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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisiswww.theguardian.com In his new book, Tad DeLay suggests there is no rosy roadmap to go forward – but there are things we can do
The Novel of Lenin: Chapter Threewww.versobooks.com Chapter Three 1895-1900: Travels to Paris and Germany, the Creation of a Journal At the turn of the century, Vladimir is authorized to travel. In Paris, he encounters Marx’s son-in-law, Lafargue. Then...
The Novel of Lenin: Chapter Twowww.versobooks.com Chapter Two 1885-1893: The Death of the Brother, Marxist Circles, Nicholas II Ascends to the Throne Vladimir is an adolescent when his older brother Aleksandr is arrested by the Tsarist authorities, j...
Losing Strategies: Spinoza and Marx - Notes - e-fluxwww.e-flux.com Jason Read shows how Spinoza and Marx illuminate the passivity of laboring subject.
The Novel of Leninwww.versobooks.com We’re excited to announce a new nine-part blog series: The Novel of Lenin by Joseph Andras, to mark the centenary of Lenin’s death. We will be releasing a new installment of Andras’s biographical mic...
New Works of Theory in Contextwww.versobooks.com Theory never takes place in a void. The greatest advances often come through work that finds a way of engaging critically with arguments of the past, building on them and putting a new spin on the dee...
The Enigma of Simone Weilwww.versobooks.com Simone Weil is one of the twentieth century’s most compelling – and contradictory – figures. And her reputation continues to grow. Recent years have seen a number of writers return to Weil for inspira...
Episode 128: Breaking Things At Work (with Gavin Mueller) - Hotel Bar Podcasthotelbarpodcast.com The HBS hosts discuss how the Luddites were right about why we hate our jobs.
Radio archiveswww.leftbusinessobserver.com Archive of Doug Henwood's radio shows.
Solidarity is Stronger than Repression - Freedom for Boris Kagarlitskywww.versobooks.com Boris Kagarlitsky, renowned Russian Marxist writer-activist, had an unexpected appeal trial on February 13, 2024. The prosecutors were seeking to overturn the results of his two day trial in December ...
Claiming the City wins IHLA Book of the Yearwww.versobooks.com Shelton Stromquist has been awarded the The International Labor History Association's 2023 Book of the Year award for Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism. Fro...
Solidarity is Stronger than Repression - Freedom for Boris Kagarlitskywww.versobooks.com Boris Kagarlitsky, renowned Russian Marxist writer-activist, had an unexpected appeal trial on February 13, 2024. The prosecutors were seeking to overturn the results of his two day trial in December ...
Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis – reviewwp.me In Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis, Alberto Toscano unpacks the rise of contemporary far-right movements that have emerged amid capitalist crises and appropriated liberal …
The Reckoningwww.versobooks.com The Age of Revolution (1776–1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a ‘Second Slavery’ surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a syste...
What Taylor Swift Taught Me About Fascism - Notes - e-fluxwww.e-flux.com Jason Read on Alberto Toscano and micro-fascism.
Radio archiveswww.leftbusinessobserver.com Archive of Doug Henwood's radio shows.
Immediacy, Spring 2024shop.tank.tv Anna Kornbluh’s book Immediacy; or the Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso, 2024) is a dazzlingly incisive diagnosis of our dominant aesthetic mode of urgency, flow, frictionlessness, thinness and ins...
The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracywww.versobooks.com Historian Kjell Östberg presents the first comprehensive study of one of the most influential political movements of our time. Swedish Social Democracy was an inspiration to young socialists around t...
Immediacy [Excerpt] • Protean Magazineproteanmag.com Republished here is an excerpt from Anna Kornbluh's "Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism," a sure to be controversial analysis of the ways in which the immersion of the circulation economy has changed everything from writing to video to theory itself.
Immediacy [Excerpt] • Protean Magazineproteanmag.com Republished here is an excerpt from Anna Kornbluh's "Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism," a sure to be controversial analysis of the ways in which the immersion of the circulation economy has changed everything from writing to video to theory itself.
The Automatic Fetishwww.versobooks.com The Automatic Fetish recreates Marx's analysis of capital, step-by-step, through the material compiled posthumously as Capital, Volume three. Identifying the critique of value as the central through-l...
The Automatic Fetishwww.versobooks.com The Automatic Fetish recreates Marx's analysis of capital, step-by-step, through the material compiled posthumously as Capital, Volume three. Identifying the critique of value as the central through-l...
Book Review: "The Jail is Everywhere" -- Expansion Plans - The Arts Fuseartsfuse.org The essays in this book are a critical read for folks who might be fighting prison expansion or construction in their neighborhoods.