"What resulted from Emma’s five years of hard work is an exceptional book. It documents not only the consequences of a decade of austerity in Britain, but offers a fresh lens through which to understand the rise of neoliberalism and its mode of governance." –Rosie Warren, editor
"What is remarkable about Andreas’s writing, to me, is that in reading this book, it’s immediately clear that destruction, sabotage, and occupation are acts of love." – Jessie Kindig, editor
From escapism to the end of policing, we bring you 10 books that have defined this strange year.
An interview with Houria Bouteldja, founder of the Parti des Indigènes de la République.
Last month saw the 10th anniversary of the British student movement, and its symbolic starting point at Millbank Tower. But, in the midst of a new crisis, and with student unrest resurfacing, what can the ultimate failure of the movement teach us today?
A leader of Latin America’s powerful new women’s movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politics.
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“The shabby record of private investment-led political economy would not have surprised Keynes.” Tim Barker in Part III on the Verso Roundtable on Automation and the Future of Work.
Books and magazines read and loved by the Verso staff in 2020
Brett Christophers, author of Rentier Capitalism, on the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy, in the latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast.
As carelessness takes hold in so many domains of life, and as community ties are profoundly weakened, the family is often encouraged to step in as society’s preferred infrastructure of care.
In Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav uncovers the structural economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future. What social movements, he asks, are required to propel us into post-scarcity, if technological innovation alone can’t deliver it?