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What would it mean to theorise love as a form of labour? How can we think of our emotional dependency on other people in political terms, rather than as expressions of individual and interior subjectivity?

"There comes a time when every old student must decide whether or not to renew their driver’s license" — Mike Davis

How do we maintain hope in the face of despair and collective political burnout?

Katherine Angel on the endless negotiations of power within sexual experiences.

What makes Marx a stranger to Marxist movements is not simply the difficulty of certain key works and passages, but a series of other obstacles.

"It is impossible to read the introductory, stylistically razor-sharp and rhetorically perfect first pages of the Communist Manifesto without recognizing the society that is ours" – Sven-Eric Liedman

Erik Olin Wright examines the complex tension between class interest and achieving class objectives.

Jean-Paul Sartre sets out the grounds for the verdict that the United States government committed genocide in Vietnam (1967).

“If capitalism survives by creating monsters that it cannot itself fully control, then those monsters must also have the capacity to harm capitalism itself. Like Frankenstein’s monster, they might destroy their own master.” 

Steve Bell on drawing the Miners' Strike for the Guardian, 40 years on.

Donald Trump has been sworn in as America's 47th president. We sat down with Verso authors and others on the left to discuss what can be expected from his second term. 

The Jameson Reading Group is a free program dedicated to exploring and popularizing the major works of Fredric Jameson. This project, which is being coordinated in partnership with Verso, Public Books, and the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College, is volunteer-run and open to all.