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Archive of A Critical Theory of Police Power

    Verso Books
    19 November 2022
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    Anti-fascism reading list

    Books that deal with the rise of fascism around the world, and how to defend ourselves against it.

    Verso Books
    24 August 2022
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    Political Theory

    Featuring Walter Rodney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Theodor Adorno, Erik Olin Wright, Nancy Fraser, and Benedict Anderson.

    Verso Books
    06 July 2022
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    Ruth Wilson Gilmore on the infrastructure of feeling

    An excerpt from Ruth Wilson Gilmore's new essay collection.

    Verso Books
    16 December 2021
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    2021 End of Year Highlights

    Our highlights from the past year, all 40% off (print books) and 60% off (ebooks) until January 4th.

    Verso Books
    13 December 2021
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    Verso authors pick their favorite books of the year

    Reading recommendations from our authors.

    Verso Books
    08 June 2021
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    Long Hot Summer Reading

    Arm yourself with radical manifestos and revolutionary theory for a summer of struggle. ALL books are 40% off through the end of June.

    Kay Gabriel
    07 June 2021
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    Defund is a Strategy

    The demand to 'Defund the Police' has been under criticism, either for being out of step with public opinion or miring the rebellious potential of last summer in obscure skirmishes over municipal budgets. Here, Kay Gabriel lays out the strategic wager of campaigning to defund the police, recording the political utility of the demand and accounting for the further organizing that it requires. 

    01 June 2021
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    Against the Carceral State: A Verso Roundtable

    Introducing this week's Verso Roundtable, analysing the movement for police and prison abolition a year on from last summer's protests. 

    Verso Books
    22 March 2021
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    Our Big Spring Philosophy and Theory sale!

    40% off new Rancière editions, plus our bestselling political theory and philosophy books.

    Sita Balani
    19 March 2021
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    Catching History: Vigils, Riots and the Right to Protest

    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.

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