The January 2026 U.S. military extraction of Nicolás Maduro forced every tendency on the international left to show its cards. No more theoretical abstraction, no more equivocation about "objective conditions." The Venezuelan crisis divided the global left into three irreconcilable camps, and this ebook maps exactly where each organization stood when it mattered most.Category A organizations—the Fourth International, International Socialist Tendency, Liga Internacional de los...

This Red Mole Guide gathers two foundational documents of the mid-1960s British workers'-control revival. The Nottingham 1966 Conference report (The Week / Centre for Socialist Education) collects seminar findings on industrial democracy across mining, docks, steel, buses, aircraft, and health and safety, alongside Ken Coates on definitions and a study of Poland's workers' councils. The Hull University Socialist Society symposium (Spring 1967, ed. Tom Fawthrop) argues the case in four part...

Is rent-extraction a category internal to capitalism — or does its dominance signal that capitalism has given way to something else?That question runs beneath every recent claim that Big Tech has ushered in a new "technofeudalism." Red Mole Guide No. 6 answers it from the ground up, in four connected parts.Part I rebuilds the classical apparatus. What, for Marx, individuates one mode of production from another? The mechanism by which surplus labour is pumped out of the dire...

Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, evaluates the prospects for stability of the new democracies, and explores the pos...

Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we g...

The acclaimed account of post-Brexit British politics: a must-read for understanding how we've got to where we are today.'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' - FINANCIAL TIMESIn WTF? Robert Peston draws on his years of experience as a political, economics and business journalist to show us what has gone bad...

The renowned activist's lectures on Cold War foreign policy delivered in Nicaragua during the US-backed war against the Sandinista government.One of Noam Chomsky's most accessible books, On Power and Ideology is a product of his 1986 visit to Managua, Nicaragua, for a lecture series at Universidad Centroamericana. Delivered at the height of US involvement in the Nicaraguan civil war, this succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky'...

Three speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto Che Guevara offers a revolutionary view of a world in which human solidarity and understanding replace imperialist aggression and exploitation.First, in a sharp speech given in Algeria on February 24, 1965 at the Afro-Asia Economic Seminar, Che speaks about the...

'I strongly agree with the central message of [the] book...that we need a sense of moral compass in politics... Put together it's pretty shocking' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics: LeadingAs Prime Minister and Home Secretary, Theresa May came face-to-face with a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the trust in public institutions and politicians. From the Grenfell tragedy to ...

Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a pro...

From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions,fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creatinginstitutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. Withspecific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, thispathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often underappreciated historical tra...

'I want to provide a call to action for fellow conservatives who believe in our nation and our way of life and who share my frustration at what has been going wrong with our politics and governance. I want others to heed the warnings of what I saw happening and learn the lessons of the battle I lost.'Over the course of a decade as a minister, Liz Truss sought to champion limited government and individual freedom in the face of the left-wing political agenda that fr...