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Marx and Crisis

Here, we publish the translation of the first part of Daniel Bensaïd's introduction to Karl Marx, Les Crises du capitalisme. Bensaïd offers an incisive synthesis of Marx's thought on capitalist crisis across all three volumes of Marx's Capital.
Engineering a kitchen in Gaza
Enzo Traverso on Fascism, Marxism and Israel

Enzo Traverso in conversation with his Verso editor, Sebastian Budgen.
Testimonial 14: Germany can censor its scholars, but it cannot hide its complicity

Germany's repression and censorship of Palestinian solidarity has been especially brutal. In testimonial 14, Thamil V. Ananthavinayagan's describes how his chapter for a collection on settler colonialism was rejected for its discussion of Germany's culpability in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians.
Toni Negri was a reader and continuer of Karl Marx, in an astonishing combination of literality and freedom

Étienne Balibar praises the work of his friend the Italian thinker Antonio Negri, who died on 16 December. Negri theorised creative resistance and new forms of revolt in the face of globalised capitalism.
All departments of human activity

Raphael Samuel grapples with the idea of a ‘people’s history’ in this excerpt from Workshop of the World.
Open Letter on Police Brutality Against Students and Silencing of Palestine Solidarity at Freie Universität Berlin

An open letter to Freie Universität (FU) Berlin from students and faculty from across the world denouncing FU Berlin's decision to use armed police to forcibly evict a non-violent, pro-Palestinian occupation of a lecture hall. This is testimonial 13 in our Palestine Uncensored series.
Enshittification: The 2023 Digital Word of the Year

"Enshittification," Cory Doctorow's coinage describing the process by which internet media platforms become increasingly unusable and un-quittable, has been named 2023's "Digital Word of the Year." Here, we break down what the term means and Doctorow's solution to the internet's relentless enshittification.
Settler colonialism – from Columbus to Gaza w/ Sai Englert

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast.
Communism tomorrow? On Daniel Bensaïd

Daniel Bensaïd died 14 years ago today. In this essay, Victor Cartan explores Bensaïd's communism and what we, on the Left, can learn from it in the 21st century.
Towers of Ivory and Steel: a Letter from the Editor

One of our February Verso Book Club titles.
‘No more disappearance’: Tom Nairn on Edward Said and Palestinian identity

An excerpt from Tom Nairn’s Faces of Nationalism reviewing two books by Edward Said, The Politics of Dispossession and Representations of the Intellectual, with reflections on Ernest Gellner’s attack on Orientalism. The essay is framed by the fact of the non-disappearance of the Palestinian people, and the role of ‘nationalism’ in this. It was first published in the London Review of Books on 8 September 1994.