Verso Summer Reading
Spend your summer dreaming about a world without police, borders, or work. All our beach reading is 50% off until June 24!
1968: An End and a Beginning for Mexico
William Booth on 1968 in Mexico: "1968… my watchtower, my bloody subway carriage… my gigantic rainy day… the timeship from which I can observe [my] entire life and times… such as they are."
Rethinking Wealth: it’s time to create the UK’s first Citizen’s Wealth Fund
For much of the 20th century there was a general trend towards greater wealth equality. That is now set in reverse, with wealth much more unequally distributed than incomes. How we can solve his crisis of wealth?
The Soviet '68
In the Soviet Union, 1968 marked the end of reformist optimism and the beginning of a more cynical era – by Giuliano Vivaldi.
Football and Politics in South America
Politicans around the world associate themselves with popular sports, but in South America the relationship between politicians and football has often been much stronger than that.
May 1968 in Senegal
May 1968 in Dakar was a defining moment in the political history of Senegal. The protests were violently suppressed, the poor neighbourhoods in the vicinity of the university were immediately set ablaze, and the only existing workers' union called for a full-scale strike. For three days Senegal was engulfed in riots and scenes of plundering.
A Turning Point for the Sandinistas: Nicaragua’s 1968
In 1968, Carlos Fonseca and the FSLN adopted a new strategic approach, laying the groundwork for the 1979 revolution.
Walter Rodney and the Question of Power
Walter Rodney, the great Marxist historian and activist, was killed on June 13th 1980 by a bomb in his native Guyana. In this essay by CLR James, originally published by Race Today in 1983, discusses Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.
