-1968
Nina Fishman (1946-2009)
Two-volume biography of miners' leader Arthur Horner 'Nina Fishman's book is, at last, a worthy record of the significant contributions to the working class and the history of twentieth century Britain by a very remarkable man.' Eric Hobsbawm

Twentieth Century Communism
A journal of international history
Twentieth Century Communism is a new international forum for research and discussion of communist history.
Issue 2, now out, is on communism and political violence and features articles on France, Italy, '1968', Kashmir and Baader Meinhof.

Breaking Up Britain
Mark Perryman (editor)
A dialogue on devolution to mark the tenth anniversary of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. 'This brilliant book helps us understand what Scots, Welsh, Irish and English neighbours freed from an unhappy Union might look like.' Billy Bragg
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Feelbad Britain: how to make it better
Pat Devine, Andrew Pearmain and David Purdy (editors)
Feelbad Britain puts forward a framework for understanding contemporary politics and considers what is to be done to revitalise the British left, challenge neoliberal hegemony and develop a political project aimed at creating a greener, fairer, happier, more democratic and less divided Britain.
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The crash - a view from the left (free to view online book)
Edited by Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford
Click here for critical alternatives to dominant economic thinking
Contributors: Jon Cruddas, Clive Dilnot, Bryan Gould, John Grahl, Colin Hines, Adam Leaver, Toby Lloyd, Lindsay Mackie, Robin Maynard, Richard Murphy, Carlota Perez, Ann Pettifor, Michael Prior, Jonathan Rutherford, Göran Therborn.

ebook cover Is the future Conservative?
(Free to view online book)
Edited by Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford
Critical analysis of New Conservative thinking by writers from the left and right - including Neal Lawson, Oliver Letwin MP, Tony Juniper, John Harris and Phillip Blond.

Agreement!
The state, conflict and change in Northern Ireland
Beatrix Campbell
Published ten years after the Good Friday Agreement, this book is about the people, ideas and movements that created it. But it is also about its limits; how the Agreement's promise was frequently betrayed. Read introduction

Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War
Edited by Jim Fyrth with Sally Alexander
Perhaps more than any other war in the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War was seen as a 'writers' war' - names such as Hemingway and Orwell spring to mind. But the women who went to Spain and wrote about it have often been forgotten. This anthology is part of efforts to redress the balance.

Ideology, Absolutism and the English Revolution
David Parker
Offers a glimpse into some of the early debates inside the History Group of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whose members included Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton and Eric Hobsbawm. This book focuses on the debates of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century section and their work on ideology and absolutism.

Building a Citizen Society
Stuart White and Daniel Leighton
'The ideals of civic republicanism have been undergoing a renaissance in scholarly circles for many years. This volume brings those ideas to bear on a range of contemporary issues … lucid, radical and relevant.' Richard Reeves
'a major contribution to neorepublican democratic theory' Philip Pettit

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