Verso: 737 books
Bloody Nasty People
The Rise of Britain's Far Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
The past decade in the UK saw the rise of the British National Party, the country’s most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, ‘enforced multiculturalism’ and benefit ‘scroungers’,...
Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese...
Municipal Dreams
The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A narrative history of council housing—from slums to the Grenfell Tower
Urgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national story of housing to life.
In this landmark reappraisal of council housing, historian John Boughton presents an alternative history...
Dirty Secrets
How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What happens when the rich are allowed to hide their money in tax havens, and what we should do about it
The Panama Papers were a reminder of how the superrich are allowed to hide their wealth from the rest of us. Dirty Secrets uncovers the extent of the corruption behind this crisis and shows...
The Obama Syndrome
Surrender at Home, War Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Written early in 2010 and initially published in September 2010, The Obama Syndrome predicted the Obama administration’s historic midterm defeat. But unlike myriad commentators who have since pinned responsibility for that Democratic Party collapse on the “reform” president’s lack of firm...
by Andre Gorz
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In this major new book, André Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work and the structure of the workforce, Gorz explores...
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
1843 to Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A clear and compact guide to Marx’s road to Das Kapital
Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx’s economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a series of crystalline chapters, he provides an overview of subjects central to...
Really Existing Nationalisms
A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An impressive re-examination of the theories of Marx and Engels on nationalism
Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two thinkers had a sophisticated insight into...
Buying Time
The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The aftershocks of the economic crisis that began in 2008 still rock the world, and have been followed by a crisis in democratic governance. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding as to precisely what is happening and how it started.
In this new edition...
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental work
US Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and...
Intern Nation
How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Millions of young people—and increasingly some not-so-young people—now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices, legislative backrooms, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, map the human genome, and pick up garbage. Intern Nation...
Private Island
Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
“The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public itself. it’s us.”
In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal...
by Stephen Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
75 years after the Beveridge Report: The shocking extent of hardship in the UK
Right now in the UK, 13 million people live in poverty; one in five children subsist below the poverty line. Figures such as these suggest devastating repercussions for health, education and life expectancy. The...
Whiteout
The CIA, Drugs and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
A shocking expose of the CIA’s role as drug baron. On March 18, 1998, the CIA’s Inspector General, Fred Hitz, told astounded US Reps that the CIA had maintained relationships with companies and individuals that the Agency knew to be involved in the drug business. More shocking was the revelation...