Love and Revolution: The Inessa-Lenin-Krupskaya triangle
“If you fall in love with a struggle, it is easy to fall in love with those who share that struggle and vice versa.”
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Come back, my friend! On reading Ghassan Kanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”
Written for Valentines4Palestine, a series of events held at independent bookshops across the UK to raise money for the PEN Emergency Fund for Palestinian writers at risk, Emily LaBarge reads Ghassan Kanafani’s poem "Letter from Gaza" against the current Israeli assault as a revolutionary love letter to his homeland. -
Masturbation Manifesto 1997
"Could it be that independent orgasms might lead to independent thoughts?" -
"In Gaza you can witness what the end of the world will look like": A diary from Rafah
"...there is nothing here except the pervasive smell of death." In December, Hudia, a refugee in Rafah, kept a diary of the horrors Israel has been visiting upon Gaza since October. This is testimonial 18 of our Palestine Uncensored series.
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Lay all your love on me
What would it mean to theorise love as a form of labour? How can we think of our emotional dependency on other people in political terms, rather than as expressions of individual and interior subjectivity?
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The Rise of Asset Management Firms
Asset management firms have become “universal owners,” managing the total social capital of the United States.
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Roses are Red (and so am I): Red Day Sale
40% off select titles until February 18th @ 11:59pm ET! Add three or more titles from this list to your cart and the discount automatically extends to any Verso book on our site! -
The World and Us: a Letter from the Editor
Part of our March Verso Book Club reading. -
The Reckoning: a Letter from the Editor
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To the Vatican with red flags
On 10 January 2024, Pope Francis received a private audience with a delegation of people who had been participating for several years in a dialogue between Marxists and Christians. Michael Löwy, who was in attendance, recounts the experience in detail. -
In Gaza, “This Isn’t Legitimate Self-Defence. It’s a Genocide”
In France, Jean-Luc MĂ©lenchon has been accused of antisemitism for his opposition to Israel's relentless siege on Gaza. In this interview, MĂ©lenchon explains why the Left must assert a universalist antiracism in the face of Europe's accelerating slide to the far right. -
The Jail is a Monster
Abolition requires we change one thing: everything.
