![]() | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £2.69 the most poetic depiction of humanity under capitalism
|
![]() | The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Penguin History) by C.L.R. James
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £9.65 discover who realy began the destruction of colonial slavery.
|
![]() | The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics) by Erich Fromm
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £9.63 why should we fight for human emancipation?Why not accept the slumbered half-life of domination? Fromm shows why freedom is inherantly better than domination and why only the workers can understand
|
![]() | War and an Irish Town (Pluto Classic) by Eamonn McCann
Buy new: £12.72 / Used from: £20.87 McCann's down to earth style and sharp intellect make this both enjoyable and profound. a unique view of troubles by a man uninterested in its petit nationalism
|
![]() | The Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.00 for those who believe that the US imperialism has shown the greatest inhumanity this is a grim reminder of Bristish attrocities and the surreptious black out of the Bristish press on the issue
|
![]() | The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and an Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy (Great Books in Philosophy) by Karl Marx
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £4.34 an interesting glimpse at the begining of this towering intellect.
|
![]() | Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £2.79 more naive than his latter works but an inspiring semipoetic starting point
|
![]() | Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.49 a first hand account of this tragedy as well as a narrative of ordinary people fighting back and true socialism in action
|
![]() | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman
Buy used from: £7.63 a rich emperically packed peice on how the media operates and who it speaks for
|
![]() | The Making of the English Working Class (Penguin History) by E.P. Thompson
Buy new: £14.00 / Used from: £8.00 shows how the working class were not just a creation of the market but played a role in creating their culture
|
![]() | Germinal (Penguin Classics) by Roger Pearson
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £2.90 a vivid depiction of 19th century mining. just ignore the cult of the leader and savour this deeply honest portrayal of an ever more apparent reality
|
![]() | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: £4.49 excellent human account of the 1930's depression an emotional account of the warmth and resiliance of ther human spirit
|
![]() | The American War: Vietnam 1960-1975 by Jonathan Neale
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £3.00 first hand testimony of what the reality of vietnam was for both the GI's, the peasants and the VC
|
![]() | Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £10.62 although it might feel that he is explaining why black is black remember that this work is the reason why we understand black to be black. persevere and you will be wiser
|
![]() | The Celtic Tiger?: The Myth of Social Partnership in Ireland by Kieran Allen
Buy used from: £8.99 shows what the neoliberal policies of the republic have meant for the majority of its citizens
|
![]() | Labour in Irish History by James Connolly
Buy used from: £5.25 also read complete works
|
![]() | Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-economy in the Sixteenth Century v. 1 by Immanuel Wallerstein
Buy used from: £35.00 read all three books, absalutly essential to our understanding of how capitalims developed.
|
![]() | Reading "Capital" by Louis Althusser
Buy new: £14.94 / Used from: £7.50 a brave critic of contemporary marxism if you can stomach the elitist structuralism
|
![]() | The Uses of Haiti by Paul Farmer
Buy used from: £35.95 a fine example of the consequences of US imperialism
|
![]() | Leviathan (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hobbes
Buy new: £3.19 / Used from: £3.00 When it was first published they burnt it in the streets . But over the generations the bourgeoisie had grown to hold it dear to thier hearts.If you want to know what they actually think this is key.
|
![]() | The Prince (Oxford World's Classics) by Niccolò Machiavelli
Buy new: £4.32 / Used from: £2.04 New Labour ministers often quote this as their favourite. Vile bougeoisie nastyness at its first inception
|
![]() | The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays by Edward Palmer Thompson
Buy used from: £29.50 a good analysis of althusser's failings
|
![]() | Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £3.65 a brilliant account of the tyrany of poverty
|
![]() | Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £7.73 / Used from: £1.40 demonstrates in chomskys clear emperical narrative style how the US is the worlds number number one criminal state and its contempt for anyone who dares challenge it
|
![]() | The Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Paine
Buy new: £2.70 / Used from: £3.70 populist and sometimes silly but interesting and relevent
|
Listmania!























