Essays & Interviews
- 'The Great Towns', from The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels, 1845
- The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx, 1851
- Extract from 'A Seventh Man' in Race & Class by John Berger, 1975
- Shall We Leave It to the Experts? by Arundhati Roy, 2002
- Tresspass At Will: Squatting as Direct Action, Human Rights & Justified Theft by Erin Wiegand, 2002
- Another world is necessary by Nawal El Saadawi, 2003
- Ngicelwe ukuba ngikhulume ngokuthi “kungaliwa kanjani noMbuso?” Lo ngumbuzo onzulu, anginazo izimpendulo ezilula ngu-Arundhati Roy, 2003
- Towards a Post-Colonial Modernity, Partha Chatterjee interviewed by Nermeen Shaikh, 2004
- Haitian Inspiration by Peter Hallward, 2004
- Purging the Poor by Naomi Klein, 2004
- That have not been asked: ten dispatches about endurance in face of walls by John Berger, 2005
- The de Soto Delusion by John Gravois, 2005
- Fear and Money in Dubai by Mike Davis, 2006
- Ghettos & Anti-Ghettos: Anatomy of the New Urban Poverty, Interview with Loïc Wacquant, 2006
- Demolishing Delhi: World Class City in the Making by Amita Baviskar 2006
- Drowning by Numbers- The Non-Reproduction of New Orleans by Benedict Seymour, 2006
- Hurricane Katrina and the Crisis of Black Politics by the editors of New Beginnings, 2007
- Squatters and the cities of tomorrow by Robert Neuwirth, 2007
- The routes and possibilities of a South - South subversive globalization: Africa and Brazil by Jacques Depelchin, 2007
- "We Learn as we Go" - Zapatista women share their experiences by Hilary Klein, 2008
- Slums law based on flawed interpretation of UN goals, by Marie Huchzermeyer, 2008
- The New Ecology of War, Mike Davis interviewed by Mattias Hagberg, 2009
- Interview with Jacques Rancière by Lawrence Liang, 2009
General Theory
- Power Corrupts the Best by Mikhail Bakunin, 1867
- Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy by Rosa Luxemburg, 1904
- On Bureaucracy & Self-activity of The Masses by Aleksandra Kollontay, 1921
- Politics and the English Language by George Orwell, 1946
- Intellectuals by Antonio Gramsci, in the Prison Notebooks, 1949
- Voluntarism and the Social Masses by Antonio Gramsci, in the Prison Notebooks, 1949
- Some Theoretical and Practical Aspects of "Economism" by Antonio Gramsci, in the Prison Notebooks, 1949
- Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire, 1951
- On the Women Question by Raya Dunayevskaya, 1951
- The Fact of Blackness by Frantz Fanon, 1952
- Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz fanon, 1952
- Every Cook Can Govern by C.L.R. James, 1956
- The Working Class and Organisation by Cornelius Castoriadis, 1959
- The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
- The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon, 1961
- Excepts from the Critique of Dialectical Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1960
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, 1968
- Sex, Race and Class by Selma James, 1973
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, 1973
- Dialectical Reason by Rick Turner, 1973
- Philosophy of Liberation by Enrique Dussel, 1980
- Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis, 1981
- Experiences of Democracy in Africa: Reflections on Practices of Communalist Palaver as a Method of Resolving Contradictions by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, 1985
- Black Consciousness 1977-1987 by Nigel Gibson
- The Ignorant Schoolmaster by Jacques Ranciere, 1991
- The Underside of Modernity by Enrique Dussel, 1993
- Linking the Urban and Rural by Mahmood Mamdani, 1996
- Fanon's Dialectic of Experience, by Ato Sekyi-Otu, 1996
- Disagreement: Politics & Philosophy by Jacques Rancière, 1995 (English translation 1999)
- Figures of the Thinkable (including Passion and Knowledge) by Cornelius Castoriadis, 1997 (English translation, 2005)
- Homer Sacer by Giorgio Agamben, 1998
- Listening to Africa, Misunderstanding and Misinterpreting Africa: Reformist Western Feminist Evangelism on African Women, by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome 1999
- Du Bois's Humanistic Philosophy of Human Sciences by Lewis Gordon, 2000
- The Debt Crisis, Africa and the New Enclosures by Silvia Federici, 2001
- Black Capitalism, by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, 2001
- The Pitfalls of South Africa's 'Liberation' by Nigel Gibson, 2001
- Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala South Africa and Porto Alegre by Patrick Heller, 2001
- Ten Thesis on Politics, by Jacques Rancière, 2001
- An Introduction to Dual Power Strategy, by Brian Dominick, 2002
- Change the World Without Taking Power by John Holloway, 2002
- Going in the Wrong Direction or Mephistopheles: Not Saint Francis of Assisi, John Holloway, 2002
- The Twilight of Vanguardism by David Graeber, 2003
- Fanon and the Possibility of Post-Colonial Critical Imagination by Ato Sekyi-Otu, 2003
- The Explosive Alliance by Richard Pithouse, 2004
- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber, 2004
- Infinite Thought by Alain Badiou, 2004
- Badiou's Politics: Equality and Justice by Peter Hallward, 2004
- Dignity's Revolt by John Holloway, 2005
- Twelve Theses on Changing the World without taking Power by John Holloway, 2005
- Indianismo and Marxism: The mismatch of two revolutionary rationales, by Álvaro García Linera, 2005
- Jacques Ranciere and the Subversion of Mastery by Peter Hallward, 2005
- New Introduction to Steve Biko's I Write What I Like by Lewis Gordon, 2005
- The Not Yet Counter-Partisan by Grant Farred, 2005
- The Politics of Prescription by Peter Hallward, 2005
- Democratic Materialism and the Materialist Dialectic by Alain Badiou, 2005
- Trotsky, the Left Opposition and the Rise of Stalinism: Theory and Practice by John Eric Marot, 2006
- From ‘Foreign Natives’ to ‘Native Foreigners’: Explaining xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa by Michael Neocosmos, 2006
- Precarious Labour: A Feminist Viewpoint by Silvia Frederici, 2006
- Is Fanon Relevant? Translations, the postcolonial imagination and the second stage of total liberation by Nigel Gibson, 2006
- African-American Philosophy, Race and the Geography of Reason by Lewis Gordon, 2006
- What is the Left? by Alain Badiou, 2006
- Selma James & the Wages for Housework Campaign by Shemon Salam, 2007
- On the Coloniality of Being by Nelson Maldonado Torres, 2007
- Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa by Michael Neocosmos, 2007
- Through the Hellish Zone of Non-Being: Thinking Through Fanon, Disaster, and the Damned of the Earth by Lewis Gordon, 2007
- Against and Beyond the State, An Interview with John Holloway, 2007
- Learning to Walk: NGO Practice and the Possibility of Freedom by Mark Butler with Thulani Ndlazi, David Ntseng, Graham Philpott, and Nomusa Sokhela, August 2007
- Beyond State Politics, by Brother Filippo Mondini, May 2008
- We Refugees, by Giorgio Agamben, 2008
- The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics, by Michael Neocosmos, 2008
- Politics at stake: a note on stakeholder analysis, by Mark Butler & David Ntseng, July 2008
- Noam Chomsky on Postmodernism, by Noam Chomsky, December 2008
- Preface to the new Hindi edition of Nights of Labour, by Jacques Ranciere, 2009
- Why Biko Wouldn't Vote, by Andile Mngxitama, 2009
- Promissory Notes: From Crisis to Commons, Midnight Notes, 2009
- The Will of the People: Notes Towards a Dialectical Voluntarism by Peter Hallward, 2009
Theory & the City
- 'The Paris Commune' from The Civil War in France by Karl Marx, 1871
- The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State by Mikhail Bakunin, 1871
- The Housing Question by Frederick Engels, 1872
- The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, 1935
- Building, Dwelling, Thinking by Martin Heidegger, 1951 (translated 1971)
- 'The Paris Commune Illuminates and Deepens the Content of Capital', Chapter 6 of Marxism & Freedom by Raya Dunayevskaya, 1958
- Theses on the Paris Commune by the Situationist International, 1962
- Urbanism and Community Planning by Kenneth Rexroth, 1964
- 'On Violence' from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, 1965 (Constance Farrington's translation)
- 'Territorial Domination' chapter 7 from The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, 1967 (Kenn Knabb's translation)
- Rationality in the Slum: An Essay on Interpretive Sociology, by Alejandro Portes,1972
- 'Cities and Insurrections', an excerpt from Revolutionaries by Eric Hobsbawm, 1973
- The Production of Space, by Henri Lefebvre, 1974
- The Myth of Marginality by Janice Perlman, 1976
- Housing by People by John Turner, 1976
- Spatial Deconcentration in Washington D.C. by the Midnight Notes Collective, 1981
- Un-civil Society: The politics of the 'informal people' by Asef Bayat, 1997
- From`Dangerous Classes' to `Quiet Rebels': Politics of the Urban Subaltern in the Global South by Asef Bayat, 2000
- Urban Development on the Basis of Autonomy - politico-philosophical and ethical framework for Urban Planning and Management by Marcello Lopez de Souza, 2000
- Logics of Urban Polarisation: the view from below by Loïc Wacquant, 2000
- The Wall & the Eye an interview with Eyal Weizman, 2002
- Towards a Dictatorship Over the Poor: Notes on the penalization of poverty in Brazil by Loïc Wacquant, 2003
- Logic of the Site by Alain Badiou, 2003
- The Right to the City, by David Harvey, 2003
- No Trespassing! by Anders Corr, 2004
- Places of their Own: African-American Suburbanization in the Mid Twentieth Century by Andrew Wiese, 2004 (Excerpt on 'urban renewal' and 'slum clearance' as ethnic cleansing)
- Decivilizing and Demonizing: the social and symbolic remaking of the black ghetto by Loïc Wacquant, 2004
- The Topology of Being and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: Modernity, empire, coloniality by Nelson Maldonado Torres, 2004
- 'The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics' in Polemics, by Alain Badiou, 2006
- Together with the state, despite the state, against the state by Marcello Lopez de Souza, 2006
- Fanon and Space: colonization, urbanization, and liberation from the colonial to the global city by Stephan Kipfer, 2007
- The Ignored Philosopher and Social Theorist: The Work of Henri Lefebvre by Stanley Aronowitz, Situations, 2007
- What is an African architecture?, by Jose Forjaz, Conference on African Architecture, Kumasi, Ghana, June 2007
- The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape by Slavoj Žižek, 2007
- Liberated Territories by Slavoj Žižek, 2007
- Grassroots Political Militants: Banlieusards and Politics by Emilio Quadrelli, 2007
- Lethal Theory by Eyal Weizman, 2007
- The Militarization of the World's Urban Peripheries by Raúl Zibechi, 2008
- Surveilliance, the Law & the Rules by Martin Mongin, 2008
- The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou, 2008
- The Right to the City, by David Harvey, 2008
- Social Movements in the Face of Criminal Power, Marcelo Lopes de Souza, 2009
- Participatory Society: Urban Space & Freedom, by Chris Spannos, 2009
- Going Nowhere or Staying Put, Neil Gray, 2009
- A Republic of Cities, by Gautam Bhan, 2010
Theory & Land
- Land in South Africa: Gift for All or Commodity for the Few? by Mark Butler & Graham Philpott, 2004
- Concept Note on 'Willing Buyer Willing Seller by Mark Butler, 2006
- The Food Crisis Is Not Just About Food, by Jacques Depelchin, 2008
Theology
- The Gospel of Matthew, c100A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King, 1967
- Liberation versus Submission, Jean-Pierre Cloutier, 1987
- Remebering the Poor, Gustavo Gutiérrez, 2003
- Black Liberation Theology (audio), James Cone, 2008
- Introduction to A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, by the Poverty Initiative, 2009
Contemporary Political Analysis
- Transformative Possibilities in Latin America, by William Robinson, 2008
- The Weakest Link? Neoliberalism in Latin America, by Emir Sader, August 2008
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