The wave of political demonstrations since the Battle of Seattle in 2001 have crystallised a fresh trend in left-wing politics. This book asks how we can reformulate our understanding of revolution as the struggle against power, not for power.[...]

In recent years we have witnessed massive demonstrations of denial, refusal, and rejection exploding in one country after another. The squares of the world have become organizational focal points for rebellion and repression. What does such collective negation mean, and what comes afterward? This is[...]

"Aurora Leigh" (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of [...]