Verso Books: 696 books
Lights in the Distance
Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Immersive, engrossing report on the European refugee crisis
A mother puts her children into a refrigerator truck and asks, “What else could I do?” A runaway teenager comes of age on the streets, sleeping in abandoned buildings. A student leaves his war-ravaged country behind because he...
Politics in a Time of Crisis
Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A manifesto for a new, democratic left: a political programme poised to transform Europe
Since 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical left party in Spain that is reframing the nature of modern politics. Under his guidance, the party has unmasked the ideological motives behind European...
The End of the Revolution
China and the Limits of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The End of the Revolution shatters the myth that China’s recent history has been a miracle of progress. In this original and wide-ranging study, Wang Hui examines the intellectual roots of his nation’s social and political problems, arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current...
Uprising in Pakistan
How to Bring Down a Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolution
Even as they were taking place, the events that shook Pakistan in 1968–69 were underplayed in the Western media. Following a long period of tumult, a radical coalition—led by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto—brought down the military regime of Field Marshal...
The Burning Forest
India's War Against the Maoists
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
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
Over the past decade, the heavily forested, mineral-rich region of Bastar in central India has emerged as one...
by Walter Rodney
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution,...
Public Sphere and Experience
Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The “public sphere” is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge...
The Prophet
The Life of Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that...
Hegemony And Socialist Strategy
Towards A Radical Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings,...
by Kees Van Der Pijl
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
With The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the global economy. This landmark study dissects one of the most decisive phenomena of the twentieth century—the rise of an Atlantic ruling class of multinational...
Shattered Hopes
Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
President Barack Obama’s first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondently admitted to those waiting for words of encouragement, “It is a hard slog to work through all of these issues.” Contrast this gloomy assessment with Obama’s...
Strike for America
Chicago Teachers Against Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century—and perhaps for the last forty years—and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more charter schools and tying teacher salaries to standardized...
by James Meek
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit, by Orwell Prize winning journalist
Since Britain’s 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has been profoundly split: one side fantasizing that the referendum will never be acted upon, the other entrenched in questionable assumptions about...
European Nations
Explaining Their Formation
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
One of the world’s leading theorists of nationalism offers a new synthesis
In the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation-formation, and patriotism. A mass of literature has grown around these vexed issues, muddying the waters,...