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FREE EBOOK: Property Will Cost Us the Earth

Should we start blowing up pipelines, occupying coal mines, and destroying property to address global climate change?

Half-Earth Socialism’s Five Book Plan

The authors present their Five Book Plan for imagining a utopian eco-socialist future – or a future at all.

Verso Book Club: April, May, June

See what we have coming up for Verso Book Club members.

Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World by Jonathan Crary

"If there is to be a liveable and shared future on our planet, it will be a future offline, uncoupled from the world-destroying systems and operations of 24/7 capitalism." – Jonathan Crary

Earth Day: A Verso Reading List

Radical political solutions to the climate crisis.

Understanding Russia: a Verso Reading List

Perspectives on Russia's history and the wider geopolitical landscape, featuring Tony Wood, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Ilya Budraitskis, and more.

“It’s Just Too Hard to Organize Retail.”

As part of our series on book worker organizing, David Gutsche, who works at Half Price Books in Roseville, Minnesota, talks about the process and pitfalls of workplace organizing.

Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese

“A must read for post-capitalists and those who care about the climate crisis.” – Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism

The Dehumanisation of Autistic People Must End

Jodie Hare argues that the public perception of autism needs to be radically revised through a better understanding of neurodivergence.

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Russia without Putin
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Authors

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Judith Butler

“As a strategy of resistance and protest, nonviolence is often seen as passive and resolutely individual. Butler’s philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic.” – The New York Times

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Angela Y. Davis
“For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” – James Baldwin
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Tariq Ali

“Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist.” — Observer

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Vivian Gornick

“Gornick’s language is so fresh and so blunt; it’s a quintessentially American voice, and a beautiful one.” – Dwight Garner, New York Times

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Marlowe Granados

“Marlowe Granados writes with a delicious joy and confidence.... a pleasure to read.” – Sheila Heti

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Walter Rodney

“If Walter Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could have not been more wrong.” – Angela Davis

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    ‘The situation is not desperate’

    As his latest book Revolution is published, the Italian historian Enzo Traverso discusses the French presidential election and the uses that the left can make of the past to imagine its future.

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    Who do the police protect?

    Ben Smoke interviews Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone, authors of Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest.

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