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The Burning Forest: India’s War Against the Maoists

by Nandini Sundar

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed

4 posts
Red Flag Unfurled

by Ronald Grigor Suny

Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century later

4 posts
Red Flag Wounded

by Ronald Grigor Suny

Tracking the degeneration of the Russian Revolution
Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism

by Nigel Swain

Why did Hungarian socialism—the most innovative in the Eastern Europe—fade away so easily?

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

by R. H. Tawney
A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism
5 posts
The Myth of 1648

by Benno Teschke

Award-winning reinterpretation of the origins of modern international relations.

6 posts
Somanatha

by Romila Thapar
An explosive account, dispelling the myths and inventions of Hindu nationalism.
1 post
The Dignity of Chartism

by Dorothy Thompson

Groundbreaking studies of Britain’s first major working-class movement

8 posts

Gandhi

by Kathryn Tidrick
A major reinterpretation of Gandhi’s life, politics, religion and nation
1 post
Fanaticism

by Alberto Toscano

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations

23 posts
Fire and Blood

by Enzo Traverso

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes

32 posts
Revolution: An Intellectual History

by Enzo Traverso

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century’s age of revolutions

6 posts

Terrorism and Communism

by Leon Trotsky

Trotsky and Slavoj Žižek defend revolutionary violence

5 posts
A Very British Conspiracy: The Shrewsbury 24 and the Campaign for Justice

by Eileen Turnbull

The story of the campaign for justice for the 24 building workers wrongly prosecuted by the state in the 1970s

1 post
Plasticity into Power

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Volume 3 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
The Religion of the Future

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
A new philosophy of religion for a secular world
5 posts

The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting

by Alexander Vasudevan

Updated new edition: A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city

11 posts
2023 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner

by Verso Books

Dates of revolutionary and radical events
Verso 2017 Mixtape

by Verso Books

FREE ebook collection of extracts from our top books of 2017
A History of Gold and Money

by Pierre Vilar
“A work of sweeping scholarship, it is impressive and welcome in English.”—The Economist
6 posts

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