News – Verso

Cat and Mouse: The Copernican Inversion Outside Work

The history of monetary scams – from the coin clipping shown in the recent BBC drama The Gallow’s Pole, to the Spanish Anarchist and bricklayer who forged millions of travellers cheques in the 1960s and 1970s – shows how workers' resistance is still key to capitalist development.
The grey market of Twitch streams

Twitch Bits are money-ish, and they are far more than the sum of their worth.
Frantz Fanon and the psychiatry of the colonised subject.

“Independence, he hoped, would produce the spiritual and material conditions for the emergence of a new, decolonised subject.”
The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx

In this interview, Isabelle Garo expounds on her work in Karl Marx à 20 ans, de la colère au communisme, speaking about the young Marx, revolutionary politics, and what Marx has to offer young socialist organizers today.
The Conservative Party’s decline might be one it never recovers from.

“The smart money is on the Tories falling into one of those episodic sea-change moments like 1945 and 1997.”
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The Populist Tactic

"The internet has simply exacerbated the pre-existing trends of the neoliberal period. But at the same time, the internet is not solely a means of communication. It is a social form—a type of association or community, or a machine to generate 'imagined communities.'"
A letter to Cybele: Goddess of thresholds, transitions, and street raves.

"If you’ll pardon the anachronism: you have always had a special relation to us t-girls.”
Talking shit

What links Karl Marx, William S. Burroughs, Dalit struggles in India and the Yetties' famous Muckspreader Song? Ed Emery writes on the centrality of excrement, both metaphorical and literal, to the modern world.
Listening to The People’s History of Scotland

Launching a new history podcast, from the author of The People’s History of Scotland, Chris Bambery.
Pandora’s Box | History Made Conscious

The opening of pop culture, literature, the arts, aesthetics and all of intellectual life to Marxist view in the late twentieth century marked bold and disruptive possibilities for feminist thought.
Colonizing Kashmir: Interview with Hafsa Kanjwal

Interview with Hafsa Kanjwal about Indian's decades long occupation of Kashmir