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The book critiques the justifications for the Iraq War, challenging the narrative that it was a "humanitarian intervention" and that the US military acts as a liberating force. It examines the perspectives of prominent liberal commentators who argue that Islam poses a significant threat to global peace. Through a critical lens, it addresses the implications of these views and their impact on public discourse regarding war and intervention.

The narrative explores the actions of everyday Americans who have stood up against imperialism throughout history, highlighting significant moments from Mark Twain's critiques to the anti-Vietnam War movement. It showcases the courage and determination of individuals who have questioned and resisted the expansion of American power, illustrating a rich tapestry of dissent and activism that has shaped the nation's conscience.

Against Austerity is a blistering, accessible and invigorating polemic against the current political consensus. Deploying his renowned power of razor-sharp polemic Richard Seymour charts the role of austerity in radically reducing living standards, fracturing established political structures, and creating simmering social alienation and explosions of discontent. But Against Austerity goes further – making a bold theoretical intervention on the question of challenging austerity and creating radical alternatives. Beginning with an analysis of current class formation and dominant ideology, Seymour issues a call to arms, mapping a new strategy to unite the left. Along the way, he tackles the vexed question of achieving social change, in particular issues of reform and social revolution. In an age characterised by the paucity and inadequacy of mainstream analysis, Against Austerity points a way forward to revive the left and create a new spirit of collective resistance.

Examining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as successful counter-revolutions. Adding a new dimension to the history of revolutions, it addresses key debates in democratisation, authoritarian resilience and civil resistance.

The finest study of Corbyn yet written. -Stephen Bush, New Statesman Richard Seymour has a brilliant mind and a compelling style. Everything he writes is worth reading. -Gary Younge Seymour is an essential voice on the left, and this book is a necessary intervention, explaining this daunting political moment and bringing the focus back to strategy. Not so much a call to arms as a call to brains. -Laurie Penny Corbyn not only shows how, amid Labour Party decline, Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters challenged the neoliberal consensus, but also considers the possibility of success and what form that might take. -Times Higher Education (Books of the Year 2016) The Anglophone left has been cheered by the surprising rise of Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in Britain. Richard Seymour's elegantly written book is a reminder of all the obstacles facing Corbyn. Even if you're not as pessimistic as Seymour about his prospects, you really need to pay attention to this critique. It will make you a better fighter of the necessary class war. -Doug Henwood, author of My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency No one writes about politics the way Richard Seymour does. He takes a very British story of the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, with all its peculiarities and details, and turns it into a revelation of the international crisis of parliamentary democracy. Whether you love Corbyn-or Sanders or Podemos or Syriza-or loathe him (and them), you'll find here the most sophisticated diagnosis of why men and women across the globe are turning to the left and why their aspirations are so continuously being frustrated. Seymour is a magnificent explainer: pointed without being pedantic, funny with out being flip, and always insisting that we take in the whole. -Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin One of our most astute political analysts turns his attention to Corbyn, and the result is predictably essential: not just to make sense of how we got to this unlikely situation, but for his thoughts on what the left might do next. -China Miéville Long after the Labour left was thought to be dead, Jeremy Corbyn's emergence has inspired millions. There is no one better positioned than Richard Seymour to take a look at his emergence and whether Corbyn can actually turn Labour into a force for radical change. -Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin A witty and acute political and historical analysis from a position to the left of Corbyn ... Seymour is utterly unsentimental in his analysis. -Robert Potts, Times Literary Supplement A highly opinionated study of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership, and the circumstances that gave rise to it ... full of insights. -Andy Beckett, Guardian The fullest and fairest account of Jeremy Corbyn's rise released to date. In avoiding much of the rhetoric espoused in similar accounts focusing on Corbyn's early career this book provides a frank account of how the unlikely leader took charge of the Labour party. It is a very readable account too. Richard Seymour writes plainly but effectively and his writing is both accessible and incredibly informative. -Liam Young, New Statesman The first serious analysis of Jeremy Corbyn's unexpected ascent. -Yohann Koshy, Vice Laser-sharp analysis of British 'Labourism' and its contradictions ... This book is terrifically astute. -Jamie Maxwell, The National A brilliant and incisive analysis by a long-term watcher of the party. -Asa Winstanley, Middle East Monitor An excellent political biography. -Choice It is a point of contention whether the politics represented by Jeremy Corbyn offers a pathway out of the crisis or we are instead witnessing the last hurrah of Britain's harried and diminished workers' movement. That is one of the questions Richard Seymour tries to answer in his excellent new book...Seymour's analysis remains indispensibl

A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social mediaFormer social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience.The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time. In this polemical tour de force, Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think.Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into. Social media held out the promise that we could make our own history–to what extent did we choose the nightmare that it has become?

The book delves into the complexities of David Cameron's political persona, portraying him as a multifaceted figure appealing to diverse groups, from youth to traditionalists. It critiques the superficiality of his image, suggesting that despite extensive public knowledge about him, he remains an ambiguous figure lacking depth. The narrative aims to expose the disingenuous nature of his politics and to analyze the underlying forces he represents, ultimately revealing the disconnect between his public persona and genuine political substance.

Up-to-date analysis of how Corbyn rose to the head of the labour party, and his prospects for staying thereJeremy Corbyn, the "dark horse" candidate for the Labour leadership, won and won big. With a landslide in the first round, this unassuming antiwar socialist crushed the opposition, particularly the Blairite opposition.For the first time in decades, socialism is back on the agenda--and for the first time in Labour's history, it controls the leadership. The party machine couldn't stop him. An almost unanimous media campaign couldn't stop him. It is as if their power, like that of the Wizard of Oz, was always mostly illusion. Now Corbyn has one chance to convince the public to support his reforming ambitions.Where did he come from, and what chance does he have? This book tells the story of how Corbyn's rise was made possible by the long decline of Labour and a deep crisis of British democracy. It surveys the makeshift coalition of trade unionists, young and precarious workers, and students, who rallied to Corbyn. It shows how a novel social media campaign turned the media's "Project Fear" on its head, making a virtue of every accusation they threw at him. And finally it asks, with all the artillery that is still ranged against Corbyn, and given the crisis-ridden Labour Party that he has inherited, what it would mean for him to succeed.

From Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey, and a vivid respect for the natural world. This collection of essays chronicles his ecological awakening and brings his radical perspective to the spectre of climate collapse.

Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is on route to apocalypse