No radical list would be complete without Chomsky who has been writing primarily with regard to U.S. foreign policy for over 40 years!

Paul Foot kept his best to last in this examination of Democracy in Britain, sadly and strangely out of print already and expensive 2nd hand. Check out your library.

Mike Davis writes well, with humour and with force. A geographer by trade but well able to deal with a wide range of politcal and cultural issues.

Robert Fisk is Britains number one foreign correspondent of the last thirty years - this book and The War For Civilization are unmissable pieces of reportage.

Tariq Ali's prolific output is always worth reading - this book in particular - for the breadth of knowledge and the surgical strikes of his ample wit.

Greg Grandins writing on Latin America is well worth a look, this book in particular draws the links between the U.S. policies in Latin America in the 80's and Iraq post invasion with great skill.

Australias finest export - John Pilger with over 40 years of reporting from trouble spots around the world covering the human side aswell as the political machinations behind the stories.

Cooks writing on the situation in the Middle East, in particular the Palestine/Israel conflict is well informed, analytical and essential for a serious understanding of the region.

Nick Davies book on the Media, and his earlier book Dark Heart get under the skin of two different aspects of UK society in an equally powerful way.

Adam Hoschild books on the Belgian Congo and on the abolition of slavery are exemplary pieces of historical writing with a understated radical edge.

Milan Rai writes well, eloquently - this book is the best writing on the London bombings and along with his two books on Iraq are well recommended reading.

Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeanos classic history of Latin America reads like no other history. His other writing fact and fiction are also of a high and unique quality.