Archive of Verso Books

A World Without Police makes an undeniable argument that our future means abolition with no compromises. In the book, Geo Maher describes the majority population of the United States with an investment in policing and carcerality as "the pig majority." A population that "could include you, but it doesn't have to." His writing reminds us that we have a responsibility to make police obsolete.

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast. 

A manifesto written in 1990 by ACT UP.

Featuring books on the constructions of gender, the ongoing fight for sex worker's rights, and memoirs and manifestos on the personal and political.

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast. 

John Washington, author of The Dispossessed, shares his thoughts on Biden's immigration policy, the ethics of storytelling, and what to expect in the growing fight to open borders.

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2020 saw the cracks in capitalism and neoliberal governance expand. Responses to the disasters of the COVID-19 pandemic and of climate emergency spoke to the state's commitment to differentiated violence. A hope for a livable future and just systems of care lies in our ability to mobilize and organize. 

In this excerpt from China In One Village, Liang Hong illustrates the problem of separated couples in the Chinese countryside through the tragic story of a rural woman's suicide.

Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective explore the historical basis, political arguments and future implications of the far right's role in the climate crisis. Far right governance gives rise to ecofascism and a future built on crisis and nationalism.