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Feminist International

by Verónica Gago

A leader of Latin America’s powerful new women’s movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politics

10 posts
The Common Wind

by Julius S. Scott

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

9 posts
The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

48 posts
Who Killed Berta Cáceres?

by Nina Lakhani

A deeply affecting–and infuriating–portrait of the life and death of a courageous indigenous leader

6 posts

The Dispossessed

by John Washington

The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protections

6 posts
The Haitian Revolution

by Toussaint L'Ouverture
Haiti’s ousted premier on the leader of the world’s first black republic
5 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

4 posts
The Hollywood Kid

by Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez

The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster

2 posts

The Declarations of Havana

by Fidel Castro
Speeches by Fidel Castro in response to the US administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, introduced by Tariq Ali
11 posts
The Other

by Ryszard Kapuściński

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

2 posts
Revolution in the Revolution?

by Régis Debray

2 posts
Che

by Spain Rodriguez

The classic graphic biography of Che Guevara—the most iconic revolutionary of the twentieth century

12 posts

C.L.R. James

by Paul Buhle

A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biography

5 posts
A History of Violence

by Óscar Martínez

“A chilling portrait of corruption, unimaginable brutality and impunity” – Financial Times

17 posts
Building the Commune

by Geo Maher

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy

25 posts
The WikiLeaks Files

by WikiLeaks

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

19 posts

My First Life

by Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez’s extraordinary story—in his own words

8 posts
Traces of History

by Patrick Wolfe

How race rose and spread across the globe

26 posts
The Actuality of Communism

by Bruno Bosteels

A new salvo in Verso’s burgeoning series on communism, after Badiou, Žižek and Groys.

11 posts
The Beast

by Óscar Martínez

“A revelatory work of love and hair-raising courage.” – New York Review of Books

25 posts

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