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Walter Rodney: A Lighting Rod for Working Class Black Power

40% off all of Walter Rodney's works in celebration of the publication of Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution!

A guide to our August titles

Here are the books coming out in August!

Ruth Wilson Gilmore on the infrastructure of feeling

An excerpt from Ruth Wilson Gilmore's new essay collection.

Verso Book Club: July, August, September

Receive ALL of our new ebooks every month as well as one or more new books in the mail. All subscribers get 50% off ALL of our books.

Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney’s essays on race, colonialism and Marxism.

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.

Empty Choices

Marion Jones writes on the limits of "choice" in the fight for reproductive justice for all.

Pañuelos Verdes, Acompañamiento, Solidaridad

Naomi Braine writes on the lessons, teachings, and inspiration that Latin American activists can offer us in this moment of crisis in the fight for reproductive justice.

Against Borders

Why we need to get rid of borders.

Books

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Russia without Putin
by Tony Wood
30% off
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The Care Crisis
by Emma Dowling
30% off
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Scorched Earth
by Jonathan Crary
20% off
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The Starmer Project
by Oliver Eagleton
30% off
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Half-Earth Socialism
by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese
20% off
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We Uyghurs Have No Say
by Ilham Tohti
30% off

Authors

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Judith Butler

“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today.” – Cornel West

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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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