Pharma companies have made a killing on the pandemic, in part by refusing to share vaccine technology with manufacturers in the Global South. Though companies like Pfizer hide behind the argument that only profit incentives can drive innovation, Tim Bierley shows that knowledge sharing and publicly-funded pharmaceutical development leads to more equitable production and distribution of vaccines and medications.
Here are our books coming out in September!
John Berger's unique and uncompromising voice as an art critic owed in large part to his political commitments. A unapologetic Marxist, Berger judged art not simply by its aesthetic value but by its capacity to help its observers recognize their collective power.
Our Cultural and Literary Theory reading for the academic year ahead: all up to 40% off until the end of September.
Our art and aesthetics reading for the academic year ahead, up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.
Our Anthropology reading for the academic year ahead.
Fill your academic year with radical left theory.
Source: Just trust me.
Our psychoanalysis reading for the year ahead, up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.
Discounted books for Passerby Club members!
The Berkeley Faculty Association on how the struggle over the People's Park exposes the structural contradictions of privatization strategies at UC Berkeley.
"Socialists and activists can deny the snake the right to eat democracy, kill the planet, imprison and harm us, destroy our ability to care for one another." A letter from the editor for Nancy Fraser's Cannibal Capitalism,a September Verso Book Club pick!