I Do Not Dream of Labour: A Verso Reading List
I wasn't born to work! All books are up to 40% off.
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Film and Media: Verso Student Reading
Our selected Film and Media reading for the academic year ahead! Up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.
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Race and Ethnicity: Verso Student Reading
Featuring Walter Rodney, Stella Dadzie, Angela Davis and more! Up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.
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Architecture and Cities: Verso Student Reading
Books that propose alternative forms of city-making and architecture, up to 40% off as part of our student reading sale.
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Perry Anderson: Essential Marxist Reading
In this reading list we compile works by Perry Anderson: one of the world's leading political theorists and Marxist historians. -
Mario Tronti Doesn’t Belong to the Hoity-Toity
When we talk about operaismo, we don’t think of university chairs and conferences. We think of struggles, conflicts, the desire for freedom, the refusal to bow our heads. Today even more than yesterday.
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Against Labour's “modern supply side" social democracy
Kier Starmer's “modern supply side approach” to the economy has been touted by some commentators as a transformative break from neoliberal orthodoxy. But, as Sahil Jai Dutta writes, its top-down managerialism will only continue the very orthodoxy that has failed us for decades. -
Toward a Theory of Twenty-First-Century Charlatanism
Eric-John Russell on charlatans, swindlers, frauds, and Jaime Semprun’s A Gallery of Recuperation. -
Writers and missionaries w/ Adam Shatz
The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast. -
Behind Alice Neel’s Marxist Girl
Irene Peslikis is often remembered simply as the subject of Alice Neel's portrait 'Marxist Girl', but as Chris Hayes writes she was also an inspiring artist and activist who played a pivotal role in feminist organising in New York. -
"Inside the inferno": T. J. Clark on Pasolini
Daniel Ward interviews art historian T. J. Clark about Pier Paolo Pasolini, neorealism, the influence of the Communist Party on post-war Italian culture and the recently published collection of Pasolini writing on painting, Heretical Aesthetics. -
Taking a Deeper Dive
Books that should be read together.
