Activism Books

Radicals' digest

Authors pour the finest aspects of their knowledge and insights into their books. To educate us and the next generation of local community activists. Out of their selection, here we offer a further refinement of book quotes and excerpts as attributed to their authors from some 120 books concerning the social reality of the world we live in, with eight recently published books to consider first.

• Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization
• Democracy in Chains: the deep history of the radical right's stealth
• The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
• Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
• The Uninhabitable World: A Story of the Future
• Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation
• Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
• Economics and the Ecosystem

Note all of these are copyrighted materials owned by their respective authors, published here to allow our users to discover them.

• Asset Based Community Development (ABCD): Looking Back to Look Forward
• Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
• Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy
• Bad Banks: Greed, Incompetence and the Next Global Crisis
• Because We Say So
• Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance
• Big Capital: Who Is London For?
• Birth of the Chaordic Age
• Blair & Iraq: Why Tony Blair Went to War - An Investigation
• Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America
• Blessed Unrest
• A Brief History Of Neoliberalsim (2005)
• Britain and the EU: In or Out?
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets
• Capitalism: A Ghost Story
• Capitalism: A Short History
• Capitalist Realism – Is There An Alternative?
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
• Corbyn: First They Ignore You
• Counterpower
• Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
• Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order
• The Debt Generation
• Democracy for an Ecological Age
• Democracy in Chains: the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America
• Dismembered: How the attack on the state harms us all
• Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it
• Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
• Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
• Economics and the Ecosystem
• Economyths
• Empire of Chaos: The Roving Eye Collection
• Fed Up: An Insider's Take on the Willful Ignorance and Elitism At the Federal Reserve
• Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
• From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
• Gaian Democracies: Redefining Globalisation and People-Power (Schumacher Briefings)
• Get It Together: The NHS
• Good times, Bad Times
• Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
• Historical Capitalism: With Capitalist Civilization
• A History of 20th Century Britain (2007)
• How I Caused The Credit Crunch
• How To Change The World – Tales Of Marx And Marxism
• How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead (2011)
• The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
• In and Out of Crisis (2010)
• In Bed With Madness
• Inequality and the 1%
• Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists
• Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide
• Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
• Islam – A Short History
• Just Money – How Society Can Break The Despotic Power Of Finance
• Life: A natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
• A Little History of Economics
• Male suicide prevention: a personal take
• Modernising Money: Why Our Monetary System is Broken and How it Can be Fixed
• Mr Osborne's Economic Experiment: Austerity 1945-51 & 2010
• The Neoliberal Crisis
• NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies & Deception
• Occupy
• Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform (March 2012)
• Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?
• Paramilitarism And The Assault On Democracy In Haiti
• Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
• Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
• Private Island - Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else
• Progress and Poverty
• Promises of Freedom: Citizenship, Belonging and Lifelong Learning (Ifll Thematic Paper)
• Rebel: How to Overthrow the Emerging Oligarchy
• Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
• Rethinking Community Practice: developing transformative neighbourhoods (2013)
• Rise of the Network Society (The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume I)
• Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and Be Happy
• Ruling The Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy
• SACK THE ECONOMISTS and disband their departments
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Saving Capitalism: For The Many, Not The Few
• Shadow State: Inside the Secret Companies that Run Britain
• Signals: the breakdown of the social contract and the rise of geopolitics
• Social Class in the 21st Century
• S.O.S. Alternatives to Capitalism (World Changing)
• State of Power 2016: Democracy, Power & Resistance
• Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation
• Swimming with Sharks: My Journey into the World of the Bankers
• The Alternative: Towards a New Progressive Politics
• THE ARMCHAIR ACTIVIST'S HANDBOOK
• The Cabinet Office, 1916-2018: The Birth of Modern Government
• The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power
• The Cost Of Equality
• The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge
• The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
• The Enigma of Capitalism
• The Establishment: And how they get away with it
• The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe
• The Euro Crisis For Dummies
• The Finance Curse: How Oversized Financial Sectors Attack Democracy and Corrupt Economics
• The Future Of Money
• The Global Minotaur
• The Great Divide
• The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business
• The Great Work
• The Industries of the Future
• The Leaderless Revolution (2011)
• The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031
• The Lure of Greatness: England’s Brexit and America's Trump
• The Meaning of Human Existence
• The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis
• The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens
• The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business (2013)
• The New Robber Barons
• The Origin of Financial Crises: Central banks, credit bubbles and the efficient market fallacy
• The Populist Manifesto
• The Rotten Heart of Europe
• The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society
• The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism
• The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism
• The Ways of the World
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• Think Like a Commoner
• This Changes Everything
• Three Circles into One: Brexit Britain: how did we get here and what happens next?
• Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
• Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World ( 2011)
• Tsunami: Scotland's Democratic Revolution
• The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
• Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek
• We Have Never Been Neoliberal: A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth
• What's the worst that could happen?
• Where Does Money Come From?
• Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
• Why Are We The Good Guys
• Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power
• Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere
• Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform
• Wild Law (second edition 2011)
• Winner Take All: China's Race For Resources and What It Means For Us
• Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation
• You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train
• You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom