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"Isaac Deutscher's celebrated biographies of Stalin and Trotsky had always been conceived as a part of a larger project eventually culminating in a study of Lenin's life and politics. The three works would have constituted, he hoped, "a triptych of some artistic unity." But it was not to be; by the time of his sudden death in 1967, Deutscher had only managed to complete the first chapter, this book, which covers Lenin's family background, birth and early years in the backwater town of Simbirsk up to the execution of his brother, Alexander Ulyanov, a traumatic but formative event. Based on a lifetime of background research, including access to the closed section of Trotsky's archives, Lenin's Childhood gave, at the time of its posthumous publication, a novel interpretation of the earliest influences in Lenin's personality and thinking. Most of all, it offers a glimpse into a work unfinished, a work which would have striven save Lenin from fanatical anti-revolutionary condemnation, and, perhaps more importantly, from uncritical communist beatification"--

Lenin’s texts breaking with Eurocentrism in the socialist movement

A collection of letters, diaries and various writings depicting the Lenin beyond political commitments

A graphic exploration of action, resistance, and radicalism among eighteenth-century pirates

HOW GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM TURNS REFUGEES INTO CHEAP LABOR

A radical re-envisioning of the human condition

How Wall Street concocted a more volatile and dangerous capitalism

How Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connected

Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades?Questions of care, intimacy, education, meaningful work, and social engagement lie at the core of our ability to understand the world and its possibilities for human flourishing. In Lean on Me feminist thinker Lynne Segal goes in search of hope in her own life and in the world around her. She finds it entwined in our intimate commitments to each other and our shared collective endeavours. Segal calls this shared dependence ‘radical care’. In recounting from her own life the moments of motherhood, and of being on the front line of second-wave feminism, she draws upon lessons from more than half a century of engagement in Left feminist politics, with its underlying commitment to building a more egalitarian and nurturing world. The personal and the political combine in this rallying cry to transform radically how we approach education, motherhood, and our everyday vulnerabilities of disability, ageing and enhanced needs.Only by confronting head-on these different forms of interdependence and care can we change the way we think about the environment and learn to struggle – together – against impending climate catastrophe.

The feminists across Latin America, Africa, and Europe making self-managed abortion available to all - and the transnational movement they have built along the way

How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution

The little-known story of the Situationist International’s struggle against the automation of everyday life

A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF EMANCIPATION IN A COMMON WORLD

The Frankfurt School's own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By distinguishing between what is still and what is no longer alive in Critical Theory, these essays seek to demonstrate its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

The first ever collection of writing from the Brixton Black Women’s Group, one of the first and most important black radical organisations of the 1970s.

A memoir of transition, politics and memory

A myth-busting pamphlet that charts a course out of the current cost of living crisis

Bluebeard gets a feminist Gothic makeover in this subversive take on the famous French fairy tale—from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, and for fans of Jane Eyre

A "social" history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.

How Big Pharma failed to end a pandemic, and what it tells us about the global economy

The personal and political life of the iconic Russian poet Osip Mandelstam is graphically portrayed in this lavishly illustrated book

What if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable hourly wages?

Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided?

The operative term for modern politics is "populist"

Exploring the role of the incest prohibition in human societies

To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought aboiut a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after decades of acrimonius absence, set both women on edge, and before too long Johanna finds her mother stalking her thoughts, and Johanna starts stalking her mother's house.

The revolutionary life of an eighteenth-century dwarf activist who was among the first to fight against slavery and animal cruelty