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Discounted books for Passerby Club members!

The Berkeley Faculty Association on how the struggle over the People's Park exposes the structural contradictions of privatization strategies at UC Berkeley.

"Socialists and activists can deny the snake the right to eat democracy, kill the planet, imprison and harm us, destroy our ability to care for one another." A letter from the editor for Nancy Fraser's Cannibal Capitalism,a September Verso Book Club pick!

What might it look like for survivors of sexual violence to recover the lived reality that has been stripped from their bodies, to once again take their own words and thoughts seriously? Translators Kieran Aarons and Cédrine Michel write about Elsa Dorlin's Self-Defense.

Etienne Balibar's 1964 critical reflection on Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron's book The Inheritors remains important reading for Marxists today. 

The continued existence of People's Park proves something dangerous: you, too, can seize something from the most powerful people in town, make it into whatever you want, and hold it for half a century. 

One of the most detailed accounts of the operation of prisons in England was published 100 years ago this year. Entitled English Prisons To-day, it provided a powerful indictment of the state of the country’s penal system, and as John Moore writes, it remains as relevant today as when it was written.

How can feminists in the U.S. learn from the succesful feminist struggles of Latin America? Susana Draper and Verónica Gago argue that, in light of the US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe vs. Wade, what is needed is a new cross-border dialogue between feminist movements in the north and south of the American continent.

Historian Enzo Traverso on his latest book, Revolution: An Intellectual History.

A reading list on the changing role of borders and how we consider freedom of movement, globalization, and humanitarian crises across the world.

Here are the books coming out in August!

Recent years have seen a renewed appreciation of the writing of the post-War Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, not least her celebrated books Family Lexicon, All Our Yesterdays and The Dry Heart. Yet, missing in the reading of her work as the laureate of unfulfilling marriages, thwarted relationships and tangled families is both their political context and Ginzburg's fierce commitment to emancipatory politics.