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The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

44 posts
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

19 posts
Russia without Putin

by Tony Wood

How the West’s obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia

9 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

1 post

Kitchen Curse

by Eka Kurniawan

Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first time

5 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?

3 posts
Poets of the Chinese Revolution

by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, et al.

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

2 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

3 posts

The Other

by Ryszard Kapuściński

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European

2 posts
Uprising in Pakistan

by Tariq Ali

Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolution

4 posts
Revolution in the Air

by Max Elbaum

The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968

17 posts
On Practice and Contradiction

by Mao Zedong

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

6 posts

The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism

by Achin Vanaik
The definitive analysis of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and the challenges for the radical Left
6 posts
The Art of Cloning

by Pang Laikwan

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity

4 posts
The Soviet Century

by Moshe Lewin

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fall

10 posts
The WikiLeaks Files

by WikiLeaks

What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire

18 posts

Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

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

12 posts
China’s Twentieth Century

by Wang Hui

An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century

10 posts
Tibet on Fire

by Tsering Woeser
Why Tibetan monks are setting themselves on fire
5 posts
The Seasons of Trouble

by Rohini Mohan

“Gripping and profoundly moving ... an astonishing feat of reportage.” – NPR Guide to 2014’s Great Reads

8 posts

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