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  • The Political Marx
    Aijaz Ahmad / Vijay Prashad
    For a thinker whose revolutionary ideas have had such a decisive impact on the world, it is ironic that Marx’s own political writings remain so neglected. His political writings are often seen as texts written instrumentally to earn money, which he often desperately needed, or they are seen as beautiful texts with little connection to his economic studies and writings. But in f...
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    12,26 €

  • Communist Histories
    Vijay Prashad
    The contemporary world cannot be fully understood without the struggles of the Communists over the past century. Rooted in South Asia, Communist Histories has a global sweep, with essays examining Communist praxis from Bengal to Maharashtra, from Cuba to China. This volume - the first in a series - looks closely at the Communist international with an emphasis on how the core i...
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    24,11 €

  • The 1921 Rebellion in Malabar
    Nitheesh Narayanan / Vijay Prashad
    In 1921, there was a peasant rebellion in Malabar in present-day Kerala. The British colonialists attempted to give it a communal colour since most peasants were Muslim and the landlords Hindu. This narrative suited the landlords and served their interest. In our own times, forces of Hindutva have adopted the same communal narrative and are attempting to write the Malabar Rebel...
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    13,41 €

  • Washington Bullets
    Vijay Prashad
    Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair - a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and ass...
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    20,98 €

  • तख़्तापलट
    Vijay Prashad
    ’अपने हीरो एदुआर्दो गालेआनो की तरह विजय प्रशाद ने सच के बयान को भी मनभावन बना दिया है। यह काम आसान नहीं है पर वे उसे सहजता से कर ले जाते हैं।’ - रोजर वॉटर्स, पिंक फ्लॉयड/’इस किताब को पढ़ते हुए अमेरिकी दादागिरी द्वारा उम्मीदों पर कुठाराघात की अनगिनत घटनाएं दिमाग में कौंध जाती हैं।’ - इवो मोरालेस आइमा, बोलीविया के पूर्व राष्ट्रपति/तख़्तापलट मार्क्सवादी पत्रकारिता और इतिहास लेखन की...
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    16,70 €

  • Nothing Human is Alien to Me
    Vijay Prashad Aijaz Ahmad
    Two features characterize the entire body of Aijaz Ahmad’s work, which offers us a way to read the history of the present. First, his evident wide reading about the history and sociology of the world, which allows him to provide the necessary global context for his study and for our new times that remain tied to the contradictions of a longer history. Second, his grip on Marxis...
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    21,04 €

  • Washington Bullets
    Vijay Prashad
    Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair - a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and ass...
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    17,83 €

  • War Against the Planet
    Vijay Prashad
    On 11 September 2001, three commercial aircrafts became guided missiles and crashed into New York City’s World Trade Center and the US Military’s Pentagon. In response, the United States government (along with the United Kingdom) launched an assault on Afghanistan to root out the networks of the Saudi financier Osama bin Laden, and eventually the Taliban regime. This is the Fif...
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    14,56 €

  • Namaste Sharon
    Vijay Prashad
    In September 2003, Ariel Sharon became the first Israeli Prime Minister to step on Indian soil. Hindutva and Sharonism embraced each other, and these two Asian right-wing ideologies hoped to form some sort of entente against Islamic terrorism with the blessings of George W. Bush’s evangelical imperialism. Namaste Sharon, said India’s Prime Minister, but what does the rest of th...
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    14,53 €

  • Enron Blowout
    Vijay Prabir Prashad
    In one of the most spectacular bankruptcies of our times, the gas and energy giant Enron went bust in late 2001. Many thought that for India, this is the end of the Enron story, that we can simply get out of the disastrous Dabhol deal. They are wrong.Did Enron, touted as a leading foreign direct investment (FDI) case, bring any capital into the project at all? ...
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    14,54 €

  • Marx’s Capital
    Vijay Prashad
    There’s really no escaping it: if you want to understand capitalism, you simply have to read Karl Marx’s Capital. But this is easier said than done. Capital is Marx’s magnum opus - consisting of more than 2,000 pages, over three volumes. It is a masterpiece of analysis, of relentlessly methodical and logical reasoning. So is Capital only for the expert? No. Capital can be read ...
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    15,63 €

  • Lenin Selected Writings
    V.I. LENIN / V.ILenin / Vijay Prashad
    ’Struggling uncompromisingly with the reformists and all kinds of distortionists of Marxism, Lenin brought scientific socialism to a new stage. He enriched Marxism, the great ideological weapon of the proletariat, and greatly contributed to the formulation of the theory of proletarian dictatorship. He developed the Marxist principle on the worker-peasant alliance, the national ...
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    23,67 €

  • No Free Left
    Vijay Prashad
    Over the past twenty years, the Indian political climate has shifted decidedly to the Right - with the BJP and the Congress dragging India into a growth trajectory that squanders the hopes of working people. The old consensus on Indian socialism is threadbare, and socialist parties in disarray.The future of Indian communism is rooted in the popular hopes for a better tomorrow a...
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    23,61 €

  • Red October
    Vijay Prashad
    The first socialist state in history lasted only seventy years. This is a very small period of time in the scope of world history. Its achievements have been pilloried - its demise being the greatest argument against its achievements. But merely because it disappeared does not mean that it was without merit. It provides us with the assurance that a workers and peasants’ state c...
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    18,55 €

  • The East Was Read
    Vijay Prashad
    Across the Third World, people grew up reading inexpensive, beautifully-produced books from the Soviet Union - children’s books, classics of world literature, books on science and mathematics, and works of Marxist theory. The first half of The East Was Read is an homage to the lost world Soviet books. Wang Chaohua and Pankaj Mishra recall with fondness the meaning of these book...
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    15,45 €

  • Will the Flower Slip Through the Asphalt?
    Vijay Prashad
    Naomi Klein, delivering the Edward Said lecture, links the question of climate with the question of occupation (with Palestine as the focus). Klein points out that those who are ’othered’ will be the first victims of the climate catastrophe. This volume collects Naomi Klein’s superb essay, along with reactions from important writers who live across the globe. John Bellamy Foste...
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    14,45 €

  • MARX200
    John McDonnell / Vijay Prashad
    Marx200 examines the significance of Marxism for today’s world. Leading scholars and activists from different countries – including Cuba, India and the UK – show that  Marx’s ideas continue to provide us with the analysis we need to understand our world today in order to change it. The relevance of Marx’s contribution to political economy is discussed, as is Marxism and the ong...
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    24,75 €

  • Red Star Over the Third World
    Vijay Prashad
    From Cuba to Vietnam, from China to South Africa, the October Revolution inspired millions of people beyond the territory of Russia. The Revolution proved that the masses could not only overthrow autocratic governments, but also form an opposing government in their own image. The new idea that the working class and the peasantry could be allied, combined with the clear strength...
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    25,54 €

  • Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
    Vijay Prashad
    'Vijay Prashad has combined history, culture, and politics into a superbly researched and very clear work on the Arab Spring. . . . He has achieved a considerable feat, with a book that deserves to become essential reading, a canonical account of a world-historic chain of events.' ? The Hindu Mass action overthrew Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. The revolutionary w...
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    20,82 €

  • Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
    Prashad / Vijay Prashad
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    21,08 €