New English language Books

Dead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of their generation. Their debut full-length, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables , in particular, is regularly voted among the top albums in the genre. Fresh...

Exploding as politically revolutionary at the heart of the Paris 1968 uprisings, the Situationist International has proved a tenaciously compelling radical movement in terms of asthetics and political theory. This crucially important...

Can we find alternatives to the failed radical projects of the twentieth-century? What are the possible forms of struggle today? How do we fight back against the misery of our crisis-ridden present? "Communization" is the spectre of the...

Kristian Williams is the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America , American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination , Confrontations: Selected Journalism , and Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy . Lara...

First published by the IS Group (90s forerunners of the AMM & Unkant) in 1997, More Years for the Locust is a history of the origins of the SWP written by Jim Higgins, a leading member of the Socialist Review Group and International...

Argumentative, contentious and thought-provoking, these collected articles invite us to critically reconnect as a diaspora to the IS tradition – not only of Cliff or Harman, but also Hallas, Kidron, Sedgwick, MacIntyre, Harris, Widgery,...

Of all living composers, Dumitrescu is the one who has most exploded sound. Dumitrescu’s work is a negation, from the depths, of everything in contemporary music symptomatic of distraction, of banalisation, and of a radical loss of...

Daphne Lawless : Like many a missive from that Better-World-That-Exists-Alongside-This-One, AZMUD 's very varied title is a literal route in - a Hebrew (or Arabic?) style triliteral root in (' ZM'D ), which the meaning is condensed in...

This book of essays is a shocking read, but the shocks arrive from the history itself, not sensationalist writing. We’ve been told that the Second World War was a war against evil waged by the goodhearted and true. The spectre of Hitler...

Those elements or key events in Labour movement history that have not conformed to the theory of the ineluctable evolution of the movement into a party committed to peaceful constitutional reform have been either written out of history...

Philosophy and art with the imagination to actually change the world: this is the unfinished dream of history and the heart of the revolutionary modernism of the early 20th century, which globalised war and exploitation managed...

Robert Dellar’s reminiscences impart a strange, unwholesome joy, like smoking a cig dipped in popper juice. The only response to the atrocious farce of modern life has to be this savage laughter. Out to Lunch In this incendiary slice of...