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“There is no doubt about the need for a radical publisher, particularly in the United States. An alternative point of view is not being offered by the press, television or mainstream publishers. Baker, Publishers’ Weekly

Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing by Alva Gotby is out now!Our feelings about housing are political,...
05/02/2025

Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing by Alva Gotby is out now!

Our feelings about housing are political, and a grasp of them is essential to solving the housing crisis. Alva Gotby makes clear that solving the housing crisis is about much more than housing stock. It is about revolutionising our everyday lives and labours.

Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we rest, eat, and relax. The home we enjoy can determine our health, life expectancy, and day-to-day well-being. In contrast, the lack of a stable residence c...

Wednesday, February 5th, Marijam Did (author of Everything to Play For) and Robert Kurvitz (lead writer and designer for...
04/02/2025

Wednesday, February 5th, Marijam Did (author of Everything to Play For) and Robert Kurvitz (lead writer and designer for Disco Elysium) will be live on the Verso Books youtube channel playing the original Fallout and discussing its aesthetics, game design, and legacy. Join us @ 12p ET!

Marijam Did (author of Everything to Play For) and Robert Kurvitz (lead writer and designer for Disco Elysium) join each other to discuss—and play—all things...

Adam Hanieh discusses the displacement of Palestinians, the prevalence of the oil industry, and how capitalism operates ...
04/02/2025

Adam Hanieh discusses the displacement of Palestinians, the prevalence of the oil industry, and how capitalism operates in the Gulf states.

Adam Hanieh discusses the displacement of Palestinians, the prevalence of the oil industry, and how capitalism operates in the Gulf states.Professor of Polit...

Erik Olin Wright examines the complex tension between class interest and achieving class objectives.
03/02/2025

Erik Olin Wright examines the complex tension between class interest and achieving class objectives.

Erik Olin Wright examines the complex tension between class interest and achieving class objectives in this excerpt from Class, Crisis, and the State.

Including books on police and prison abolition, the climate crisis, and reproductive justice.Sale ends tomorrow 11:59pm ...
01/02/2025

Including books on police and prison abolition, the climate crisis, and reproductive justice.

Sale ends tomorrow 11:59pm EST!

50% off select titles ends Feb 2nd. Including books on history, art, political theory, abolitin, tech, and more.

Life under capitalism pushes us to consume things quickly - from our food, to our entertainment, to our understanding of...
30/01/2025

Life under capitalism pushes us to consume things quickly - from our food, to our entertainment, to our understanding of world events. These books will allow you to slow down, because political engagement and learning takes time.

50% off select titles ends Feb 2nd. Including books on history, art, political theory, abolitin, tech, and more.

Jean-Paul Sartre sets out the grounds for the verdict that the United States government committed genocide in Vietnam (1...
28/01/2025

Jean-Paul Sartre sets out the grounds for the verdict that the United States government committed genocide in Vietnam (1967).

The following is an excerpt from Vietnam: Imperialism and Genocide. It was written by Sartre in December 1967, in his capacity as President of the International War Crimes Tribunal created by Bertrand Russell. Sartre was charged by the Tribunal with setting out the grounds for its verdict that the U...

Books for decolonising your thought, featuring new works on fighting the French Empire.
27/01/2025

Books for decolonising your thought, featuring new works on fighting the French Empire.

From the policing crisis to the Black Panthers, to intergenerational stories of resistance and the black radical tradition, these books challenge imperial narratives and offer a history of anti-colonial, anti-racist struggle. New Releases: [book-strip index="2" style="buy"] Further Reading: [book-st...

“If capitalism survives by creating monsters that it cannot itself fully control, then those monsters must also have the...
26/01/2025

“If capitalism survives by creating monsters that it cannot itself fully control, then those monsters must also have the capacity to harm capitalism itself. Like Frankenstein’s monster, they might destroy their own master.”

An edited excerpt from The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It) by Michael A. McCarthy.

For the final video in our series on Trump's second term, historian Adam Tooze joins us to discuss the policies and prom...
26/01/2025

For the final video in our series on Trump's second term, historian Adam Tooze joins us to discuss the policies and promises that proved most relevant in the 2024 election and assesses the state of U.S. hegemony.

Following the 2024 U.S. Election, we sat down with Verso authors to discuss the election results, what they say about the United States and the far-right mov...

These books interrogate the fight for free time outside of domestic work and wage labour, our conceptions of radical his...
25/01/2025

These books interrogate the fight for free time outside of domestic work and wage labour, our conceptions of radical histories and futures, the tech enabled culture of speed, and more!

50% off select titles ends Feb 2nd. Including books on history, art, political theory, abolitin, tech, and more.

For our video series on Trump's second term: Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life, join...
25/01/2025

For our video series on Trump's second term: Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life, joins Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis, to discuss the 2024 election and the failure of the Democratic Party to provide a legitimate opposition to the threat of fascism that they were so eager to call out.

Following the 2024 U.S. Election, we sat down with Verso authors to discuss the election results, what they say about the United States and the far-right mov...

A provocative, beautiful and defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer...
24/01/2025

A provocative, beautiful and defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer with North African roots

In Defence of Barbarism: Non-Whites Against the Empire by Louisa Yousfi is out now!

Is social integration all it’s cracked up to be? Not in the defiant view of first-time French author Louisa Yousfi, who herself has North African roots. Taking its inspiration from the leading Algerian writer Kateb Yacine (‘I’m better off not being too cultivated. I have to retain a certain ba...

Noah Kulwin, co-host of Blowback, joined us in November to discuss Biden's legacy and to talk about the future of Americ...
23/01/2025

Noah Kulwin, co-host of Blowback, joined us in November to discuss Biden's legacy and to talk about the future of American foreign policy under Trump.

Following the 2024 U.S. Election, we sat down with Verso authors to discuss the election results, what they say about the United States and the far-right mov...

Steve Bell on drawing the Miners' Strike for the Guardian, 40 years on."An industry has been wilfully destroyed and whol...
23/01/2025

Steve Bell on drawing the Miners' Strike for the Guardian, 40 years on.

"An industry has been wilfully destroyed and whole communities ruined. Innocent men had been labelled criminals for life. People are still suffering the consequences. Will justice forever be denied them?"

Working as a cartoonist within the confines of a national daily newspaper as an independent commentator, right through the entire period of the Miners’ Strike in 1984 and 1985, I was well aware that the miners were faced with relentless, unfair, mendacious and altogether disgraceful treatment by t...

For the next video in our series, Naomi Braine, author of Abortion Beyond The Law, considers the struggle against Trump'...
22/01/2025

For the next video in our series, Naomi Braine, author of Abortion Beyond The Law, considers the struggle against Trump's second administration and details the methods by which support networks around the world have continued to provide mutual aid under far-right regimes.

Following the 2024 U.S. Election, we sat down with Verso authors to discuss the election results, what it says about the United States and the far-right move...

Books of the history of decolonial movements in Africa, and the future of revolutionary politics.
22/01/2025

Books of the history of decolonial movements in Africa, and the future of revolutionary politics.

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

For the first video in our series on Trump's second term, we sat down with Arun Kundnani, author of What is Antiracism? ...
22/01/2025

For the first video in our series on Trump's second term, we sat down with Arun Kundnani, author of What is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism and The Muslims Are Coming!

Kundnani describes the failures of the Democratic Party and suggests that the rise of the far-right can be viewed as the War on Terror returning home.

Following the 2024 U.S. Election, we sat down with Verso authors to discuss the election results, what it says about the United States and the far-right move...

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Hannah Regel introduces her debut novel, The Last Sane Woman, out on July 2nd. Described by Sophie Mackintosh as a "brilliant, slyly funny, and acutely observed meditation", and "disquieting and gorgeous" by Daisy LaFarge. Now available for pre-order: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3203-the-last-sane-woman?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the_last_sane_woman

The time has finally come. Democracy or Bonapartism is out today! https://www.versobooks.com/products/330-democracy-or-bonapartism

New podcast episode featuring a discussion between Anton Jäger and Vincent Bevins on their new books analyzing the 2010s. Available on Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and more. https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast

🚨 New Verso Podcast episode alert 🚨 Don't miss the latest episode of the Verso Podcast with Nancy Fraser and Gargi Bhattacharyya as they discuss the peculiar fact that capitalism is constantly undermining the conditions of its own existence. Links here: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/on-cannibals-and-capitalists-nancy-fraser-gargi-bhattacharyya?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the_verso_podcast&utm_content=season_1_episode_8

This is your nation's history on drugs. Quick Fixes: out now in partnership with Jacobin magazine https://www.versobooks.com/products/2981-quick-fixes

Who Will Build the Ark? OUT TODAY https://www.versobooks.com/products/2917-who-will-build-the-ark

What makes a class traitor or social climber? Engaging with a wide variety of thinkers and writers, from Richard Wright and Annie Ernaux, to Spinoza and Bourdieu, Transclasses puts forth a theory of social non-reproduction - the distinction within distinction. https://www.versobooks.com/products/791-transclasses

Ralph Dutli's masterfully written biography of Osip Mandelstam is out today! https://www.versobooks.com/products/944-osip-mandelstam

Join us for the relaunch of the Verso Podcast, a new series where leading Verso thinkers, activists and authors discuss the big ideas of our time. Full episode: https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast

“As soon as you start talking about handing over power, that’s when the phone calls dry up” On a new episode of the Verso Podcast, Maori activist and human rights advocate Tina Ngata discusses the tokenistic support indigenous people receive when fighting for climate justice. Full episode: https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast

On the first episode of The Verso Podcast Eleanor Penny is joined by Raj Patel and Tina Ngata for a fascinating discussion on the historical roots of exploitation, the impact on our planet, and the fight for justice. https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast

Communism and Strategy - out today! https://www.versobooks.com/products/2666-communism-and-strategy

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