The Balfour Declaration and its Consequences
Today marks the 100-year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Here we present an essay by Avi Shlaim that examines the declaration and its historiography.
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Verso Radical Diary 2018
Our best-selling radical diary is back!
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Barrage to Catalonia
The 1 October referendum and its aftermath has exposed the extent of the democratic crisis in Spain — and Europe generally — rather than provided an answer to it.
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Video: Jacques Rancière, Giuseppina Mecchia, David Bell, Marina van Zuylen, and Suzanne Guerlac — Aesthetics and the Question of Disciplinarity
Rancière elaborates on some of the ideas developed within his latest book, Les Bords de la fiction.
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Marxism and Public Law
Marxists should attend to the specific ways in which public law both conditions and is conditioned by social power and political activity.
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Disaster Communism
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.
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Women in the New Left
Reflections by Sheila Benson, Dorothy Wedderburn, and Lynne Segal on the experiences of women within Britain's New Left.
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Who are the new poor? And what can we do about it?
In these videos Stephen Armstrong looks at the erosion of the welfare state since the original Beveridge report in 1942, and builds up a shocking picture of what poverty looks like today.
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Sinking Feelings: Of Glaciers, Zombies, and Catastrophic Affect
Official assessments radically underestimate the magnitude of warming experienced by city dwellers today. To live in a large city today is to be on the edge of the most rapidly changing environmental conditions ever experienced by humans.
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Thank God, It’s Over: Eight years of Wolfgang Schäuble
Schäuble drove euro nations to the brink of collapse and allowed the German state to record an enormous current account surplus at exactly the wrong time.
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Reagan at the Movies
A previously unpublished 1986 essay by filmmaker Thom Andersen, excerpted from a new collection of his writings.
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Five Book Plan: Cities and Climate Change — Five Years After Hurricane Sandy
On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Ashley Dawson provides a select list of books and resources for assessing the history and future of cities facing climate change.
