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Red May at Verso!

We're celebrating May Day with a site-wide book sale – up to 50% off all titles!

Verso Books 1 May 2024

Red May at Verso!

After a long period of dormancy, the labor movement has seen a wave of dynamism in recent years. The fall of real-terms wage value (despite rising profits at the top) has led to a huge increase in strike action in the UK (despite the governments attempts to destroy union power), and the US has seen a significant uptick in union organizing across all industries.

May 1st marks International Workers' Day, a festival of working-class self-organization stretching back over 130 years. Below we've pulled together highlights from across our publishing, covering histories of revolution and revolt to books that radically imagine what our futures.  

Red May Sale:
30% off all titles in our catalog
40% off if you buy 4
50% off if you buy 5
Discount will be applied in cart. Separate orders can't be combined.

As a friendly reminder: Verso Book Club members enjoy 50% off all titles year-round on purchases of any size. It's a great deal and the best way to support radical publishing!

New releases!

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Revolution and Revolt through History

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Building our Radical Futures

See also Imaging Radical Futures.

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Capitalism Won't Save the Planet: Radical Solutions to the Climate Crisis

See all our climate crisis reading here.

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Politics in our Homes, Workplaces, and Cities

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From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free

See all our Palestine reading here.

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Verso Theory and Philosophy Highlights

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Verso Fiction Highlights

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  • Making Space
    Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexualit...
  • Work

    Work

    Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history ...
  • Feminist City
    What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space wi...
    Paperback

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  • Ten Myths About Israel
    In this groundbreaking book, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. This h...
    Paperback (2017)
  • The Palestine Laboratory
    Winner of the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeFinalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as ...
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  • The Punishment of Gaza
    Israel’s 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows h...
    Paperback

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