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Archive of Opening the Gates

    Verso Books
    29 April 2022
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    May Day Reading 2022

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

    Verso Books
    23 August 2021
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    Why the Left Studies History: Verso Student Reading

    Our selected History reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Verso Books
    26 November 2019
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    US Labor History

    A reading list of key titles on the history of labor organizing and class struggle in the US.

    Verso Books
    19 November 2018
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    Verso End of Year Highlights 2018

    Featuring books on migration, identity politics, the rise of right-wing populism and the struggles of 1968.

    Verso Books
    18 November 2018
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    History: A Verso Bookshelf

    Our essential titles on radical histories.

    Ian Birchall
    07 June 2018
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    Socialism in One Factory?

    Ian Birchall reviews Opening the Gates, on the historic 1970s struggles at the Lip watch factory in Besançon.

    Andy Merrifield
    17 May 2018
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    “Fulfillment was already there”: Debord & ’68

    Andy Merrifield discusses the influence of Guy Debord and the Situationist International on the events of May '68.

    Tariq Ali
    17 May 2018
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    We Shall Fight, We Will Win: On The Black Dwarf and 1968

    The radical newspaper The Black Dwarf played a pivotal role in the British left in the late '60s. In this introduction to the magazine by Tariq Ali, it's editor for the first years of its existence, Ali discusses the influences behind the formation of the magazine and the role its played in the events of 1968 in Britain.

    Sheila Rowbotham
    16 May 2018
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    Women: The Struggle for Freedom...

    In 1969, The Black Dwarf published an issue on "The Year of the Militant Woman". Reproduced below is the centrepiece article of the issue, Rowbotham's powerful manifesto of women's liberation - an article which broke new ground on the left in Britain. As Rowbotham wrote later, "everyday details such as these were not part of the language of politics in 1969."

    Jean-Jacques Lebel
    16 May 2018
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    The Night of May 10, 1968 - extract from The Back Dwarf 13,1

    In this extract from the first issue of The Black Dwarf, Jean-Jacques Lebel gives a vivid first-hand account of the events of May '68 in Paris

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