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McKenzie Wark, author of Sensoria, discusses algorithmic injustice, racial capitalism and Afropessimism alongside the work of Jackie Wang.

On the publication of a new collection of writing, John Howe recalls his encounter with the father of AfroBeat at the Shrine, Lagos.

The crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has revealed major flaws in the nature of the British state – and the left's thinking on state power as well. In this article, Christine Berry argues that what is required is a new, democratic conception of state power as a way out of the crisis.

An interview with Avery F. Gordon by Brenna Bhandar & Rafeef Ziadah, editors of Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought

2020 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of Verso Books. In that time we have published books that have become classics of the left. We also published Class War's A Decade of Disorder. Here, Colin Robinson, former editor at Verso, recounts the events leading up to its publication – and the subsequent fire-bombing of the Verso offices in retaliation.

'For all the lab work and vaccine hunts, it is ultimately society itself that pandemics put under the microscope.' 

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An interview with Gail Lewis by Brenna Bhandar & Rafeef Ziadah, editors of Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collectiver Action and Radical Thought, available from Verso

Nearly five months since her own experience of covid-19 related pneumonia and her subsequent hospitalisation, Angela McRobbie looks at the British response to the pandemic, and assesses the chances for an internationalist response to the crisis.

The Hot City series on New York's compound crises goes inside, with Alicia Grullón's self-portraits of essential work at home

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the US, we highlight a radical speech from Susan B. Anthony on women's suffrage as one step in a greater economic revolution.

We need a way of assessing not just what is wrong with capitalism, but what is desirable about alternatives.