"A poem about drowning refugees, those who drown in view, in view of the shore, in view of others, speaks across times to tell us that it is not enough to learn to read, to learn to see – but also to act."—Esther Leslie on how Bertolt Brecht and War Primer teaches us how to read and how to act.
The latest issue of The Funambulist, Racialized Incarceration, is out now.
Recent controversies in philosophy and sociology illustrate that identity-based dismissals do not seek to strengthen the quality of academic conversation, but rather employ ad hominem fallacies to re-assert hierarchies of knowledge, discourse, and personhoods.
We’ve asked some Verso authors to share the books they are most looking forward to reading this summer.
Much mainstream media coverage of the helicopter attack on Venezuelan government buildings has focused on Oscar Alberto Perez’s bombastic statements about “restoring constitutional order.” But listen closely to the other expressions and terms Perez uses in his video statement. They provide a window into a fascistic form of thought that may come to define the opposition in Venezuela.
The colonial politics of space overdetermined the premature and violent deaths of the Grenfell residents racialised as non-white.
Judith Butler's new book interweaves her two theories of performativity and precarity with the works of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, and Emmanuel Levinas as a way to critically assess and speak to Tahrir Square, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and other movements of dissent. In this interview, Stephanie Berbec asks her to consider her work in light of the recent events at Standing Rock and the 2016 presidential election.
In late 1966, Stokely Carmichael was arrested during a Mississippi rally in the aftermath of the Selma campaign. On his release, he advocated Black Power, representing a break with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Strongly influenced by the work of Frantz Fanon and his landmark book Wretched of the Earth, along with others such as Malcolm X, Carmichael led SNCC to become more radical. He resigned as chairman in May 1967 and became more closely aligned with the Black Panther Party. To celebrate the anniversary of his birth, we publish the text of his speech delivered at the University of California at Berkeley expounding on his aims forty-nine years ago in October 1966.
Immigration raids target EU national rough sleepers for deportation. North East London Migrant Action (NELMA) presents the testimony of M.
The latest issue is now available.
Attacks against Houria Bouteldja are aimed against political anti-racism as a whole, which is to say any attempt to organise and fight to put an end to oppression.
Youth grievance was a major part of the 59 per cent vote that forced the resignation of Italy's former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in December 2016. Crankish remarks by the Democratic Party’s labour minister about young people leaving the country reflect the often gerontocratic codes of Italian public life, but they also drew political debate back onto one of the country’s defining social ills.