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FREE STUDENT EBOOKS!

Download before September 30th: includes Perry Anderson, Chantal Mouffe, Walter Rodney, and more.

Verso Books28 September 2020

FREE STUDENT EBOOKS!

Throughout September we've been giving away key ebooks from our Back to University/School reading lists. From today, until September 30th (23:59 EDT), you can download them all FOR FREE!

Expand your knowledge of left theory with 40% off ALL our student reading: see more here! (ends September 30th).

Click on the ebook tabs below and "add to cart". Once you have completed the check out process the ebooks will be in your account library to access and download.

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Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into this concise and tightly argued manifesto: analyzing the varieties of anticapitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the foundations for a society dedicated to human flourishing. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century is an urgent and powerful argument for socialism, and an unparalleled guide to help us get there. 

See all our Critical Theory reading here.

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In this classic work published in the heady days of anti-colonial revolution, Groundings with My Brothers follows the global circulation of emancipatory ideas, from the black students of North America to the Rasta counterculture of Jamaica and beyond. Having inspired a generation of revolutionaries, this new edition of Walter Rodney's work will re-introduce the book to a new political landscape that it helped shape, with reflections from leading scholar-activists.

See all the books on our Decolonise your Bookshelf reading list here.

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Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history. Work: The Last 1,000 Years will open readers’ eyes to an issue much thornier and more complex than most people imagine, one which will be around as long as basic human needs and desires exist.

See all our Work and Automation student reading here!

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This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. A classic work by Perry Anderson.

See our Western Marxist Theory reading here.

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Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and continues to inform the direction of left politics. In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy misunderstands the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts because of its inadequate conception of politics.

See all our Political Theory student reading here.

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These free ebooks will end on September 30th at 23:59 EDT. Get 40% off ALL our student reading also!

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solid...
The Groundings With My Brothers
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, th...
Work

Work

Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history ...
Considerations on Western Marxism
This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Ru...
The Return of the Political
Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and continues to inform the direction of left politics. In t...