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A Rosa Luxemburg Bookshelf

40% off all our Rosa Luxemburg reading to mark the 150th anniversary of her birth.

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The Care Crisis by Emma Dowling: 30% off

Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go so much further.

The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?

In this episode of the Verso podcast, Emma Dowling discusses her new book with Rachel Holmes.

Verso Book Club: March, April, May

Receive ALL of our new ebooks every month as well as one or more new books in the mail. All subscriptions are now 50% off and all subscribers will also get 50% off ALL of our books.

Rosa Luxemburg, Work in Progress: Interview with Peter Hudis

100 years after the death of Rosa, what is the heritage of her works and activity? Peter Hudis talks to Yurii Colombo.

Emma Dowling examines the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties

Endless commodification, where problems and their solutions pop up on an ever-accelerating conveyor belt of lotions and potions, does little to tackle the underlying problems.

Necessity is the mother of coalition: On Nancy Folbre

Jayati Ghosh discusses Folbre's new book, The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems, and the argument for an intersectional political economy.

Amphibious Capital

Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás analyze the relationship between the land and sea in capitalist production, reproduction, and circulation.

Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy

An online symposium hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of her birth.

The Care Crisis: A letter from the Editor

"What resulted from Emma’s five years of hard work is an exceptional book. It documents not only the consequences of a decade of austerity in Britain, but offers a fresh lens through which to understand the rise of neoliberalism and its mode of governance." –Rosie Warren, editor

Books

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The Care Crisis
by Emma Dowling
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Breaking Things at Work
by Gavin Mueller
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Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us
by Joseph Andras
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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
by Katherine Angel
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The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems
by Nancy Folbre
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The Imperial Mode of Living
by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen
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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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Arundhati Roy
“The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart.” – Alice Walker
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Benedict Anderson
“Everything Anderson wrote was boldly original, challenging assumptions by uncovering a neglected or suppressed voice.” — Guardian
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Sophie Lewis

“Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for.” – Donna Haraway

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    Islamophobia, ‘Islamo-leftism’, (post)fascism

    In an interview with Lucion Nanni, historian Enzo Traverso looks at the current rise of Islamophobia and fascism in Europe today.

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