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How Leo Panitch touched the lives of students, scholars and activists.

Alain Badiou gets to grips with the current political moment, and proposes that we are on the cusp of a new epoch: a new mass communism.

An excerpt from Leo Panitch's last book, written with Colin Leys.

Aditya Bahl protests against the continued imprisonment of the Marxist poet, Varavara Rao, and examines how the current cycle of rightwing repression is part of a much longer political history, shaped by the changing relationship between the Indian state and capitalism. 

Looking at the pandemic in its wider political context.

A response to the debate on terrorism and war: the need to avoid escalating forms of repression in the face of attacks by using justice and the rule of law rather than violence.

Matt Kerr, a former postal worker and current union organiser, on the value of post and the parallels between his experiences and Long Live the Post Horn! 

Publishing for our 50th anniversary.

Our top 20 books on activism and anti-capitalist resistance, the perfect introduction to left politics.

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Verso Books talks to David Roediger about his work on the intersections of race and class in American society, and his latest book. 

Shigraf Zahbi remembers the great Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, on the anniversary of his death.