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Steve Bell on drawing the Miners' Strike for the Guardian, 40 years on.

Donald Trump has been sworn in as America's 47th president. We sat down with Verso authors and others on the left to discuss what can be expected from his second term.

The Jameson Reading Group is a free program dedicated to exploring and popularizing the major works of Fredric Jameson. This project, which is being coordinated in partnership with Verso, Public Books, and the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College, is volunteer-run and open to all.

Could it be that the injustice of this world had damaged us so much that we were no longer even capable of weeping in the face of such carnage?

Up to 50% off select titles until February 2nd. In 2025, resolve to read more radical books!

Radical political solutions to climate disaster from Andreas Malm, Brett Christophers, Noam Chomsky and more.

From Ecology of Fear to Planet of Slums.

Mike Davis’s essay on LA as a locus of ecological destruction, taken from his classic work Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.

Biographies and memoirs of people who've lived extraordinary, complex lives including Andrée Blouin, Rigoberta Menchu, and Toussaint Louverture.

“On the eve of independence, this great country had to undergo such things—to write its history in letters of tears and blood. Poor Congo!”