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Our Autumn 2019 Catalogue, jam packed with hot takes, current analysis and our new Verso Fiction Imprint! 

Since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, the language of treason has returned to British political discourse - notably so with the recent video footage of soldiers in Afghanistan firing at a picture of Corbyn and Nigel Farage's claims that he would ‘pick up a rifle’ if Brexit was not delivered. In this article, Eleanor Penny analyses what it at stake in this new language of treason and what that means for British politics and society.

In this striking new foreword—extracted in full here—Angela Davis considers the legacy of Walter Rodney and his seminal How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

Kevin Ochieng Okoth celebrates the work and legacy of radical Guyanese historian and revolutionary Walter Rodney.

Walter Rodney, the great Marxist historian and activist, was killed on June 13th 1980 by a bomb in his native Guyana. In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.

Stone Men explores how Palestinian labour built the land of Israel, and how to use this history in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

Tariq Ali on the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange earlier today.

Four landmark texts of political theory by David Harvey are now 50% off!

George Souvlis interviews Enzo Traverso on the emergence of far-right movements across the European continent, drawing on Traverso's extensive body of work since the 1990s.

On the latest Suite (212) on Resonance FM, Juliet Jacques talks to Brian Eno, about new music, new technology, neoliberalism, and the responsibilities of artists in 2019.

March saw attacks on Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar for expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine and for criticising the outsized U.S. political preoccupation with the Israeli state. In this article, Sophia Azeb reads the targeting of Omar through the work of the late poet and activist June Jordan, and argues that only by bearing witness can we hold the state to account.

Paratroopers in Kabul recently provoked controversy by filming themselves using an image of Jeremy Corbyn for target practice. In this piece, Tariq Ali placed the incident in the context of the establishment's fears of having Corbyn as Prime Minister.