Verso Books: 696 books
Planet/Cuba
Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel era
Cuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (1966–69), the most ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French structuralism. Inspired by their teachers Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, the editors of the Cahiers sought...
Age of Folly
America Abandons Its Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror
In office as President of the United States, Donald J. Trump is undoubtedly a menace, but he isn’t a surprise. He embodies the spirit of an age of folly abandoned to conspicuous consumption...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Co-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, Michael Hardt examines the Declaration of Independence and other texts by Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy provides a biting critique of the current American administration. Introducing this collection of Jefferson’s...
Women, Resistance and Revolution
A History Of Women And Revolution In The Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution...
The Age of Jihad
Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East’s disintegration
The Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of today’s Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present. Beginning with the US-led invasion...
Trampling Out the Vintage
Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Winner of the 2012 Hillman Prize in Book Journalism.
In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan “Yes, we can”—in the form “¡Sí, Se Puede!”—winning many labor victories, securing collective bargaining rights for farm workers, and becoming a major voice...
by Richard Gott
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chávez places the country’s controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. Welcomed in 1999 by the inhabitants of the teeming shanty towns of Caracas as their potential...
by Chris Bambery
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
A People’s History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest of the treacherous Thatcher era.
With...
Police
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement
It doesn’t take firsthand experience to learn the meaning of pain compliance or rough ride.
Police: A Field Guide is an illustrated handbook to the methods, mythologies, and history...
If They Come in the Morning...
Voices of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power
One of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to...
by Jodi Dean
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
How do mass protests become an organized activist collective?
Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we...
Street Fighting Years
An Autobiography of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
One of the world’s best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement
What makes a young radical? Reissued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, Street Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of an era of hope and passion as Tariq Ali tracks the growing significance...
Threads
From the Refugee Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
A heartbreaking, full-color graphic novel of the refugee drama
In the French port town of Calais, famous for its historic lace industry, a city within a city arose. This new town, known as the Jungle, was home to thousands of refugees, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, all hoping, somehow,...