the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays. The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel. -Invited to lecture as part of the prestigious Lannan -Foundation series on the first anniversary of the unconscionable attacks of September 11, 2001, Roy challenged those who equate dissent wi...

In this attractive South End Press Classics edition, featuring a new preface, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation....

A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving....There can be no love without justice.-from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism"In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in comm...

Heat marks an important moment in our civilization's thinking about global warming. The question is no longer Is climate change actually happening? Now, only one question is worth asking: Can it be stopped?

George Monbiot thinks it can, and offers a book that just might save our ...

When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery was originally released in 1994, it won critical praise and solidified bell hooks' reputation as one of the leading public intellectuals of her generation. Today, the book is considered a classic in African American and feminist circle...

As a young Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal helped found the Philadelphia branch, wrote for the newspaper, and began his life-long fight for freedom. In We Want Freedom, Mumia combines his memories of day-to-day life in the Party with analysis of the history of Black liberation struggles. The result i...

"[Frank B.] Wilderson [will] become a major American writer. Mark my word."-Ishmael Reed

In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank B. Wilderson, one of only two black American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to ...

"A dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people."-Naomi Klein

"The most powerful treatise yet on the gravity of global warming. . . . I defy you to read this book and not feel motivated to change."-The Times (London)

"If you care about the future of the planet, ...

Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities-even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short ...