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Verso 2017 Mixtape

by Verso Books

FREE ebook collection of extracts from our top books of 2017
Revolutionary Yiddishland

by Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg

Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition

16 posts
The Leveller Revolution

by John Rees

The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution

14 posts
On Practice and Contradiction

by Mao Zedong

The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Žižek

6 posts

Red Flag Unfurled

by Ronald Grigor Suny

Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century later

4 posts
Terrorism and Communism

by Leon Trotsky

Trotsky and Slavoj Žižek defend revolutionary violence

5 posts
Virtue and Terror

by Maximilien Robespierre

Robespierre’s justification of the Terror in the French Revolution

5 posts
Age of Folly

by Lewis H. Lapham

America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror

12 posts

Collected Works, Volume 1

by V. I. Lenin

Re-launch of the Collected Works of the legendary revolutionary in paperback

6 posts
Grand Hotel Abyss

by Stuart Jeffries

Who were the Frankfurt School—Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer—and why do they matter today?

34 posts
Fanaticism

by Alberto Toscano

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

21 posts
Futures of Black Radicalism

Edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin

With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism

39 posts

The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

by Ron Ramdin

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century

17 posts
No God But Gain

by Stephen Chambers

The decisive role of the illegal slave trade in the making of the United States

7 posts
The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister

by Sandra Rodríguez Nieto

The intimate story of a teenager's murder of his family, from award-winning Mexican journalist.

8 posts
Lavil

Edited by Evan Lyon and Peter Orner

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis

2 posts

The Autonomous City

by Alexander Vasudevan

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city

11 posts
Development Arrested

by Clyde Woods
A new edition of a classic history of the Mississippi River Delta
4 posts
The Origin of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?

39 posts
A People’s History of the World

by Chris Harman

A new edition of the bestselling comprehensive radical history of the planet

8 posts

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