Book strip #1

• 

  Burnout

  by Hannah Proctor

  In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? To answer that que...
• 

  Mutual Aid

  by Dean Spade

  Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal imm...
• 

  They Call It Love

  by Alva Gotby

  They Call It Love investigates the work that makes a haven in a heartless world, examining who performs this labour, how it is organised, and how it might change. Drawing on the thought of the femi...
• 

  Lean on Me

  by Lynne Segal

  Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades?Questions of care, intimacy, educatio...
• 

  Abolish the Family

  by Sophie Lewis

  What if we could do better than the family?We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonmen...
• 

  The Care Manifesto

  by The Care Collective

  The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care—childcare, healthcare, elder care—to care for the natural world. We live in a world where careless...

Book strip #2

• 

  Troublemaking

  by Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock

  There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech workers in Silicon Valley. The culmination of years of conversation...
• 

  After Work

  by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek

  Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleanin...
• 

  Own This!

  by R. Trebor Scholz

  Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Rothschild Book AwardsPlatform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income by establishing their own platform—an internet wh...
• 

  The Verso Book of Dissent

  Preface by Tariq Ali

  Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

  Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many y...
• 

  Ecology of Fear

  by Mike Davis

  Counterpointing Los Angeles’s central role in America’s fantasy life – the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909 – with its wanton denial of its own real his...

Book strip #3

• 

  Abolish the Family

  by Sophie Lewis

  What if we could do better than the family?We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonmen...
• 

  Lean on Me

  by Lynne Segal

  Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades?Questions of care, intimacy, educatio...
• 

  Mutual Aid

  by Dean Spade

  Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal imm...
• 

  The Care Manifesto

  by The Care Collective

  The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care—childcare, healthcare, elder care—to care for the natural world. We live in a world where careless...
• 

  Miss Major Speaks

  by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek

  Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the H...

Book strip #4

• 

  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...
• 

  How to Blow Up a Pipeline

  by Andreas Malm

  The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a...
• 

  On Extinction

  by Ben Ware

  On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face ‘the end of all things’, Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching...
• 

  Fighting in a World on Fire

  by Andreas Malm

  Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are m...
• 

  Half-Earth Socialism

  by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese

  ‘Building a society that operates within ecological constraints requires an unleashing of our political imaginations, and this book helps us do just that’—Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecur...
• 

  The Future is Degrowth

  by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter

  Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalis...
• 

  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 ...

Book strip #5

• 

  Abolition Geography

  by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, of...
• 

  The End of Policing

  by Alex S. Vitale

  The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefr...
• 

  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...
• 

  Charged

  by Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone

  Charged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of dissent, in their pursuit of more control, how do the p...

Book strip #6

• 

  Feminist City

  by Leslie Kern

  What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space wi...
• 

  Abortion Beyond the Law

  by Naomi Braine

  Drawing on years of research with activists around the world, sociologist Naomi Braine describes the strategies, politics, and tactics of direct action feminists bringing abortion pills, informatio...
• 

  Feminism for the 99%

  by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser

  Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change, border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But don’t these issues impact the vast majority of wome...
• 

  Bodies Under Siege

  by Sian Norris

  Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extr...

Book strip #7

• 

  My Country, Africa

  by Andrée Blouin

  Introduction by Adom Getachew and Thomas Meaney

  Contributions by Jean Mackellar

  Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman in Africa—played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and ’60s, advising the postcolonial lead...
• 

  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...
• 

  What Is Antiracism?

  by Arun Kundnani

  Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and...
• 

  We're Here Because You Were There

  by Ian Sanjay Patel

  What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. In a se...

Book strip #8

• 

  Feeling at Home

  by Alva Gotby

  Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing – domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to...
• 

  Against Landlords

  by Nick Bano

  Against Landlords overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which...
• 

  In Defense of Housing

  by David Madden and Peter Marcuse

  In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. Today our homes are being transformed into commodities, makin...

Book strip #11

• 

  Breaking Things at Work

  by Gavin Mueller

  In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English country...

Book strip #12

• 

  Work Without the Worker

  by Philip Jones

  We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a ...

Book strip #13

• 

  Feminist City

  by Leslie Kern

  What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space wi...

Book strip #14

• 

  Mutual Aid

  by Dean Spade

  Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal imm...

Book strip #15

• 

  The Care Manifesto

  by The Care Collective

  The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care—childcare, healthcare, elder care—to care for the natural world. We live in a world where careless...

Book strip #16

• 

  Feminism for the 99%

  by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser

  Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change, border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But don’t these issues impact the vast majority of wome...

Book strip #17

• 

  The End of Policing

  by Alex S. Vitale

  The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefr...

Book strip #18

• 

  The Verso Book of Dissent

  Preface by Tariq Ali

  Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

  Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many y...

Book strip #19

• 

  Parecon

  by Michael Albert

  ‘What do you want?’ is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldw...

Book strip #20

• 

  Fully Automated Luxury Communism

  by Aaron Bastani

  Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone. New technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism ...

Book strip #21

• 

  Futures of Black Radicalism

  Edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin

  Black rebellion has returned, with dramatic protests in scores of cities and campuses, bringing with it a renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key schol...

Book strip #22

• 

  How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

  by Erik Olin Wright

  Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solid...

Book strip #23

• 

  Psychopolitics

  by Byung-Chul Han

  Translated by Erik Butler

  Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower...

Book strip #24

• 

  Females

  by Andrea Long Chu

  “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and ...

Book strip #25

• 

  Revolting Prostitutes

  by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

  How the law harms sex workers - and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justi...

Book strip #26

• 

  Full Surrogacy Now

  by Sophie Lewis

  "Rooted in historical, site-based, narrative, and political accounts, Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for. This kind of gestation depends on...

Book strip #27

• 

  24/7

  by Jonathan Crary

  The bestselling and internationally translated book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century...

Book strip #28

• 

  Capital Is Dead

  by McKenzie Wark

  In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a new mode of production, one not ruled over by capit...

Book strip #29

• 

  Four Futures

  by Peter Frase

  “It is easier to imagine the end of the world,” the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, “than to imagine the end of capitalism.” Jacobin Editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements...

Book strip #30

Book strip #31

• 

  Inventing the Future

  by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

  Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.Inve...

Book strip #32

• 

  Humankind

  by Timothy Morton

  What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Accl...

Book strip #33

• 

  Utopia

  by Ursula K. Le Guin and Thomas More

  Introduction by China Miéville

  Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More’s Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and...

Book strip #34

• 

  Abolition Geography

  by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, of...

Book strip #35

• 

  Miss Major Speaks

  by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek

  Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the H...

Book strip #36

• 

  How to Blow Up a Pipeline

  by Andreas Malm

  The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a...

Book strip #37

• 

  Fighting in a World on Fire

  by Andreas Malm

  Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are m...

Book strip #38

• 

  Troublemaking

  by Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock

  There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech workers in Silicon Valley. The culmination of years of conversation...