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Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India

by Dhirendra Jha

The life of Nathuram Godse, the man who shot Gandhi
Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia

by Natalie Koch

A revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West, by way of camels, date palms, and Biosphere 2
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
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume III

by Rosa Luxemburg

12 posts

The Assassination of Lumumba

by Ludo De Witte

Re-issue of a classic investigation into the CIA and Belgian state plot in the Congo

4 posts
Making the Revolution Global

by Theo Williams

How black radicals reshaped the British left

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
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How we Became Postmodern

by Stuart Jeffries

A radical new history of a dangerous idea

9 posts

Not by Omission

by Amnon Kapeliouk

A major new reading of the 1973 war in the Middle East
2023 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner

by Verso Books

Dates of revolutionary and radical events
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women

by Kristen Ghodsee

The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists

3 posts
Proletarian China

Edited by Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace

A century of complex relations between Communists and workers in China

Captives

by Jarrod Shanahan

The definitive history of America’s most notorious jail and the violent rise of New York City’s law-and-order movement

2 posts
Gwangju Uprising

by Hwang Sok-yong, Jeon Yong-ho, et al.

The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion
Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

by David Caute

A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes

by Tariq Ali

A coruscating portrait of Britain’s greatest imperialist

4 posts

We Want Everything

by Nanni Balestrini
The explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969
14 posts
Ecology of Fear

by Mike Davis

A new edition of this classic book on Los Angeles

3 posts
The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism

by Mike Davis

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes - the Avian flu, SARS, and now, Covid-19

3 posts
Race, Place, Trace

Edited by Susan Slyomovics and Lorenzo Veracini

Exploring Patrick Wolfe’s work on settler colonialism

1 post

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