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The Actuality of Communism

by Bruno Bosteels

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

11 posts
An Argentine Passion

Edited by Rosa Bosch, John King, et al.
The first major study of Maria Luisa Bemberg’s work.
Barbecued Husbands

by Betty Mindlin
Winner of the coveted Associacao Paulista de Criticos de Arte Prize: an anthology of the stories of the tribes of the Amazon.
2 posts
The Beast

by Óscar Martínez

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

25 posts

The Black Atlantic

by Paul Gilroy

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernity

17 posts
The Bolivarian Revolution

by Simon Bolivar

A collection of documents from iconic revolutionary, Símon Bolívar, introduced by Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela.

8 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
Britain’s Empire

by Richard Gott

A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empire

20 posts

Building the Commune

by Geo Maher

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy

24 posts
Building the New World

by Valerie Fraser

The progressive architecture of Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.
C.L.R. James

by Paul Buhle

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

5 posts
Changing Venezuela by Taking Power

by Gregory Wilpert

Venezuela under Hugo Chávez could be a model for peaceful revolution—or it could all be undone by the specters of the past.

4 posts

Che

by Spain Rodriguez

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

12 posts
The Common Wind

by Julius S. Scott

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

11 posts
Crooked Plow

by Itamar Vieira Júnior

Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique blend of magic and social realism won it three literary awards and global acclaim
Cuba on My Mind

by Román de la Campa

“Empathic and critical, connected and removed, knowing and bewildered.”—Raritan Review

2 posts

Damming the Flood

by Peter Hallward
“A marvelous book ... riveting and deeply informed.”—Noam Chomsky
14 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 Dispossessed

by John Washington

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

8 posts
Drawing the Line

by Oriana Baddeley and Valerie Fraser
The most comprehensive account of contemporary Latin American art ever to appear in English.
2 posts

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