Behind the scenes we've been working on a great list of new books for this year – now is your chance to see what we're planning!
The biggest issue of our time is who controls our food, land and environment. None of us can afford not to be up-to-date, especially with the Rio+20 world summit happening in June. Get informed with The Great Food Robbery: How Corporations Control Food, Grab Land and Destroy the Climate - out in April.
We are very proud to be publishing a new edition of the African classic that belongs on every bookshelf: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is out in June to mark the anniversary of Walter Rodney's outrageous assassination.
Everyone wants to know how the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa will shape our future – we offer you an analysis of what could happen over the longer term from one of the world's greatest thinkers, Samir Amin – The People's Spring: The Future of the Arab Revolution is out in July.
An extraordinary collection of never-before-published letters and poems has come our way – written in prison by Ken Saro-Wiwa in the months before the Nigerian dictatorship hanged him. Silence Would be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Not available until October, but worth the wait.
Download our catalogue here to see the exciting new publications on offer as well as to catch up on our wonderful existing titles.
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The Great Food Robbery How Corporations Control Food, Grab Land and Destroy the Climate
2012 Edition
By putting profits first, corporations destroy local food systems, exploit labour and damage the environment. Land grabs displace the poor, a billion go hungry though there is enough for all, and the climate worsens. Here the connections are made clear.
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2012 Edition
Rodney's groundbreaking analysis shows how the wealthy countries and international capitalism bear major responsibility for impoverishing Africa. This classic remains an essential introduction to the dynamics of Africa's relations with the West.
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The People's Spring The Future of the Arab Revolution
2012 Edition
The 2011 Arab uprisings offer a glimpse of a better future but a huge challenge. To take control, Arab peoples need to ally with struggles for secular democracy and face the militarism and erosion of democracy that capitalism's decline promises.
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Silence Would be Treason Last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa
2012 Edition
Ken Saro-Wiwa's final letters from detention before his shocking execution by Nigeria's military dictatorship in 1995 form a passionate document about his activism against oil and gas extraction in Ogoniland, the struggle for democracy and his own trial.
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