New Books for November 2017

A list of some of our new stock. Might make for great holiday gifts!

Green Bans, Red Union: The Saving of a City – Meredith & Verity Burgmann – $40

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook – Mark Bray – $28

Utopia For Realists – Rutger Bregman – $22

Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World – Richard Denniss – $28

The Condition of the Working-Class in England – Friedrich Engels – $23

The Sane Society – Erich Fromm – $12

This Changes Everything – Naomi Klein – $25

No is Not Enough – Naomi Klein – $30

The Conquest of Bread – Peter Kropotkin – $20

The Accumulation of Capital – Rosa Luxemburg – $12

One-Dimensional Man – Herbert Marcuse – $12

October – China Mieville – $35

Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis – George Monbiot – $30

Animal Farm – George Orwell – $18

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell – $25

Ten Myths About Israel – Ilan Pappe – $20

Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism – Rudolf Rocker – $17

The End of Imagination – Arundhati Roy – $33

Hope in the Dark – Rebecca Solnit – $23

Inventing the Future – Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams

My Life – Leon Trotsky – $46

The Revolution Betrayed – Leon Trotsky – $26

History of the Russian Revolution – Leon Trotsky – $50

Adults in the Room – Yanis Varoufakis – $35

Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States – Derek Wall – $36

Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW – Peter Cole, David Struthers and Kenyon Zimmer – $42

Lenin 2017 – Slavov Zizek – $27

New Books for October 2017

The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia – Frank Cain – $40

A People’s History of the Russian Revolution  – Neil Faulkner – $26

Development Against Democracy: Manipulating Political Change in the Third World – Irene L. Gendzier – $36

Devil’s Bargain –  . . the Storming of the Presidency – Joshua Green – $30

Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene – Clive Hamilton – $30

The Palestine Israel Conflict – Greg Harms and Todd Ferry – $34

Lost Copy: The Endless Wards – Iraq and Afghanistan – John Martinkus – $40

Crossing the Line: Australia’s Secret History in the Timor Sea – Kim McGrath – $23

Red – Stephen Moline – $40

The Bolsheviks Come to Power – The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd – Alexander Rabinowitch – $36

Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young – Helen Razer – $28

The Conscientious Communist: Ernie Lane and the Rise of Australian Socialism – Jeff Rickertt – $40

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in – Bernie Sanders – $23

Bridging Troubled Waters: Australia and Asylum Seekers – Tony Ward – $40

Storming Heaven – Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism- Steve Wright – $35

Left Q/A: What does Left & Right when cooperation is required to fix the planet

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We are facing a fundamental change in the way we need to see the world as humans. Up till about 100 years ago the planet was relatively empty of humans and competitive systems of politics and economics were an effective, if at times wasteful, way to colonise all parts of the planet. The planet is now full and so the competition between, left and right, conservative and liberal, communist and capitalist and within all the global markets has run into limits. What are these limits and how do we organise to live within them?

Come hear Steb Fisher, Honorary Research Fellow and Sessional Lecturer in Environment and Sustainability, elaborate on these issues, followed by Q/A.

Admission: $5 Nibs members, $7 non-members

Pre-book tickets at Bella Union here

Left Q/A: Rethinking socialism for sustainability

Thursday 23rd February, 7pm.

Bella Union Bar, 54 Victoria St, Carlton (upstairs, Trades Hall).

Price: $7 (NIBS members), $10 (non-members). Pre-Book here.

Increasing numbers of people agree that capitalism can’t solve our environmental challenges. Many argue that this constitutes a powerful case for reconsider socialism. But, if so, how does socialism need to be rethought and re-envisioned in light of these same challenges? Come listen and interact with two leading thinkers in this space, Hans Baer and Terry Leahy, discuss their ideas.

 

Speakers: Hans Baer (Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne) & Terry Leahy (lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia)

NIBS Holiday Close-Down

Hi all,

NIBS will be open, as normal, until Friday 23rd December

We will then close down from 24th December to 30th January.

We will reopen on Tuesday 30th January at 12pm.

We wish all our supporters and customers a happy festive season and a new year full of creative and enjoyable activism as we struggle for a better world.

Jonathan