Walter Benjamin's legacy
In this video Esther Leslie and Stuart Jeffries discuss the life and legacy of Walter Benjamin.
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David Harvey talks to Verso Books
The radical intellectual discusses becoming a Marxist, and his latest work on Marx's Grundrisse. -
Emmanuel Macron’s republican order
While the French people strike, protest against, and decry Macron's law raising the pension age, Macron remains unmoved, immune to the people's demands. This, Jacques Rancière argues, inaugurates a new era for the French state: one of brutal police repression. -
The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification
The return of the marble chapters from the British Museum to Greece will be fulfilment for Greece and for world heritage.
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A Conversation with Ernest Mandel
“The fact that I am still alive is really the exception to the rule.”
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In Defense of Sabotage: A response to George Monbiot
Peaceful civil disobedience is not working in the fight against against fossil-fueled climate change. Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, argues that, contrary to George Monbiot's recent claims, the climate struggle requires a diversity of tactics, including property destruction. -
New Left Review 140/141, out now
Aaron Benanav and Tim Barker on the US economy, Hito Steyerl on AI, Grey Anderson on NATO, a previously unpublished early text from Tom Nairn and much more… -
The NUJ speaks out against the arrest of La Fabrique's Foreign Rights Manager
The National Union of Journalists has passed a motion condemning Ernest's baseless arrest in London last month. -
The Cult of Churchill: Tariq Ali & Priyamvada Gopal on the Verso Podcast
On the latest episode of the Verso Podcast, Tariq Ali and Priyamvada Gopal join Eleanor Penny to discuss the life and legacy of Winston Churchill
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Statement by La Fabrique authors
In honour of World Press Freedom Day, we are publishing this statement from La Fabrique's authors in solidarity with La Fabrique's rights manager, Ernest, who was outrageously arrested by UK anti-terrorism police upon his arrival in London from Paris on 17 April. -
The detective as social geographer
How the private eye became key in historicizing France’s recent past in the seventies and eighties. -
A change of strategy
Marx’s texts from the 1850s onwards took a different approach to his previous work: different not only in their style but also their concepts and formats, but united by their object – capitalism – grasped from different angles and viewpoints.
