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  • Cover image of book Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
    Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion - by Tansy E. Hoskins

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745346618 | ISBN 10: 0745346618

    *Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*  Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism and climate crisis. In The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Ta ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism by Adrienne Buller
    The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism - by Adrienne Buller

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526162632 | ISBN 10: 1526162636

    Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing t ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Has Always Been A War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer by Lori Fox
    This Has Always Been A War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer - by Lori Fox

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781551528779 | ISBN 10: 1551528770

    A powerful, personal critique of capitalist patriarchy as seen through the eyes of a queer radical.   Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender, environment ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? by Brett Christophers
    Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? - by Brett Christophers

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788739757 | ISBN 10: 1788739752

    How did Britain’s economy become a bastion of inequality?   In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure, winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, provides a forensic examination of twenty-first-century capitalism. Bret ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan
    Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism - by Amelia Horgan

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745340913 | ISBN 10: 0745340911

    'Work hard, get paid.'   It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us.   For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World by Kehinde Andrews
    The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World - by Kehinde Andrews

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241437445 | ISBN 10: 024143744x

    The New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European Empires, outlining the deliberate terror and suffering wrought during every stage of the expansion, and destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow
    How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - by Cory Doctorow

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781736205907 | ISBN 10: 1736205900

    How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism was first published online in August, where it was an instant hit with readers, scholars, and critics alike.   For years now, we've been hearing about the ills of surveillance capitalism - the business o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone
    Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance - by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241482612 | ISBN 10: 0241482615

    An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'.   Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
    Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto - by Aaron Bastani

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786632630 | ISBN 10: 1786632632

    A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism.  In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin by Silvia Frederici
    Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin - by Silvia Frederici

    £15.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629637068 | ISBN 10: 1629637068

    More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements — all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a v ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) by Danny Caine
    How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) - by Danny Caine

    £3.50      (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781621065265 | ISBN 10: 162106526x

    When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is literally the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakeley
    Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation - by Grace Blakeley

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912248377 | ISBN 10: 1912248379

    For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.   In the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices and cheap consumer goods propped up living standards ... more

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  • Cover image of book Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
    Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784705756 | ISBN 10: 1784705756

    Yanis Varoufakis, the bestselling author of Adults in the Room, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world.  Why is there so much inequality? In this intimate and accessible bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
    The Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis - by George Monbiot

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786632890 | ISBN 10: 1786632896

    Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. But we cannot replace it without a positive vision, one that reengages people in politics and l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? by Peter Dauvergne
    Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? - by Peter Dauvergne

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509524013 | ISBN 10: 1509524010

    Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Non-profit organizations rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google & Amazon Have Cornered Culture&Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
    Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google & Amazon Have Cornered Culture&Undermined Democracy - by Jonathan Taplin

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509847709 | ISBN 10: 1509847707

    LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD   Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for ... more

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  • Cover image of book And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
    And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784704117 | ISBN 10: 1784704113

    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER � The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe�s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, �the emerging rock st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
    Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work - by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784786229 | ISBN 10: 1784786225

    A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work.  Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
    The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay - by Guy Standing

    £17.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785900440 | ISBN 10: 1785900447

    There is a lie at the heart of global capitalism. Politicians, financiers and global bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, but have constructed the most unfree market system ever. It is corrupt because income is channelled to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek
    Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - by James Meek

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784782061 | ISBN 10: 1784782068

    How the British government packaged and sold its people to the world. In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing have been sold to remote, unaccountable pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Understanding Class by Erik Olin Wright
    Understanding Class - by Erik Olin Wright

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781689455 | ISBN 10: 1781689458

    A leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism.   Few ideas are more contested today than class. Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary cap ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Buddha on Wall Street: What
    The Buddha on Wall Street: What's Wrong with Capitalism and What to Do About it - by Vaddhaka Linn

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909314443 | ISBN 10: 1909314447

    After his Enlightenment the Buddha set out to help liberate the individual, and create a society free from suffering. The economic resources now exist to offer a realistic possibility of providing everyone with decent food, shelter, work and leisure, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drug War Capitalism by Dawn Paley
    Drug War Capitalism - by Dawn Paley

    £13.00   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849351935 | ISBN 10: 1849351937

    The drug war is less about cocaine or marijuana than it is about social, economic, and territorial control. In Drug War Capitalism, Dawn Paley lays bare the mechanisms through which state and corporate interests are advanced under the pretext of figh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
    The New Prophets of Capital - by Nicole Aschoff

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688106 | ISBN 10: 1781688109

    A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah.   As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has becom ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
    This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - by Naomi Klein

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241956182 | ISBN 10: 0241956188

    Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell
    A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain - by Tamasin Cave and Andy Rowell

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099578314 | ISBN 10: 009957831x

    Q. Whats worth 2,000,000,000, answers to no-one and operates out of public sight? A. Britains influence industry   The corporate takeover of democracy is no conspiracy theory its happening, and it affects every aspect of our lives: th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Slavoj iek
    Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism - by Slavoj iek

    £16.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241004968 | ISBN 10: 0241004969

    In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj iek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.   There is obviously trouble in the global capital ... more

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  • Cover image of book Utopia or Bust by Benjamin Kunkel
    Utopia or Bust - by Benjamin Kunkel

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781683279 | ISBN 10: 1781683271

    "For anyone who cares about historical necessity, the crisis of capitalism, and our fate."(Rachel Kushner) After the financial crash and the Great Recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
    The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire - by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681367 | ISBN 10: 1781681368

    A groundbreaking account of America's role in global capitalism.   The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization ... more

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  • Cover image of book From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland by Tadeusz Kowalik; translated by Eliza Lewandowska
    From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland - by Tadeusz Kowalik; translated by Eliza Lewandowska

    £15.95   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781583672969 | ISBN 10: 1583672966

    In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to really-existing socialism that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themse ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman
    Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain - by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241961049 | ISBN 10: 0241961041

    'Dial M for Murdoch uncovers the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the world: how it came to exert a poisonous, secretive influence on public life in Britain, how it used its huge power to bully, intimidate and cover up, and how ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
    Living in the End Times - by Slavoj Zizek

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677023 | ISBN 10: 1844677028

    Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the four riders of the apocalypse. There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World by Alex Callinicos
    Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World - by Alex Callinicos

    £15.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745648767 | ISBN 10: 0745648762

    Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ripped and Torn: Levi
    Ripped and Torn: Levi's, Latin America and the Bue Jean Dream - by Amaranta Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780091900847 | ISBN 10: 0091900840

    When Amaranta Wright was hired by Levi's to travel through Latin America - her brief to befriend local teenagers and report back on their lives - she saw it as a means to explore a continent she loved. But as time passed and she witnessed first-hand ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: Movements, Histories and Motivations by David E. Lowes
    The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: Movements, Histories and Motivations - by David E. Lowes

    £24.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781842776834 | ISBN 10: 1842776835

    The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary is an alternative and a counter-balance to the many political dictionaries that ignore or marginalize the history and influence of anti-capitalist movements. It paints a rich picture of the ideas and issues that inform ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
    The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141011455 | ISBN 10: 0141011459

    Until 2001, Enron could do no wrong. Feared by rivals and worshipped by investors, its leaders were hailed as visionaries. Then a young Fortune writer named Bethany McLean wrote an article entitled 'Is Enron overpriced?' - and the company fell apart. ... more

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