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Verso Books11 August 2025

Make summer 2025 a season of educating and organizing, by stocking up on ebooks and print editions.

Until Thursday 14th August 2025, 11:59pm EDT, enjoy 80% off ALL ebooks!

Urgent Interventions

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Imperialism and Globalisation

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Building Movements that Fight Back

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Disaster Nationalism

by Richard Seymour

While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic right-wing leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, defeating these people will not stem the tide behind them. They are the em...
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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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Riot. Strike. Riot

by Joshua Clover

Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scho...
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The Internet Con

by Cory Doctorow

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their syste...
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Crude Capitalism

by Adam Hanieh

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse',...
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Against the Crisis

by Ståle Holgersen

Translated by Steven Cuzner and Ståle Holgersen

If crisis defines our era, we need a coherent socialist policy in response. Ståle Holgersen delves into today’s economic and ecological crises to demonstrate that they are not exceptions to an oth...
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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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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...
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This Fiction Called Nigeria

by Adéwálé Májà-Pearce

In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous coun...
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The Rest and the West

by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson

In the wake of a pandemic that tested economies and societies, geopolitical conflict has taken on a new intensity. The Rest and the West locates the origins of this development in the turbulent dyn...
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Everything to Play For

by Marijam Did

Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural theory and materialist critiques with accessib...
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Taking Back Control?

by Wolfgang Streeck

Translated by Ben Fowkes and Joshua Rahtz

The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal revolution gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the centra...
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The Commune Form

by Kristin Ross

When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their daily lives collectively. Contemporary struggles ...
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The Master's Tools

by Michael A. McCarthy

Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up w...
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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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Our Lives in Their Portfolios

by Brett Christophers

Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financia...
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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...
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Autism Is Not A Disease

by Jodie Hare

Neurodiversity is one of the most urgent political issues of our time. As the number of diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and other types of neurodivergence rises, we are starting to understand that there...
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