5 FREE ebooks on the most urgent questions of our time
Essential reading from our FREE Ebook series, Verso Reports.
We bring you 5 of our most-read FREE ebooks from the Verso Reports series. These collections ask the essential questions of the current moment. What are the new economic ideas that will shape the direction of the left in the years to come? What is the truth behind the claims of antisemitism against Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party? Who owns the city? Who gets to tell stories of sexual assault, and who gets to be heard? And how do we define violence?
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[book-strip index="1" style="buy"]This urgent Verso Report, edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner, brings together the most rigorous and penetrating analytical writings on the ‘Labour antisemitism’ affair. They provide between them a sober examination of the strange events that have warped British politics since 2015 and an informed basis for Labour as well as kindred movements to draw lessons for the future.
[book-strip index="2" style="buy"]In the words of Jeremy Corbyn, this election is a once in a generation opportunity for genuine change. Over the past years our authors at Verso – experts in their fields, passionate advocates for change, leading commentators - have been looking at the causes of the crisis as well as developing some of the ideas and strategies that may become part of this necessary disruption. In this eBook we have collected an array of the key ideas, arguments and provocations to help you to think through the issues.
[book-strip index="3" style="buy"]In this special Verso Report, developed in conjunction with Autonomy, some of the most important left-wing economists and policy makers at work today outline the new economic ideas that will shape the direction of the left in the years to come. From Labour’s “ownership agenda”, moving beyond neoliberalism’s fixation on private ownership towards collective ownership of society’s productive assets, and the position of unions in society, to plans to reduce the time we all spend at work, and new ecological imperatives for the entire economy, The New Economy Starter Pack is a vital resource for those who want a wide-ranging introduction to the new and transformative economic agenda of the left.
[book-strip index="4" style="buy"]The powerful wave of rage fuelling #MeToo has finally refocused public attention on sexual harassment and sexual violence and starkly posed questions of power, of feminism, and of politics. How do we define violence? How do we discuss and experience sex? Who gets to tell stories of sexual assault, and who gets to be heard? How impoverished is our language for describing the intersection of power, desire, and violence? What is the relationship between individual struggles and collective protest? What do we do with the abusers? In short, this moment has recalled a much older question: how do we get free?
[book-strip index="5" style="buy"]In 1968, the French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre wrote “Le Droit a la Ville” (“The Right to the City”), which has become one of the most essential texts in radical geography and urban studies. It transformed the way we think about urban life and the right to make and remake our cities, and ourselves. Fifty years on, the question of who is the city is for, and why, is more urgent than ever.
