Archive of Algiers, Third World Capital

Challenge your imposed reading.

Featuring Priya Gopal, Walter Rodney, Stella Dadzie and more.

Look beyond the histories of Western countries with this selection of books: all 40% off until the end of September.

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

1969 may be remembered as the year of Woodstock and the hippies, but as the documentary Summer of Soul shows, it was also the year of cultural and social tumult that surged up from the deepest currents of the black Atlantic.

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

In an open letter to theorist Sylvia Wynter on Wynter's text "1492: A New World View," Ariella Aïsha Azoulay  retrieves memories of her Jewish family's Arabness: "I refuse to become a memory-less Jew, whose life was mutated and reformatted to begin only with the creation of the nation-state."

Books that challenge the notion of empire and offer a history of anti-colonial, anti-racist struggle.

Our bestselling books on feminism, gender, race, and political theory by Verso's top women authors. 

Fundamental reading on race, ethnicity and anti-colonialism.