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The Romance of American Communism

by Vivian Gornick

Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life

11 posts
The Burmese Labyrinth

by Carlos Sardiña Galache

A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Myanmar and the origins of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas

2 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
Victors’ Justice

by M. W. Weir and Danilo Zolo
International tribunals are shown to be little more than a tool of Western imperialism.

Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden

by Branko Marcetic

A deep dive into Joe Biden’s history and the origins of his political values

7 posts
Planetary Mine

by Martín Arboleda

A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries

3 posts
General Election 2019

Edited by Verso Books

Free Ebook: essays from Melissa Benn, Danny Dorling, Maya Goodfellow, Frances Ryan, James Meek, George Monbiot, and more.

3 posts
Liberalism at Large

by Alexander Zevin

Path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supporters.

7 posts

Brazil Apart

by Perry Anderson

Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula’s Workers’ Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right

6 posts
Empire of Borders

by Todd Miller

The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process

9 posts
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
American Breakdown

by David Bromwich

How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there

7 posts

Riot. Strike. Riot

by Joshua Clover

Political theorist Joshua Clover theorizes the riot as the form of the coming insurrection

55 posts
The Groundings with My Brothers

by Walter Rodney

A remarkable book on the international operations of racism and the global meaning of Black Power

27 posts
Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

by James Meek

The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit, by Orwell Prize–winning journalist

7 posts
Never-Ending Nightmare

by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval

The authoritarian face of neoliberalism

3 posts

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
Civilization

by Régis Debray

American civilization’s dominance over Europe—and what to do about it

2 posts
Europe’s Fault Lines

by Liz Fekete

An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-right

24 posts
Fascism and Dictatorship

by Nicos Poulantzas

A compelling analysis of fascism, replete with insights into the authoritarian movements and states of our time

20 posts

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