First Annual Red Day Flash Sale!
It's the first iteration of Verso's made up holiday - RED DAY! - where we're celebrating the efforts of our comrades around the world with a one day super sale of our 'red' literature.
Check out our selection below - all 50% off with FREE shipping and bundled ebooks where available until midnight ET tonight!
These books are sure to keep the revolutionary spirit alive in you!
THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE 50% OFF TODAY ONLY!
Radical Thinkers Set 9
Reissues of classic second-wave socialist-feminist texts
Straight Sex
by Lynne Segal
“Once again, Lynne Segal cuts through feminist ambivalence about sex with great intelligence, verve, and courage ... a stunning manifesto of sexual liberation.” – Barbara Ehrenreich
“A passionate and highly informative book.” – Times Literary Supplement
The Anti-Social Family
by Michele Barrett and Mary Mcintosh
“An extremely brave, and with the benefit of hindsight, what must appear to be a very daring critique of the family.” – Sociology
Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
by Sheila Rowbotham
“Rowbotham is one of Britain’s most important, if unshowy, feminist thinkers, and a key figure of the second wave.” – Melissa Benn, Guardian
Woman's Estate
by Juliet Mitchell
“The quality of Mitchell’s thinking is revealed by her ability both to be critical of certain aspects of the women’s movement, and yet keep herself free of the bitterness and disillusion of radicals of an older generation.” – Richard Sennett, New York Review of Books
Jacobin series:
Strike for America
by Micah Uetricht
“Brilliant political analysis.” – The Nation
“A short, accessible guide to one of the most important and inspiring events of our time.” – Brian Jones, member of the Movement of Rank-and-File Educators
Playing the Whore
by Melissa Gira Grant
“An important contribution to debates around sex and work, and deserves to be read by anyone who wants to get beyond tired and damaging understandings of both.”” – Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman
Utopia or Bust
by Benjamin Kunkel
“For anyone who cares about historical necessity, the crisis of capitalism, and our fate.” – Rachel Kushner
“Playful and unfailingly lucid...the book is one of the most enjoyable pieces of Marxist criticism in many years.” – The Nation
The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky
by Isaac Deutscher
Classic biography of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, now collected in a single volume
The Actuality of Communism
by Bruno Bosteels
“A beautifully written work which is a must for everyone interested in what’s left of the contemporary Left.” – Slavoj Žižek
The Idea of Communism
Edited by Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Žižek
An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communism.
The Idea of Communism 2
by Slavoj Zizek
Key theorists discuss the future of communism in New York.
The Communist Postscript
by Boris Groys
“One of the most astute commentators on the art scene today.” – New Left Review
“Groys combines revelatory analysis with philosophical questions that go to the heart of cultural production today.” – Iwona Blazwick
Marxism in the United States: A History of the American Left
by Paul Buhle
“Cogent and provocative ... this single volume challenges the entire edifice of modern US cultural and political history.” – Monthly Review
They Can't Represent Us!
by Marina Sitrin
It's a fierce book, a hopeful book, a brilliant book, and a necessary book, in this age when libraries are also arsenals of direct democracy.” – Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell
“The most substantial and comprehensive work on workers’ control and self-management today.” – Gary Younge, on Dario Azzellini’s Ours to Master and to Own
The S Word
by John Nichols
“[A] search for the legacy of our homegrown radicals.” – Washington Post
“A chilling reminder of how much rich American history has been erased by shallow messaging. A crucial book.” – Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo
The Communist Manifesto
by Frederick Engels and Karl Marx
“As a force for change, its influence has been surpassed only by the Bible. As a piece of writing, it is a masterpiece.” – Guardian
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
by James Meek
“Do yourself a favour: read Private Island and find out what has really happened in Britain over the past 20 years.” – John Gray, Guardian
Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
by Paul Mason
Eyewitness reporting and shrewd analysis from the many centers of the global movement for liberation.
The Communist Horizon
by Jodi Dean
An innovative work of pressing relevance, The Communist Horizon offers nothing less than a manifesto for a new collective politics.
Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait
Edited by Francis Mulhern
Voices of Sartre, Lukács, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with New Left Review.
The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
by Murray Bookchin
Edited by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor
Preface by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Murray Bookchin has brought illumination and insight, original and provocative ideas, and inspiring vision. His new collection on radical democracy carries forward this lifetime of great achievement.” – Noam Chomsky
“Murray Bookchin is one of the most original and important radical thinkers and writers of the modern era.” – Chris Hedges, author of Wages of Rebellion
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Resnick, Nikil Saval, Eli Schmitt, and Astra Taylor
“Both analytical and full of vivid experience.” –Observer
Remember, this is a one-day flash sale only! So it will end at midnight ET!