The Fire Boom | Mike Davis
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.
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Verso Reading Lists
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Free Palestine: A Verso Reading List
A reading list on the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation.
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The Rise of the Far-Right, and How We Fight Back
Books to arm yourself in facing the global rise of the far right.
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Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
Radical political solutions to climate disaster from Andreas Malm, Brett Christophers, Noam Chomsky and more.
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Walter Rodney: A Lightning Rod of Black Working Class Power
Dissecting the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism, and the global meaning of Black Power.
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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual
No understanding of Marxist theory is complete without the work of David Harvey.
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Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
Radical political solutions to climate disaster from Andreas Malm, Brett Christophers, Noam Chomsky and more.
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Mike Davis: Prophetic Marxist Historian and Activist
From Ecology of Fear to Planet of Slums.
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How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
Didier Fassin examines how most Western governments have acquiesced in and contributed to the destruction of Gaza.
