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RECENT PUBLICATIONS (in our bookshop)
‘A fascinating exploration of the complexity and diversity of contemporary suburban life. In challenging our view of the suburbs this book challenges our view of England – and in so doing disrupts mainstream political orthodoxy.’ Jon Cruddas 'Reading Gramsci has fertilised our political imagination, transformed our way of thinking, our style of thought, our whole political project.' Stuart Hall Combining personal and political history, analysis and autobiography, anecdote and argument, the contributors consider the consequences of the CP's dissolution for British political and intellectual life Contributors: David Bennett, Geoff Boucher, Claire Colebrook, Paul Crosthwaite, Karl Figlio, Bruce Fink, Stephen Frosh, Jean-Joseph Goux, Campbell Jones, Viktor Mazin, Manya Steinkoler, Matthew Sharpe, Bernard Stiegler and Tan Waelchli 'More than ever now...we need the sanity and the calm informative voice of walkers like Bob Gilbert...it's an inspiration: open your eyes, see what is there and not what you are told is there.' Iain Sinclair

 

JOURNALS CURRENT ISSUES (subscribe)
Soundings offers committed, informed and thoughtful writing on a wide range of issues within contemporary politics and culture New Formations brings new and challenging perspectives of cultural analysis to bear on the cutting edge of politics. Anarchist Studies is an inter-disciplinary journal of scholarly research into the theory and history of anarchism Renewal is a quarterly journal of social democracy, committed to modernisation, but keen to open discussion about the forms it might take Twentieth Century Communism provides an international forum for the latest research on the subject and an entry point into key developments and debates not immediately accessible to English-language historians

 

ONLINE BOOKS (free to download)
'politics through the prism of generation, through which can be discerned a first glimmer of a post-neoliberal consensus' Contributors include Anthony Barnett, Maurice Glasman, Su Maddock, Penny Shepherd, Graham Smith, Jonathan Michie, Stuart White Key Soundings essays on the crisis of the neoliberal regime Contributors: John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin The contributions to this short ebook challenge the way both Labour and the Coalition governments have designed and implemented welfare reforms Contributors include Shiraz Ahmad, Clare Coatman, Rowenna Davis, Jeremy Gilbert, Ben Mann, Laurie Penny

 

FORTHCOMING BOOKS (more. . . )
On the Wrong Side of the Track draws on insights from the human sciences to challenge the arguments of Olympophiles for whom the Games can do no wrong as well as Olympophobes for whom they can do no right The memories of that summer of sport will remain with us forever, but what did those four weeks tell us about ourselves, our society's values and its possibilities? he third and final volume of Kevin Morgan's widely acclaimed series Bolshevism and the British Left centres around the figure of Alf Purcell (1872-1935), who between the wars was one of the leading personalities in the British and international labour movement Combining historical analysis with personal experience and political theory, Salveson’s research suggests an alternative ownership system for the rail networks and a possible future for Britain’s transport system Colin Ward was one of the most significant thinkers and activists of the British anarchist movement in the twentieth century. He was a prolific journalist and had a historic and ongoing influence on political thought, most notably through his works on urban life, housing, squatters, children and criminology. Bringing together a range of historians, anthropologists and political theorists, this volume celebrates and analyses the influence of this uniquely approachable and creative form of anarchism