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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
Towards a Postcolonial 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
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, May 2008

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
On the Women Question by Raya Dunayevskaya, 1951
The Fact of Blackness by 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
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
Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds A Storm and a Prophecy by Insurgent Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, 1994
Disagreement: Politics & Philosophy by Jacques Rancière, 1995 (English translation 1999)
Linking the Urban and Rural by Mahmood Mamdani, 1996
Figures of the Thinkable (including Passion and Knowledge) by Cornelius Castoriadis, 1997 (English translation, 2005)
Homer Sacer by Giorgio Agamben, 1998
Du Bois's Humanistic Philosophy of Human Sciences by Lewis Gordon, 2000
The Debt Crisis, Africa and the New Enclosures by Silvia Federici, 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 Jacques Rancière, 2001
Change the World Without Taking Power by 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
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
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
Transformative Possibilities in Latin America, by William Robinson, 2008
Politics at stake: a note on stakeholder analysis, by Mark Butler & David Ntseng, July 2008

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)
'Cities and Insurrections', an excerpt from Revolutionaries by Eric Hobsbawm, 1973
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
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
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

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

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