Books and films

AKP, Sendikacılık ve Siyaset

During AKP rule, trade unionism in Turkey was forced to transform, caught between neoliberalism and conservatism. This book examines the government's interventions in the sphere of labor and the position of the trade union movement in this process, while discussing what kind of trade unionism is needed for social justice and a strong labor struggle.

The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival

The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival explores how a transformative global left politics might be advanced in the context of the emerging multipolar world order and the urgent climate crisis. The book argues that the era of the purely national left is over.

Labor Unions and American Mass Politics

A comprehensive exploration of how labor unions, broadly conceived, shape party loyalties in the American mass public. How and why do labor unions matter for American mass party loyalties, specifically party identification and vote choice?

Aro berria / A New Era

With ecstatic sequences reminiscent of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain, this complex portrait of new-age commune life is a striking feature debut. It’s 1978, and Spanish society is struggling to find a post-dictatorship identity in the wake of Franco’s death.

O pobre de direita: A vingança dos bastardos

WHY DO THE POOR VOTE FOR THE RIGHT? 📍This is the question Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza answers in his book The Right-Wing Poor: The Revenge of the Bastards (2024), and his answer is uncomfortable: it was never about economics.

Workers and the State. Workers’ Struggles and Reform of the Capitalist State from the October Revolution to the New Deal / Operai e Stato. Lotte operaie e riforma dello Stato capitalistico tra Rivoluzione d’Ottobre e New Deal

First published in the early 1970s, Operai e Stato is a classic of radical and workerist thought that shaped a generation of political activists. Its essays examine class composition, political organization, Keynes and the New Deal, and workers’ struggles in Britain and the United States, connecting European and American labor history.

Ken Loach: The Art of Activism

Two times winner of the Palme d'Or, Ken Loach is one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers. This documentary shows in a punk and rebellious tone how Loach uses cinema as a political tool that allows to advocate for the advent of a more just society, by raising viewers' awareness.