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In the latest Verso Podcast, Bhaskar Sunkara is joined by journalist and author Dawn Foster to examine the key ideas behind his new book, The Socialist Manifesto.

From the Algeria to algorithms, Lizzie O'Shea argues that Frantz Fanon’s ideas have much to offer us as we seek to understand, and resist, some of the most profound challenges of living in the digital age.

"As two friends writing this book together, we strive to make the demands of our movement visible" - an excerpt from the Introduction to Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights.

Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous, selects five books that shaped her thinking on fascism permeating life under capitalism.

"It was as if decades of theorizing fascism—as an ideology, or a tendency, a practice, something that never quite disappeared —had been erased overnight and all that mattered in the media frenzy was delineating Trump’s similarities and differences to Hitler or Mussolini."

Frances Ryan on her new book, Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast

The past year has seen French society rocked by the Gilets Jaunes protests. Yet, while these protests have been ongoing, the government passed new Asylum and Immigration Law and police violence against migrants has reached new heights of brutality. This translation of a statement by the Gilets Noirs, a movement spearheaded by undocumented migrants, outlines their demands.

In American Breakdown, David Bromwich connects the hollowing out of American democracy and the rise of Trump to decades of imperialism, neoliberal policies, and a strengthening of executive power.

Greenhouse effect, global warming, climate change, climate disruption. Think of the succession of words we’ve used to describe the gradual onset of catastrophe and you see at once how inadequate words can be.

In these videos, Priyamvada Gopal uncovers a complicated history of colonial resistance and attitudes to empire in Britain. She is the author of Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

Black radicals in London learnt vital lessons from rebellions in the colonies, and interpreted them to a metropolitan audience

An interview with Tony Wood on the current state of Russia-US relations, and the West's misguided obsession with Putin.