Pluto Press imprint: 440 books
The Provisional IRA
From Insurrection to Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
This book analyses the underlying reasons behind the formation of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), its development, where this current in Irish republicanism is at present and its prospects for the future.*BR**BR*Tommy McKearney, a former IRA member who was part of the 1980 hunger strike,...
by Jean Jaurès
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Jean Jaures was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated in 1914 for trying to use diplomacy and industrial action to prevent the outbreak of war. Published just a few years before his death, his magisterial A Socialist History of the French Revolution has endured for over a century...
Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban
Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
President Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the most recent attacks.*BR**BR*Investigative journalist...
The Discipline of Western Supremacy
Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Concluding the Deutscher Memorial Prize winning trilogy on 'Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy', this is a magisterial historical sociology of International Relations theory.*BR**BR*In The Discipline of Western Supremacy Kees van der Pijl argues that, from the late European Middle Ages,...
by Jim Mac Laughlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition rescues Peter Kropotkin's philosophy of anarchism from the neglect that it has suffered in mainstream histories of the social and environmental sciences.
Stressing Kropotkin’s intellectual strengths and philosophical integrity of anarchism,...
Max Weber
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
Max Weber is one of the founding fathers of sociology. He is often referred to as a sophisticated 'value-free' sociologist. This new critical introduction argues that Weber’s sociology cannot be divorced from his political standpoint. Weber saw himself as a ‘class conscious bourgeois’ and his...
Ideologies in the Age of Extremes
Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, Fascism 1914-1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2010
This is a history of political ideologies during the period from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, famously described by Eric Hobsbawm as 'The Age of Extremes'.*BR**BR*By introducing the key ideologies of the twentieth-century: liberalism, conservatism, communism and fascism,...
Fascism
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1999
In the 1930s fascist parties came to power across Europe. Millions were killed in the war and the Holocaust. Yet, sixty years on, fascism is on the rise once more in all major European states and far right parties are again winning converts.*BR**BR*To explain this disturbing trend, Dave Renton surveys...
Herbert Marcuse
An Aesthetics of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and its excesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas of Herbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s. This is the first English introduction to Marcuse to be published for decades, and deals specifically...
The Chaplin Machine
Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin?
Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy?
And why did Lenin love circus clowns?
The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and, in particular, its unlikely passion for American...
Islamic State
Rewriting History
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The world is watching Islamic State’s lightning advance through Syria to the gates of Baghdad. For the third time in fifteen years, the US risks being drawn into another war in the Middle East despite its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. IS are creating catastrophic waves across the region,...
Gerrard Winstanley
The Digger's Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy, Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) was one of the founders of a movement which fought for the redistribution of land and the abolition of wages and property under Oliver Cromwell.*BR**BR*John Gurney reveals the...
The Death of Homo Economicus
Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
In today's workplaces we work harder and longer, labouring under the illusion that this will bring us more wealth. As this myth becomes increasingly preposterous, it's time to understand why we believe in it, and where it came from. *BR**BR*The Death of Homo Economicus explores the origin of this...
Economics for Everyone
A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't).
Economics for Everyone, now published in second edition, is an antidote to the...