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2025: End of Year Highlights

Highlights from Verso’s publishing, including books on the Global South, Palestine, Marxist theory, and more!

28 November 2025

2025: End of Year Highlights

Featuring new books from Andreas Malm, Cory Doctorow, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, stock up on these essential reads!

The Verso End of Year Sale
20% off when you buy 2 books
30% off when you buy 3 books
40% off when you buy 4 books
50% off when you buy 5 books
Sale ends at 11:59pm EST on January 2nd 2026. 

We bundle the ebook editions of our books with all print purchases, so you can gift the print copy and start reading the ebook yourself straight away!

If you'd like to receive your order in time for the holidays, please take note of the ordering cutoff dates.

Verso’s Southern Questions

This series features first-hand accounts written by participants in the process of decolonisation in the Global South and its aftermath.

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The Fight for a Free Palestine

Featuring Verso’s Palestine Pamphlets, a classic of Palestinian fiction, and an urgent collection on the nature of apartheid. 

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America and the American War Machine

These books examine America and its war machine, how we wound up in the era of ‘forever wars’, and how we can resist.

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Radical Histories

We must learn from previous attempts at revolution around the world. These books will change how you think about the transformative moments in history, both big and small.

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Fighting in a World on Fire

In the end, nothing can absolve us of responsibility for our planet and each other.

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Marxist Theory and Philosophy

Books on existentialism, neofeudalism, Indigenous communism, and more.

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The Words of Radical Thinkers

Including a statesman and Member of Parliament for over fifty years, one of the last century’s most influential historians, and world-renowned figures of contemporary politics.

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Verso Fiction

Verso Fiction offers uncompromisingly intelligent and beautiful books from international and revolutionary voices.

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Finance and Economics

What happens now that the regulatory institutions that once restrained the financial sector’s excesses have collapsed.

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Antiracism, anti-ableism, and the construction of the 'other'

The origins of the racial myths and sociocultural representations of disability that are used to divide and oppress us.

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Sex, Gender, and Reproductive Labour

How do Good Mother myths hurt us all? How does capitalism exploit housewives? And how have intersex people been harmed to ease parental anxieties?

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Broken Britain: The Housing Crisis and the Political Crisis

What can we learn from the history of public housing in the UK, and where do we go from the abject failure of Starmer’s Labour government?

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Art, Aesthetics, and Storytelling

Featuring new editions of the works of John Berger, one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years.

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  • War and Money

    War and Money

    Maurizio Lazzarato’s War and Money explores the connections between capitalist expansion, international economic conflict, and war, via an analysis of the imperialism of the American dollar. He exa...
  • Homeland
    For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas, Americans found themselves living in two worl...
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  • Your Party

    Your Party

    Your Party sees leading figures make the case for Britain’s major new political project, laying out the challenges ahead and how to surmount them. Oliver Eagleton interviews Zarah Sultana MP; Leann...
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  • Eviction
    Grounded in personal experience, Eviction uncovers a hidden history of housing injustice and working-class resistance in what has become a perennial battleground for social conflict in modern Brita...

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