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The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

48 posts
Villains of All Nations

by Marcus Rediker
Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations...
3 posts
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

A renowned historian introduces Mary Wollestonecraft’s seminal feminist tract

20 posts
Viramma

by Viramma

An intensely personal and moving self-portrait of a woman living at the very margins of Indian society, informed by a sense of profound social change.

2 posts

Virtue and Terror

by Maximilien Robespierre

Robespierre’s justification of the Terror in the French Revolution

5 posts
War and Revolution

by Domenico Losurdo

Author of the acclaimed Liberalism: A Counter-History dissects the revisionist attempts to expunge or criminalize revolutions

13 posts
A Way of Life That Does Not Exist

by Colin Samson
The tragedies of the Innu, and how some have resisted assimilation.
The Way the Wind Blew

by Ron Jacobs

Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young...

1 post

We Fight Fascists

by Daniel Sonabend

The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War II

2 posts
We Want Everything

by Nanni Balestrini

Explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelist

11 posts
We Want Everything

by Nanni Balestrini
Read the first two chapters of We Want Everything in our ebook sampler: an explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969, by Nanni Balestrini
5 posts
We’re Here Because You Were There

by Ian Sanjay Patel

What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain?

Weimar in Exile

by Jean-Michel Palmier

A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power

5 posts
Where the Boys Are

by Van Gosse
Who Is Rigoberta Menchú?

by Greg Grandin

Leading historian takes on the lies told about Rigoberta Menchú’s bestselling memoir.

4 posts
Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

by Arno Mayer

An acclaimed history of the Holocaust.

7 posts

Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere

by Paul Mason

Eyewitness reporting and shrewd analysis from the many centers of the global movement for liberation.

80 posts
Wobblies!

Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman

A vibrant history in graphic art of the Industrial Workers of the World.

11 posts
A Woman Called Moses

by Jean-Christophe Attias

What if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know?
Wooden Eyes

by Carlo Ginzburg
An illuminating and thought-provoking study of the various meanings of distance.
1 post

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