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On Trump's Second Term

Donald Trump has been sworn in as America's 47th president. We sat down with Verso authors and others on the left to discuss what can be expected from his second term.Ā 

Verso Books21 January 2025

On Trump's Second Term

Following the 2024 U.S. Election, we sat down with our authors to discuss Trump's win, what it says about the United States and the far-right movement, and what we can expect from Trump in his second term. Watch the trailer below:

Every day this week we'll release another video in the series (watch them all below or on our YouTube channel here). These videos featureĀ Arun Kundnani, Naomi Braine, Noah Kulwin, Natasha Lennard in conversation with Alberto Toscano, and Adam Tooze.

While it's hard to say exactly what the next four years will look like, we do know that they will be years of organized struggle and rebellion. Watch the On Trump's Second TermĀ video series and be sure to check out the reading list at the bottom of this page for a selection of titles that will help us prepare for and understand the next four years.

Arun Kundnani

Arun Kundnani, author of What is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism and The Muslims Are Coming!, describes the failures of the Democratic Party and suggests that the rise of the far-right could be viewed as the War on Terror returning home.

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Naomi Braine

Naomi Braine, author of Abortion Beyond The Law, offers a preview of what the struggle against Trump's administration may look like and outlines the many ways in which activists are able to provide mutual aid to those victimized by the far right.

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Noah Kulwin

Noah Kulwin, co-host of Blowback and From the River to the Sea contributor, joins us to discuss Biden's legacy and talks about the future of American foreign policy under Trump.

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Natasha Lennard and Alberto Toscano

Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life, joins Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis, to discuss the 2024 election and the failure of the Democratic Party to provide a legitimate opposition to the threat of fascism that they were so eager to call out.


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Adam Tooze

Historian Adam Tooze joined us following Trump's win to discuss the policies and promises that proved most relevant in the 2024 election and assesses the state of U.S. hegemony.

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Disaster Nationalism
The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bol...
Late Fascism
The rich archive of twentieth-century debates on fascism can steer a path through an increasingly authoritarian present. Developing anti-fascist theory is an urgent and vital task. From the ā€˜Great ...
What Is Antiracism?
Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and...
Cybernetic Circulation Complex
Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role...
The New Faces of Fascism
What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of viol...
The Authoritarian Personality
What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality, written in the shadow of Fascism and the Holocaust, looked t...
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What Is Antiracism?
Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and...
The Muslims Are Coming!
The new front in the War on Terror is the ā€œhomegrown enemy,ā€ domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United Stat...
Abortion Beyond the Law
Drawing on years of research with activists around the world, sociologist Naomi Braine describes the strategies, politics, and tactics of direct action feminists bringing abortion pills, informatio...
From the River to the Sea
In the final months of 2023, as this ebook is published, Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Israeli officials have repeatedly made their intentions to do so extremely clear; talking of collec...
Being Numerous
An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics todayBeing Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics and personho...
Late Fascism
The rich archive of twentieth-century debates on fascism can steer a path through an increasingly authoritarian present. Developing anti-fascist theory is an urgent and vital task. From the ā€˜Great ...

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