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The Radical Jewish Tradition
$35.00 incl GSTThe claim of Israel and its apologists to represent Jews everywhere, the growth of the antisemitic far right, and the approach of the left to the Jewish question, are central issues today. A knowledge of the role of Jews in the past aids understanding of these debates. This book recovers some of that long-neglected history.
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The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx
$22.00 incl GSTBy Alex Callinicos
Karl Marx is one of the few people who have fundamentally changed the way we see the world. His ideas have always been controversial, misunderstood, attacked and even dismissed.
The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx rescues the revolutionary tradition of Marx and demonstrates conclusively the relevance of his ideas for everyone who wants to end poverty, oppression, climate change and war and see humanity progress.
New edition with a new Introduction and an updated guide to further reading.
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Transgender resistance
$24.00 incl GSTTransgender Resistance: Socialism And The Fight For Trans Liberation
By Laura MilesTrans rights and trans lives have come under increasingly vicious ideological attack in recent times, from the ‘bathroom wars’ and Donald trump’s anti-trans edicts in the United States, to attacks on the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act in Britain.
Transgender Resistance brings together key strands of opposition to these attacks – on the streets, in communities, in workplaces and in unions. It addresses the roots of transphobia and the history of gender transgression.
It highlights trans peoples’ fight for the freedom to live authentic lives and explains why that fight deserves unconditional solidarity in all sections of the left.
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Zombie Capitalism
$30.00 incl GSTGlobal Crisis and the Relevance of Marx
By Chris Harman
We’ve been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of September–October 2008, leading one apologist for the system, Willem Buiter, to write of “the end of capitalism as we knew it.”
As the crisis unfolded, the world witnessed the way in which the runaway speculation of the “shadow” banking system wreaked havoc on world markets, leaving real human devastation in its wake. Faced with the financial crisis, some economic commentators began to talk of “zombie banks”–financial institutions that were in an “undead state” and incapable of fulfilling any positive function but a threat to everything else. What they do not realize is that twenty-first century capitalism as a whole is a zombie system, seemingly dead when it comes to achieving human goals.
First published 2009.
