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Written by Aymeric Monville.
Translated by Roger Plutôt.
ISBN-13: 9798182782524 (Softcover)
128 pages
Publication Date: 16 October 2026
Part of the Anti-Imperialist Marxism (AIM) Series.
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What are we to make of Nietzsche’s versatility? Championed by anarchists, Nazis, post-modernists, liberals and leftists alike, his uses appear to be endless—but what does the constant reappearance and recuperation mean in political terms? Can his thought really serve all the diverse and contradictory ends of his many admirers?
In The Poverty of Left Nietzscheanism Aymeric Monville takes up this question with characteristic wit and perceptiveness. Focussing on the question of Nietzsche’s purported “Left” cheerleaders in France—Camus, Bataille, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida among others—Monville argues that the “eternal return” of Nietzsche is a symptom and cause of the pernicious irrationalism, individualism, and anti-communist consensus that, in his view, now runs from the Western Left to the far right.
Monville asserts Nietzsche—and those that take up his mantle—have only ever served as a weapon with which to undermine the materialist tradition, and ultimately, the entire tradition of thought descending from Marxism and the workers’ movements.
From the introduction by Gabriel Rockhill:
Monville… provides the reader not only with a deep understanding of the Nietzschean legacy and elements for a counter-history of French theory, but it also develops an insightful indictment of the dominant capitalist ideologies while clearly articulating the political path forward.
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ISBN-13: 9798182782296 (Softcover)
146 pages
20USD / 15GBP / 18EUR
Publication Date: 30 Sep 2026
RED HORIZONS Issue 1 is a product of the rising internationalist tide. In response to the depravities of imperialist militarism. suffocating state repression. and increasingly catastrophic ecological breakdown millions around the globe are breaking ranks and searching for an alternative. Iskra Books' new journal aims to serve as a practical tool for this moment-in the hands of activists. workers. scholars (within and beyond the academy). and all who carry forward the internationalist legacy of the workers' movement. We aim to build a space where a global community of communist scholar-activist-artists can come together. working together to create the theoretical and creative weapons to support liberatory movements around the world.
Art
kinografika @penandrifle
Katie Ries
Amy Matsushita-Beal
chimeraxmachina
J.K. Hale
Articles
The Transitional Mode of Production:
In a Capitalist World Heading Towards Socialism
Torkil Lauesen
Beneath the Wire:
Indigenous Worlds and the Making of Empire
Caitlyn Lee-Mei-Jin Merry
Sex and Gender in the longue durée:
Reification and the Dialectics of Liberation
Alessandro Serra Zancan
Class and the Earliest Christians:
An Intervention Against Certain Illusions
Chrissy M.E. Hansen
Women’s Work and Imperialism’s Decline:
The Material Basis of Attacks on Women & LGBTQ People in the US
Serena Sojic-Borne
Containment:
The First Indochina War and Yunnan Anti-communist National Salvation Army, 1949–1954
Massimo Siro Andolfatto
Poetry
Aida Noor Habib
Jacob Bridges
Julian Tuwim (translated by Patricia Manos)
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Written by Daniel Brooks
ISBN-13: 9798295735318 (Softcover)
86 pages
Publication Date: 29 July 2026
Part of the Red Poetry Series.
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4 My Peoples is a powerful, poetic call to arms from the belly of the empire. Daniel Brooks’ urgent words tell of drone warfare, surveillance states, and the fascist roots of American power, while refusing despair and finding rhythm in resistance.
Seeking strength and meaning through connecting with those that have gone before, 4 My Peoples shows how poetry can still bite, still organize, and speak to and for the people rather than about them.
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The final work of Domenico Losurdo, one of the foremost philosophers and historians of Marxism of the modern era. The Communist Question: History and Future of an Idea continues and develops the critique that began in Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn (2025).
In the wake of the USSR’s dissolution, Marxism, in particular the variant Losurdo identifies as “Western Marxism,” has entered a seemingly irreversible crisis. Persuasively arguing that this outcome is not inevitable, Losurdo undertakes a non-apologetic historical and philosophical evaluation of the Soviet experience and of Marxism in its entirety. Extending the inquiry, and with an eye on contemporary developments such as Marxist theory and practice in the People’s Republic of China, Losurdo assesses the theoretical and practical prospects Marxism retains and asks what it can build in the future.
Part of the Anti-Imperialist Marxism (AIM) Series.
Written by Josef Stalin
ISBN-13: 9798182841177 (Softcover)
ISBN-13: 9798182841283 (Hardcover)
338 pages
Publication Date: 13 November 2026
Part of The Collected Works of Josef Stalin
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The Collected Works of Stalin Volume 8 covers the period of January–November 1926, the majority of a year in which Stalin further consolidated Leninism with a strong theoretical defense, against the “United Opposition" bloc, led by Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev, through texts such as ‘Concerning Questions of Leninism’, ‘The Opposition Bloc in the C.P.S.U.(B.)’. Stalin’s interventions argued for the necessity of ideological and organizational unity of the party, under conditions of capitalist encirclement, against the “capitulationist” line of the Opposition.
This volume also further covers the ongoing and expanding process of socialist industrialization, including the importance of a strong worker-peasant alliance, and the necessity of “socialist accumulation”, covered in the report “The Economic Situation of the Soviet Union and the Policy of the Party.”
International questions are also considered, with contemporaneous analysis on the 1926 General Strike in Britain, the coup d’etat in Poland of the same year, and the burgeoning revolutionary situation in China.
Stalin’s Works are an essential resource for activists, scholars, and anyone involved in history of the communist movement. Through engaging with the real history of the 20th Century, readers can adapt and apply historical lessons to contemporary situations. Volume 8 asks important questions regarding the practice of building socialism, and what appropriate praxis looks like within the organization working towards that end.
Written by Josef Stalin
ISBN-13: 9798182841078 (Softcover)
ISBN-13: 9798182841092 (Hardcover)
346 pages
Publication Date: 13 November 2026
Part of The Collected Works of Josef Stalin
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The Collected Works of Stalin Volume 7 covers the year 1925, a pivotal year in which important decisions and progress were made towards the development of socialist industrialization, in the face of capitalist encirclement. This year was also important in establishing Stalin's vision for the country, in the face of various forms of opposition. Arguing against forms of Trotskyism and Zinovievism, which are characterized as "defeatist", the decision to focus on industrial development was ratified at The Fourteenth Congress of the Bolshevik Party, which took place towards the end of the year.
Other questions regarding the character of the Soviet Union's development path are also covered in this collection; the relationship between the working class and the peasantry; international women's day; the role of youth movements; international relations; propaganda; among others. This collection also contains considerations on the situation and tasks of Communist Parties around the world, under the conditions of the post-WW1 partial stabilization of capitalism. "The Political Tasks of the University of the Peoples of the East" in particular contains much that is of interest regarding the international communist and decolonizing movements of the 20th century.
The critical republication of Stalin's Works serves activists, scholars, and those interested in history of the communist movement-with lessons for contemporary application, as well as the dispelling of historical falsities. Volume 7 goes deeper on questions of what development of a socialist project actually means in the real world, which must be of interest to all those who seek to move history forward.
Containing many of Connolly's most beloved and essential texts, this collection brings his radical thought to light. These writings, foundational for Irish national liberation, contain lessons which serve liberation movements around the world.
The Complete Shorter Works of James Connolly, meticulously edited and introduced by historian Conor McCabe, feature important publications such as Erin's Hope, Socialism Made Easy, and Socialism and Nationalism. These pamphlets, designed as educational tools for the masses, expertly connected the Irish national liberation struggle to that of a socialist worker's republic. This collection also includes Connolly's works not only as an author, but also as an editor. Bringing together writings from the 1798 rebellion, including rebel songs, these works showcase Connolly's part in the centuries-long struggle for true independence from the British Empire. This book also contains newly discovered writings from Connolly from 1889-1898.
Together, these works form an essential part of a comprehensive and unadulterated oeuvre of Connolly's writings, edited and corrected, with substantial introductions and contextualization by Conor McCabe. Designed to support the resistance of those fighting imperialism everywhere, this indispensable collection shows why Connolly is considered required reading for revolutionaries around the globe.
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Edited by Conor McCabe
ISBN-13: 9798182786669 (Softcover)
ISBN-13: 9798182786713 (Jacketed Hardcover)
432 pages
Publication Date: 30 October 2026
Ali Kadri’s essential investigation into the role of waste (of people and nature) in capitalism.
“Destruction becomes the principal commodity produced by capital. Militarism will lead accumulation, which will theoretically demolish any limit to capital.”
Part of the Anti-Imperialist Marxism (AIM) Series.