Verso Book Club: August 2026

Print Books

Partisan and Comrade members will receive their choice of two print titles. See our FAQs for step-by-step instructions on choosing your print books. 

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Comrade members will also receive an additional print book chosen by our editors. 

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Ebooks

All of our members will receive a digital edition of every book we're publishing next month. 

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  • The Rulers

    The Rulers

    by Cecilia Rikap

    Capitalism’s rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies....
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price £10.00

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 4 August 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • Revolutionary Subjects

    Revolutionary Subjects

    by Benjamin Kohlmann

    Tracing the evolution of socialist world literature from the nineteenth century to the present, Benjamin Kohlmann uncovers the formal repertoires through which a set of political ideals found aesth...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price £10.00

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 11 August 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • The Barrel of a Gun

    The Barrel of a Gun

    by Ruth First

    Foreword by Christopher J Lee

    A committed communist and anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First dedicated her life to African liberation struggles until her assas­sination by South Africa’s Special Branch in 1982. The Barrel of a G...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price £15.00

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 18 August 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • The Battleground of Art

    The Battleground of Art

    by Marco Baravalle

    Activist and curator Marco Baravalle shows how artists across the Global South and North are building alter-institutions – autonomous, collective infrastructures that challenge both state and marke...
    Ebook
    Preorder Sale price £10.00

    This book will be available for download when it is published on 18 August 2026. You will be charged at the time of your order.

  • Radius

    Radius

    by Yasmin El-Rifae

    During the final months of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, a group of activists came together to intervene in the mob sexual assaults recurring amid the ongoing protests of Tahrir Square. The organiz...