Radical Ebook Archive

We're still uploading books. Mostly out-of-print and hard to find ones, but straight to venues like library.nu If we upload anything e...

We just scanned and formatted the first version of E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class that's designed for easy...

In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the...

A snippet preview of the new issue of Jacobin . Citing Badiou , Žižek determines that democratic procedures, under capitalist conditions, ...

The Plague of Fantasies : Zizek explores the relations between fantasy and ideology and the intensifying antagonism between the ever great...

The best new journal to come out of the left, especially the North American student left, in a while… Editor's Note "And Yet It...

“ Jacobin is a magazine of culture and polemic that Edmund Burke ceaselessly berates on his Twitter page. Each of our issue's conten...

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Some good reads here, in particular: Take This Job and Share It — Chris Maisano Why We Loved the Zapatistas — Bhaskar Sunkara Let Th...

As requested … I have some more Badiou around, not a fan personally though. Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condem...

In this original and provocative book Ellen Meiksins Wood reminds us that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human ...

This is the first critical account of the internationally renowned Mondragon cooperatives of the Basque region of Spain. The Mondragon coo...

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire has been hailed as a latter day Communist Manifesto.  As much as it has seduced and deli...

The Meaning of Sarkozy was okay, but I don’t really mess with the man.  I’ll try to parse through this new little red book at some point,...

The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as his magn...

Darkness at Noon is a novel by the Hungarian -born British novelist Arthur Koestler , first published in 1940. His best-known work, it te...

Commonwealth , last and richest of the Empire trilogy, is a powerful and ambitious reappropriation of the whole tradition of political th...

Developing themes of his earlier works, Poulantzas here advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of the state, arguin...

See here for more information about the national day of action. Related reading: Alex Callinicos’ short book Universities in a Neol...

  Can’t take credit for the scan and the upload, but I’ve been looking for Gramsci’s selected writings forever so I thought I’d share it...

The book follows the personal lives of a close-knit group of French intellectuals from the end of WWII to the mid fifties. The title refer...

In a superb recent piece in the London Review of Books, Perry Anderson described this work as the following: “Although quite different in...

Reading through this now, also planning to read Elliott’s older work on Perry Anderson at some point.  Description and links below… *...

In between hitting on other people’s girlfriends I’ve spent a portion of my Valentine’s weekend reading Louis Althusser and buying his ...

The mildly amusing poll on the right sidebar has prompted this question a few times.  I’ve never been more disappointed in my life. Listen...

As promised…. British historian Hobsbawm is most noted for his three-volume history of the "long 19th century" (1789-1914). He...

In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years ...

I’ve held back on posting my New Left Review archives since I’d like to encourage people to subscribe to that journal, despite some of the...

This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawls...

We all love and miss Howard Zinn, but if he’s your favorite historian and you’ve never read this classic… “I am seeking to rescue the po...

A classic work by the founding father of existentialism, describing his philosophy and its relationship to Marxism. DOWNLOAD

Merry Christmas.  I t hought that this would be an appropriate time to remind people of the existence of this work.  We don’t have to do ...

I haven’t finished it yet, but so far it’s much more thoughtful than Bill Ayers’ mess of a memoir.  I have little faith that Mark Rudd ca...

"Imagine a time when women lived together, worked together, sang and danced together, and our lives, work rhythms, songs and dance r...

A trenchant and witty dissection of the French political scene by the leading radical philosopher. Alain Badiou, in this sharp and focus...

From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown—but underlying both is the irrationality of global capitalism. In this br...

Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history o...

As usual… support the site if you have a moment, because I guarantee you won’t find this anywhere else.  Trust me I tried. The Rebel (...

Within the next week: Albert Camus Collection: The Stranger, The Rebel, The Myth of Sisyphus and others The New Masses Archiv...

I like Zizek.  He might be full of shit 99 percent of the time, but it’s very entertaining shit.  And it is refreshing to hear a good defens...

Peter Osborne, How to Read Marx Norton | 2006 | ISBN 0393328783 | 144 Pages | PDF OCR | 1.4 MB Drawing on passages from a wide rang...

Good translations have been found and are being properly formatted. Look for it in the coming days and in the meantime support the site th...

It’s often said that this is the book that made Lenin a revolutionary.  It’s probably far more likely that his brother being murdered by t...

100 years on, still no power for the world proletariat.  Certainly there needs to be a reassessment, but there is a lot that still can be ...

Is there like a new COINTELPRO directed at anarchist and anti-war groups?  I suppose dreary “orthodox” Marxists like myself aren’t the thr...

The Platypus Synthesis: History, Theory, and Practice At the 1st annual international convention of the Platypus Affiliated Society, i...

A very important work that I would recommend to any leftist. Articles on this book: The Activist , Perm. Revolution , The Commune ...

This book by Alan Woods is a polemic against a well-known (in Latin America) intellectual Heinz Dieterich. Dieterich claims to have invent...

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Memories of Underdevelopment is the classic film of Cuban cinema. Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea , the story is based on a novel by E...

I haven’t read this book, not sure if I’ll get around to reading this book, but it’s getting a lot of attention so I figure I would post it...

This extended essay is a MUST read for anyone who claims to be a leftist or a socialist of any stripe. He was however in my estimation a bit...

Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from th...

I’m partial to Tout va bien as well, even though the Maoist undertones seem a bit dated.  His mainstream films as obviously classics as w...

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvemen...

What do anarchists want? It seems easier to classify them by what they don't want, namely, the organizations of the State, and to ide...

Michael Newman examines and explains the successes and failures of modern socialism by taking an international perspective -- ranging from...

Understanding Power is a wide-ranging collection of transcribed and previously unpublished discussions and seminars (from 1989 to 1999) w...

In this highly readable, heavily footnoted critique of American foreign policy from the late 1950s to the present, Chomsky (whose 9-11 wa...

An absolutely brilliant analysis of the ways in which individuals and organizations of the media are influenced to shape the social agend...

The World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of twentieth-century political history and a stirring appeal to take political culture...

The Liberal Virus examines the ways in which the American model is being imposed on the world, and outlines its economic and political c...

The CIA and the British secret service MI6, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services set up...

Written in 1970 by a prominent Marxist philosopher and student of Georg Lukács, this book argues that alienation is the central idea in a...

Combining information with an entertaining style, this concise guide to the life and work of the great philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre focus...