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The Verso Archive featuring Tariq Ali

Video: Tariq Ali makes his way through the Verso Archive

Verso Books 3 June 2025

The Verso Archive featuring Tariq Ali

Writer Tariq Ali visits our offices in New York City and makes his way through the Verso Archive, sharing memories of publishing with Verso, working with Mike Davis, and maintaining integrity in challenging times.

Books mentioned in the video:

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I, Rigoberta MenchĂş

I, Rigoberta MenchĂş

by Rigoberta MenchĂş

Introduction by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray

Edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray

Translated by Ann Wright

Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta MenchĂş, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. MenchĂş suffered gross i...
Trampling Out the Vintage

Trampling Out the Vintage

by Frank Bardacke

In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan “Yes, we can”—in the form “¡Sí, Se Puede!”—winning many labor victories, securing collective bargaining rights for farm worker...
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City of Quartz

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...
An Act of State

An Act of State

by William F. Pepper

On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting a workers' strike. By nightfall, army snipers were in position, military officers were on a nearby roof with cameras, and Lloyd Jowers ...
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

by Perry Anderson

Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the dive...
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Moral Abdication

Moral Abdication

by Didier Fassin

Translated by Gregory Elliott

Providing a record of the first six months of the war waged by the Israeli army after the 7 October attacks and drawing on a rich range of international sources, Didier Fassin examines how most Wes...
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

by Andreas Malm

Israel’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted ...
You Can't Please All

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...
A History of Vodka

A History of Vodka

by William Pokhlebkin

Translated by Renfrey Clarke

Savored by peasants and Tsars, condemned by clerics and the architects of perestroika, vodka has been the joy and scourge of the Russian nation for centuries. But what are the origins of the Russia...
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