Politics

The enduring relevance of Albert Einstein's classic essay. A contemporary look at Albert Einstein's classic call for socialism.

Bread for All explores and challenges our assumptions about what the welfare state was originally for, and the kinds of people who were involved in creating it. In doing so, it asks what the idea continues to mean for us today.

Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela's presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to finish his term of office and finished by the acclaimed South African writer, Mandla Langa.

This book challenges both the efficacy and wisdom of purely militarised responses to extremist movements, typified by the Global War on Terror.

A seminal work on the power of nonviolent action, this classic book outlines, in a systematic way, the elements involved in successfully opposing military dictatorships by passive means.

Marzena Pogorzaly made two trips to Havana. There, she walked the streets of Havana Vieja and El Centro, the old districts, trying to capture the melancholy beauty and decay of the city, and its inhabitants.

Ivan Dzuyba demonstrates how Stalin and his successors reversed Lenin's policies and reimposed in Ukraine the late-tsarist assimilatory policies of Russification.

Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism and other social issues?

Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience.

Five years after his tragic death, Travyon Martin’s name is still evoked every day. This book explores how one black child’s death on a dark, rainy street in a small Florida town became the match that lit a civil rights crusade.