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Introducing the Encyclopedia of the American Left
The Encyclopedia of the American Left brings together scholarship on the history of left movements — socialist, communist, anarchist, and New Left — in the United States from the 1860s to the present. Thanks to generous support from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and a grant from the Democratic Socialists of America Fund, Verso presents this new digital edition of the Encyclopedia, free and accessible to all.
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Video: Tariq Ali and Rashid Khalidi discuss Israel, Palestine, and their new book
Watch this new conversation between Tariq Ali and Rashid Khalidi, co-authors of the recently published The Neck and the Sword
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Critical Theory in Revolt: How Angela Davis and the New Left Remade the Frankfurt School
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Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide - Includes a new Introduction "American Brainrot"
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Debt: A Novel
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Djamila Boupacha
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Weekend in Guatemala: Stories
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The Defeat of the West: Ukraine, American Decline, and the Death of Europe
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Walter Rodney and the Question of Power: C.L.R James
In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.
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Walter Rodney's legacy: by Angela Davis
“If Walter Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could not have been more wrong.” — Angela Davis
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Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa
Walter Rodney describes the ways colonialism reversed the continent's various paths of progress in order to solidify colonial exploitation.
