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2023 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner

by Verso Books

Dates of revolutionary and radical events
An Act of State

by William F. Pepper

The definitive account of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination

7 posts
Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
15 posts
African and Caribbean Politics

by Manning Marable
Studying Ghana, Guyana and Grenada to discover the problems affecting democracy in the African diaspora.
5 posts

Afrocentrism

by Stephen Howe
“Precise and courageous ... A landmark.”—Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times
Afterlives of Chinese Communism

Edited by Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, et al.

Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao’s communist legacy?

2 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
The Age of Globalization

by Benedict Anderson

“Exciting and important.”– Guardian

10 posts

The Age of Jihad

by Patrick Cockburn

From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East’s disintegration

22 posts
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

by Max Weber

In his neglected masterpiece, Weber brings sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome

1 post
Albion's Fatal Tree

by Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, et al.
Renowned social historians examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society.
6 posts
Algiers, Third World Capital

by Elaine Mokhtefi

A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics

17 posts

America

by V. G. Kiernan

A major historical account of the evolution of American imperialism.

1 post
America's Kingdom

by Robert Vitalis
A groundbreaking account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order.
5 posts
The American Crucible

by Robin Blackburn

How slavery shaped the market economy and abolitionists gave us our ideals

19 posts
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

by Perry Anderson

“One of the world’s great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures.” —Jeet Heer, The New Republic

13 posts

The Amistad Rebellion

by Marcus Rediker
"So gripping that I’m wary of providing spoilers." – Eric Foner, Nation
6 posts
Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy

15 posts
Antagonistics

by Gopal Balakrishnan
A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today.
5 posts
Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England

by Christopher Hill
“Arguably [Hill’s] most flawless achievement.”—Times Literary Supplement
8 posts

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