Silly Little Walk Season | Summer Reading
Books on the politics of walking.
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It’s Getting Too Hot to Handle (it’s a Climate Crisis)
Our essential climate reading for fighting in a world on fire. -
I don't dream of labour... I dream of the beach
This summer we're dreaming of less time spent at work, and more time spent at the beach. -
Why Don't We Just Print More Money?
Our Economics Summer Reading! -
Love in the Age of Capitalism
Books on the family, sexual politics, and comradely love! -
New Releases | Verso Summer Reading
New summer reading featuring Hannah Proctor, Adam Greenfield, and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. -
Abolition Is Now: Leah Cowan & Lola Olufemi
Leah Cowan and Lola Olufemi join The Verso Podcast to discuss feminist futures, abolitionism, and the roots of social violence. -
What is Cultural Criticism? Verso Reading
Featuring works from Francis Mulhern, Terry Eagleton, Michele Wallace, and more. -
“Y’all better quiet down.” Sylvia Rivera & the fractures of gay solidarity.
"While the Stonewall rebellion had increasingly been commemorated through the new gender-normative style of the moment, the most criminalized in the community who couldn’t live up to that norm were left behind or unwelcome." -
The Labour Party and Economic Democracy
Writing in 2003, Paul Foot contended that successive Labour governments have abandoned any aspiration to economic democracy. Will a Keir Starmer government be any different in 2024? -
Abandoned Legacy: The Left of Iran and Palestinians
Omid Montazary charts the entwined histories of resistance and collaboration between the Iranian marxist and muslim groups and Palestinian liberation since the Nakba, and asks why this shared legacy has been abandoned today.
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Keir Starmer: The Lawyer
Oliver Eagleton on Labour leader Keir Starmer’s past life as Director of Public Prosecutions, and what it reveals about the kind of politician he is.
