Politics/Current Affairs

One of the most acclaimed essayists writing today on the political hysteria plaguing the West

An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world

How the case to abolish conflict failed and heralded the era of 'forever wars'.

Why we should all work less! A radical and pragmatic manifesto for tackling the twin crises of work and care in contemporary capitalism.

The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. In Silicon Values, leading campaigner Jillian ...

The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk

What does care mean? who exactly is paying for the Global Financial Crisis in term of care?

This book examines the history of Labour's civil wars and the underlying causes of the party's schisms, from the first split of 1931, engineered by Ramsay MacDonald, to the ongoing battle for the future between the incumbent, Keir Starmer, and those who fundamentally altered the party's course under his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.

Leadership of the United Kingdom is being debated as never before. This book is a clear-sighted and insightful contribution to that debate.

An urgent exploration of the challenges facing democracy today

Part of Virago's Five Gold Reads: Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today. Representing the 2000s, Natasha Walter's highly acclaimed, controversial and much needed look at our highly sexualised culture

How did we get from the end of the Cold War to Trump and Putin?

We are not entering a new era of fake news - we are finally facing up to the world we live in.

An extraordinary, evocative investigation into the legacy of the controversial one-child policy across all of Chinese society

How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives Matter

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small town

New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people

Essential reading for students of African-American history

An investigation into what makes the consistency of political groupings

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle
Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, ...