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A reading list of history and theory that illuminates the effects of underdevelopment across the globe.

The debate around how we move towards ecologically sustainable ways of living is the most pressing discussion of our times. The shorter working week has a crucial role to play.

Weak, invisible, individualistic and selfish, but collaborative and egalitarian too, and stamped above all by the segregations of American life. When Noel Ignatiev worked in the largest steel mill in the world, what form did workers' power take?

A reading list of books that offer critical perspectives on past and present futures chosen by Fred Scharmen, author of Space Forces.

In the final installment of our roundtable on The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo responds to Gabriel Hetland, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, and Anton Jäger and reflects on pandemic-era neoliberalism, neo-statism, and socialist strategy

Anton Jäger reflects on Paolo Gerbaudo's The Great Recoil, neoliberalism, and the evolving role of the state in the Covid-era

How should the left position itself strategically vis-a-vis liberalism in this new political moment? Carlo Invernizzi Accetti on socialist strategy in Paolo Gerbaudo's The Great Recoil. 

As part of our roundtable on Paolo Gerbaudo's The Great Recoil, Gabriel Hetland writes about populism, sovereignty, and what the US and European lefts can learn from comrades in Latin America.

Introducing the Verso Roundtable on Paolo Gerbaudo's book, The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic

While sci-fi novels are replete with references to climate change, sci-fi cinema leave a lot to be desired in their narration of the effects of the climate crisis. But what if we watch them against the grain? Here, Mark Bould rewatches some recent alien invasion movies to uncover the Anthropocene unconscious at work in them.

Neoliberalism sought to revive capitalism with a seductive, populist culture of differentiated consumerism and individual libertarianism. Steve Jobs made it happen.

Historian of the British New Left Dr Madeleine Davis introduces the online archive of the revolutionary weekly newspaper titled 7 Days.