Archive of Riot. Strike. Riot

A selection of Verso books addressing the relationship between technology, work and society.

All books are 40% off in celebration of May Day!

In the second part of their series on the global conjuncture, Nikhil Pal Singh and Joshua Clover survey our present economic and ecological impasse, and search through the ruins for the green shoots of solidarity and for the "openings that are necessarily present when things fall apart."

Contemporary circulation struggles – the occupations, riots and critical infrastructure blockades that dominate the reportoire of resistance – have in recent years been popularly associated with movements of the left. But what happens they migrate across the political spectrum? Here, Joshua Clover writes on the contemporary terrain of struggle.

40% off our May Day reading! Includes new reading from Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, McKenzie Wark, and Andreas Malm.

Connections between patriarchy, policing, and the failures of representational politics were brought into sharp focus last weekend by police violence at the vigil for Sarah Everard.

Key titles on activism and global resistance, from movements for Black liberation and climate justice to labor organizing and anti-colonial struggles.

The year 2020 has provided a practically laboratorial clarity. For political theory, or really political practice, it has been something like a natural experiment measuring two politics against the world and against each other. How to name these two politics, if not the election and the riot? 

Riots, rebellions and uprisings that have changed the world.

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