Wisecrack X Verso Books Reading List
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Verso Book Club: Disaster Nationalism
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization by Richard Seymour is one of our Verso Book Club November reads. -
I survived a massacre in the so-called safe zone
I thought I would be in the U.S. on a scholarship. Instead I was running for my life from yet another Israeli attack. -
Escaping England
In the aftermath of the summer riots, George Evans re-reads Tom Nairn in order to examine the possibilities of a progressive left English nationalism in the face of the Far Right, asking whether it is possible, or desirable, to escape from England. -
Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
Radical political solutions to the climate crisis from Andreas Malm, Brett Christophers, Noam Chomsky and more.
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From Cyberpunk Dystopia to the Techno-Feudalism of Today
“The mounting discussion of ecological collapse brings the cyberpunk dystopia into the present.” -
The Verso Palestine Pamphlets
A new series answering the most pressing questions about Israel's destruction of Gaza, and Palestine's long struggle for liberation.
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New Left Review 148, out now.
As a Labour government takes up the reins in Westminster, Tom Hazeldine analyses the class character of the UK’s 2024 vote and the regionally skewed economy that underlies it. -
To be an Algerian Jew is to revolt
Ariella AĂŻsha Azoulay examines the disruption of Jewish Muslim life across North Africa and the Middle East by two colonial projects: French rule in the Maghreb and the Zionist colonization of Palestine.
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The Target Factory
JĂşlia Nueno Guitart on how the Israeli military uses AI to turn civilian sites into military targets. -
What needs to be done to end food hunger in Britain?
"Whenever a British politician says something is not possible, it is always worth checking to see if it is indeed being done elsewhere in Europe." -
Verso in Bolivia (1967)
Verso has always been committed to socialist internationalism. This despatch, written by Richard Gott in 1967 just months before Che Guevara's murder, illustrates the intersection between Verso's publishing and political commitment.
