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  Motherdom

  by Alex Bollen

  Good Mother myths find mothers at fault whatever they do. Alex Bollen proposes ‘motherdom’, a new way to live. Motherdom values and respects the different ways people raise their children, shifting...
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  Freedom for Capital, Not People

  by Matthias Schmelzer

  Translated by Joshua Rahtz

  Based on new archival sources, Freedom for Capital, Not People tells the story of how the Mont Pèlerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von Hayek, by th...
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  Pacification

  by Mark Neocleous

  In his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleous engages in a sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification. Combining philosophical analysis with historical detail, Neocleous anal...
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  Fascism or Genocide

  by Ross Barkan

  Fascism or Genocide is New York Times Magazine writer Ross Barkan’s sweeping report on the 2024 US election and the decade of political upheaval leading up to it.As in 2020, Joe Biden campaigned on...
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  Overshoot

  by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

  The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming – just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Heat at such levels would be intolerable. Even before one and a half, seasons of c...
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  Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?

  by Leah Cowan

  Every week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behaviour by police officers. Yet these are the very people women are supposed to approach for help when faced w...
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  Medium Hot

  by Hito Steyerl

  Hito Steyerl is one of the most celebrated artists of our time. Her work, both as an artist and a writer, has consistently challenged the political boundaries between art and technol­ogy. In this n...
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  You Can't Please All

  by Tariq Ali

  The revolutionary upsurge of 1968–1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally petered out. What happened after is the subject of You Can’t Please All. Tariq Ali recounts a life committed to w...
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  Thirst

  by Filippo Menga

  Two billion people worldwide are without access to safe water. But solutions are hard to come by when causes are not clearly defined. In a whirlwind tour of global water insecurity, one of the worl...
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  Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied

  by Patrick Cockburn

  Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Times and Private Eye. To Graham Greene, he was the gr...
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  Red Africa

  by Kevin Ochieng Okoth

  Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anticolonial struggles in Africa. Contemporary debates on Black radicalism and decolonisation have lost sight of the...
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  Insurgent Empire

  by Priyamvada Gopal

  Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. The possibility of reverse...
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  Black Meme

  by Legacy Russell

  In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and co...
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  Outside the Outside

  by Matt Hern

  Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the city itself. Today, most of the Western world liv...
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  Selling Social Justice

  by Jennifer C. Pan

  The national racial reckoning that began in 2020 promised to radically restructure American society from the bottom up. But five years on, it has mainly served to strengthen the ruling class and de...
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  The Jail is Everywhere

  by Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Judah Schept

  Foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails ...
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  City of Quartz

  by Mike Davis

  No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mi...
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  Sing to the Western Wind

  by Tariq Mehmood

  A suicide bombing is being planned in Manchester, and Saleem Khan, an atheist, seventy years of age, is carrying the bomb. Also concealed on his person is a cache of vivid, haunting memories – some...
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  Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

  by Jean-Luc Mélenchon

  Translated by David Broder

  In summer 2024, France stood on the brink of a far-right takeover. But the disaster was avoided thanks to a New Popular Front of parties headed by long-standing left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon....
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  Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner 2026

  by Verso Books UK

  The 2026 Verso Radical Diary is a week-to-view planner for keeping track of the year ahead. Alongside illustrations and book excerpts, it features significant radical dates from throughout history—...
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  The Captains' Coup

  by Wilfred Burchett

  Afterword by Tariq Ali

  Edited by Daniela Melo and Timothy Walker

  Wilfred Burchett went to Lisbon in 1974 to cover the military overthrow of the fascist dictatorship that had ruled the country for nearly five decades. Burchett’s on-the-ground reporting details th...
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  Free Them All

  by Gwenola Ricordeau

  Foreword by Silvia Federici

  Translated by Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge

  How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve women's liberation?The mainstream feminist movement h...
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  How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism

  by Cédric Durand

  Translated by David Broder

  The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn’t deliver. Today, algorithms are everywhere, but digital monopolies push us towards the feudal logi...
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  The Last Sane Woman

  by Hannah Regel

  Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. She begins to spend her hours at a small underfunded archive dedicated to women’s art. Ther...
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  Set Fear on Fire

  by LASTESIS

  After the feminist art collective LASTESIS created their performance "A Rapist in Your Path" in their native Chile, it went viral across the globe, becoming the anthem of the grassroots feminist mo...
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  The Reckoning

  by Robin Blackburn

  The Age of Revolution (1776–1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a ‘Second Slavery’ surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a sy...
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  The Fiery Spirits

  by John Rees

  The Fiery Spirits tells the story of the MPs in parliament and the protestors in the streets who played a pivotal role in the English Civil Wars. Through their stories, John Rees reveals the hidden...
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  Verso V Notebook

  by Verso Books UK

  Celebrate your favourite radical publishing house with our official branded merch! The Verso V Notebook beautfully celebrates our logo, is fully lined in the signature Verso red and in a handy port...
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  The South

  by Adolph L. Reed Jr.

  Foreword by Barbara J. Fields

  The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but ...
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  Bluebeard's Castle

  by Anna Biller

  When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her from a bitter, lonely young wom...
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  Hermaphrodite Logic

  by Juliana Gleeson

  HERMAPHRODITE LOGIC is a bold examination of intersex liberation. Juliana Gleeson reveals how a movement challenged systemic medical abuses to reshape our understanding of sex. Blending philosophic...
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  The Invention of Sicily

  by Jamie Mackay

  A crossroads of the Mediterranean, Sicily links Europe, Africa and the East. In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. It is a story with...
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  The Jewelers of the Ummah

  by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

  Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children—and to thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt—Ariella...
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  The Next Crisis

  by Danny Dorling

  The Next Crisis uses the latest research into national and global attitudes to redraw our assumptions about what constitutes the greatest threats to our well-being. Dorling examines what the cost o...
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  In Defence of Barbarism

  by Louisa Yousfi

  Translated by Andy Bliss

  Is social integration all it’s cracked up to be? Not in the defiant view of first-time French author Louisa Yousfi, who herself has North African roots. Taking its inspiration from the leading Alge...
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  The Most Dangerous Man in Britain?

  by Tony Benn

  Introduction by Melissa Benn

  This centenary anthology of Tony Benn’s speeches, writings and interviews is a timely reminder of his political potency and the urgency of his agenda across a wide set of issues: the consequences o...
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  The Good Die Young

  Introduction by Greg Grandin

  Edited by Rene Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara and Jonah Walters

  If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at pre...
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  Multitudes

  by Dan Hancox

  From raucous football matches and raves to rubber-bullet-riddled riots, Hancox takes us into the crowd’s pulsating heart to pose the questions that will define our age. Multitudes argues it is time...
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  The Trial of Julian Assange

  by Nils Melzer

  Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, uncovers a systematic campaign to persecute Assange. He reveals that Assange has faced grave and systematic due process violations, judicial bia...
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  Cybernetic Circulation Complex

  by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni

  Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role...
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  Systems Ultra

  by Georgina Voss

  Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behaviours.What does it mean when a car which runs on c...
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  Class, Crisis and the State

  by Erik Olin Wright

  The idea of “class interest”—the set of social objectives of a given class—has been well explored in socialist thought. But what about the ability to realize these objectives? The complex tension b...
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  A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse

  by David Harvey

  When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Pu...
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  Capitalism

  by Nancy Fraser

  Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping crisis - ecological, political, social - which we may not survive. In this brilliant, wide-ranging conversa...
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  Who Will Build the Ark?

  Edited by Benjamin Kunkel and Lola Seaton

  In Who Will Build the Ark?, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental breakdown, clarifying the stakes in today's key di...