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In writing from Chile Marc Cooper vividly evokes the tense atmosphere of the final days of the Allende government. When he revisits years later, he finds a sham of democracy but also spasms of prot...

A profound and personal journey to the heart of a shattered nation.In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever sinc...

In his new book, Michael Chanan examines the composer as a public figure in the light of Habermas's study of the transformation of the public sphere. Taking his cue from the German philosopher's re...

A second edition of this widely adopted study of working-class racism. The Wages of Whiteness provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In an a...

Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers.According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of ...

Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers.According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of ...

The artists and writers who left when the Nazis came to power were "the best of Germany"—Palmier weaves their diverse stories into a history of magisterial scope.In 1933 thousands of intellect...

A revolution is moving across Latin America…Since 1998, the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chávez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensu...

The award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger selects from his recent Guardian and New Statesman essays on power, its secrets and illusions, for this new collection. The New Rulers of the ...

Set in medieval Palermo, this is the fourth novel in Tariq Ali's celebrated Islam Quintet. The fourth novel in Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet is set in medieval Palermo, a Muslim city rivaling Baghdad a...

Consider the following: Over 1.7 million Americans live in prison, a three hundred percent increase since 1980; In some US cities, one third of all young Black men are in jail, on probation or awai...

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On 22 February 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delta. After severe fighting, the city was razed. More than two thousand people ...

Journalist Ken Silverstein delivers a broadside against the modern military-industrial complex in Private Warriors. In the post-cold-war world of rising defense budgets and arms proliferation, Silv...

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Pinter, le Carré, Eno and others demand an end to war."The justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed a highly dangerous body of weapons of mass destruction, some of ...

Christopher Hitchens doesn't mince words when it comes to Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state and national-security advisor: Kissinger deserves vigorous prosecution "for war crimes, fo...

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship bet...