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Reading recommendations from our authors.

Here are some of our (non-Verso) favourites of the year, as chosen by our London and New York teams.

As world leaders gathered in Glasgow last month for COP26, Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard MP has said Covid19 and the Climate Crisis has exposed the ‘rotten infrastructure’ of the capitalist economic system and called on all shades of progressive activists to identify economic & social concepts that will emancipate exploited workers; protect hard-pressed families; empower local communities; and decolonise the natural world. 

The case for public ownership of wind and other renewable energy resources.

A reading list on the relation between Hegel and Marx, two of philosophy's greatest thinkers. All 40% off (print books) and 60% off (ebooks) until January 4th.

Benjamin Bratton, author of THE REVENGE OF THE REAL, explores the implications of vaccine mandates as COVID numbers rise and new variants appear. Weighing the alternatives, he warns against the "Florida model" of laissez-faire and denialist biopolitics.

Sheila Rowbotham on the women who inspired her as a young socialist feminist organiser in the 1970s.

The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work.

Jonah Furman talks Striketober, the US labor movement, and the future of neoliberalism in this in-depth interview

From a world without police to a manifesto for the age of environmental breakdown, we bring you 10 books that have defined this momentous year.

Complete your Mouffe bookshelf with this reading list!

Complete your Fredric Jameson bookshelf with this reading list! All 40% off (print books) and 60% off (ebooks) until January 4th.