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Rights List 2013 LUX ÉDITEUR RIGHTS LIST 2013 FRANÇOIS MORIN THE GREAT BLEED AGAINST THE IMMINENT FINANCIAL DISASTER 120 pages On many occasions between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, the kings of France did not hesitate to relieve the State of its debts by using such heavy-handed tactics as imprisoning its creditors, or quite simply putting them to death. Such measures were called “bleeding.” François Morin believes we must take note of these lessons from the past if we want to overcome the imminent financial disaster. What will happen when the global bond bubble bursts? The evils to come may in- clude massive uprisings and the instant disintegration of our economic infrastructure. Neither inflation nor growth will reduce worldwide debt levels. Public debt cancellation is therefore unavoidable, either as a consequence of a tremendous financial shock or as a result of a new system of financing the global economy. Our only hope is to set up this new system immediately: we must bleed finance before it bleeds us! Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Toulouse, François Morin was a member of the Bank of France General Council and the Council of Economic Analysis. Among many books, he recently published A World Without Wall Street (Seagull Books, 2013). LUX ÉDITEUR RIGHTS LIST 2013 2 Alain Deneault, a Doctor of Philosophy from the Université Paris-VIII, teaches ALAIN DENEAULT “critical thinking” in political science at the GOVERNANCE Université de Montréal. He is also the author of Offshore, Tax Havens and the ON TOTALITARIAN MANAGEMENT Rule of Global Crime (The New Press, 2011) 200 pages In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher’s technocrats decided to euphemize the plan to align the State with the interests of private business culture, calling it “governance.” This conceptual coup successfully dressed up neo-liberal brutality in a model of “sound management.” Collectively, we are still paying the price. From that moment on, governing would entail deregulation of the economy, privatization of public services, a client-oriented approach to citizens, and the undermining of unions. Applied to a management or commerce by social groups representing various interests, governance claims to be the art of self-management. Having become standard practice, referred to today at any occasion and from across the political spectrum, its opportunistic malleability is in- creasingly replacing the old terms of politics. In fifty short texts, Alain Deneault demonstrates the progression of this colonization of all areas of society by governance. This is an “anesthe- tizing revolution,” make no mistake: it quietly establishes an era of to- talitarian management. 3 LUX ÉDITEUR RIGHTS LIST 2013 FRANCIS DUPUIS-DÉRI DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF A WORD IN FRANCE AND THE UNITED SATES 456 pages The word “democracy” has become so popular that all political forces claim to represent it. It therefore comes as a surprise that the “founding fathers” of these “modern democracies” associated the idea with chaos, violence and tyrannizing the poor! How did such a radical shift in mea- ning come to occur? Exploring the past discourse of the U.S. and France, the author exposes an amazing political adventure full of confrontation between persona- lities and social forces seeking to control the political systems founded at the end of the eighteenth century. Based on various tracts, manifes- tos, public declarations, newspaper articles and personal letters, this narrative reveals the political manipulation of the term “democracy” by the elite, who gradually hijacked the notion and doctored it up to be- guile the masses. Two centuries later, while the entire planet seems to think that “demo- cracy” (power of the people) is a synonym for the “electoral system” Francis Dupuis-Déri is a professor (delegation of power to a small group of rulers), any manifestation of of political science at the Université true popular power (collective deliberations on common affairs) always du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). meets with the contempt of the elite. Specializing in political thought and social movements, he is the author of numerous works. WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BLACK BLOCS? English rights sold to: Between The Lines (English translation available upon request) 224 pages “The Black Bloc is dead”, declared the anarchists in 2003. But far from the spotlights, Black Blocs still take part in demonstrations, entering into action to criticize and defy the dominant of the world. Masked up, dres- sed in black and forcefully attacking the symbols of capitalism, Black Blocs were transformed into an anti-globalisation media spectacle. This fame, associated with the image of the window-smashing thug, hides a complex reality,interesting to those who dare to make the effort to bet- ter understand the origin of this phenomenon, its dynamics and its goals. The use of violence always takes place within a balance of force, in an ethical and strategic context; and it cannot be summed up as throwing rocks in street protests. This edition of Les Black Blocs lays out the world’s most complete view of the phenomenon of the Black Bloc tactic and lo- cates it within the anarchist tradition of direct action. LUX ÉDITEUR RIGHTS LIST 2013 4 FRANCIS DUPUIS-DÉRI Thomas Déri was born stateless in Paris in 1936 to Jewish parents of AND THOMAS DÉRI Hungarian origin who had immi- grated due to the economic crisis ANARCHISM AS EXPLAINED of 1929. After surviving World TO MY FATHER War II, he dodged the draft at the time of the Algerian War, settling 200 pages in Québec to avoid military service. What is anarchy and what do anarchists want? What better way to answer these questions than a discussion between a curious huma- nist father and a son active in anarchist collectives who has studied the topic? In the course of the conversation, anarchy and democracy are compared, and several figures of anarchism described, along with the main currents of this revolutionary movement. The authors pro- vide examples from history as well as from today’s world. The study also features anarchist criticism of the main systems of domination: the State, capitalism, religion, patriarchy and racism. An original and lively initiation to anarchism. 5 LUX ÉDITEUR RIGHTS LIST 2013 MICHAEL SCHMIDT CARTOGRAPHY OF REVOLUTIONARY ANARCHISM English rights sold to: AK Press 196 pages The post-Soviet anticapitalist movement of the 1990s and 2000s stun- ned commentators the world over by basing many of its ideas and prac- tices on a proletarian movement wrongly considered to have died on the barricades in Barcelona in 1939 – that of revolutionary anarchism. This essay restores to the organised anarchist movement its true histo- rical weight and global reach, by examining its penetration beyond Western Europe and North America into Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, Australasia, and Africa. It sketches its develop- ment over the past 150 years, linking the movement’s fortunes to five waves of working class militancy. Finally, it discusses key theoretical do- cuments produced during those five waves that address the primary question facing all who desire a grassroots-democratic world: how does the militant minority engage with the mass of workers and the poor? A concise history of the significance and global reach of mass- organized anarchism since 1869. Michael Schmidt is a Johannesburg-based African investigative journalist, historian, free press activist, and anarchist militant who is the co-author of the book Black Flame: the Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, Counter-Power Vol.1 (AK Press, USA, 2009). LUX ÉDITEUR RIGHTS LIST 2013 6 JONATHAN MARTINEAU (DIR.) MARXISM AND SOCIAL THEORY. CONTEMPORARY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PERRY ANDERSON TO DAVID McNALLY Perry Anderson, Edward Palmer Thompson, David Harvey, Moishe Postone, Derek Sayer, Simon Clarke, Robert Brenner, Ellen Meiksins Wood and David McNally: nine important thinkers whose growing in- fluence marks a new beginning in Marxist analysis in the social sciences. Each chapter describes the intellectual journey of one of these thinkers and analyzes his or her contribution to a constantly evolving field, thus offering readers an overview of the various forms of contemporary Anglo-Saxon Marxism. This heterogeneous and staunchly antidogma- tic current has common leanings, such as criticism of economic reduc- tionism and increased sensitivity to the historical processes of relationships of domination. The authors gathered between these co- vers historians, sociologists, political scientists, geographers and phi- losophers have each contributed in a unique way to the vast discipline of Marxist thought and historical materialism, which, a century and a half after its founding, continues to grow. 7 LUX ÉDITEUR RIGHTS LIST 2013 VLADIMIR POZNER Vladimir Pozner (1905–1992) was an important writer who valued discretion. A friend of Gorki, he had ties to Babel and Mayakovsky , helping to make Rus- sian literature known in France in the 1920s. His work as a novelist got off to a flying start in the 1930s with Tolstoï est mort and Le Mors aux dents. A militant antifascist, he took refuge in the US during the war. A globe-trotter, story- teller, and pioneer of literary form, Pozner devoted his life and his unique voice to bearing witness to his century. VLADIMIR POZNER REMEMBERS HIS MOTHER AND ALEXANDER BLOK, BERTOLT BRECHT, VIKTOR SHKLOVSKY, JEAN-RICHARD BLOCH, J.R. OPPENHEIMER, DASHIELL HAMMETT, VSEVOLOD IVANOV, BORIS PASTERNAK, ISAAK BABEL, HANNS EISLER, MARC CHAGALL, FERNAND LÉGER, JORIS IVENS, LUIS BUÑUEL, ELSA TRIOLET, CHAPLIN, PICASSO. 256 pages As a novelist in Paris, a Revolution-era poet in Russia, a screenwriter in Hollywood and a reporter all over the world, Vladimir Pozner ex- perienced the twentieth century to the fullest. He knew many of the writers, filmmakers, painters, musicians, scientists, and actors who instilled the world with much of the era’s zeitgeist. And yet he never wrote about himself, or about his relationships with the famous and the infamous.
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