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Robin Blackburn: A Lifetime of Scholarship on Slavery and its Abolition

Get 30% off The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 when you buy 2 or more books by Robin Blackburn.
Robin Blackburn on the History of Slavery and Capitalism in the Americas

Robin Blackburn in conversation with Kevin Ochieng Okoth about his new work, The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888.
Marx and the autonomous women’s movement: A note on the foundation of women’s sections within the First International

On 19 September 1871, when the First International was holding its conference in London, Karl Marx asked to speak and proposed that the delegates adopt ‘Proposal no. 3’, which recommended ‘the foundation of women’s sections among women workers’.
‘A Marxist Analysis of the Thought of the Young Marx’: Interview with Michael Löwy

In honor of the re-issue of Michael Löwy's book, The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx, the French publication interviewed Löwy about his approach to Marx's work and how his relationship to Marx and Marxism has evolved over time.
A love that is home

“I love you. We get to make up what that storied word means.”
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.”
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.
The Rise of Asset Management Firms

Asset management firms have become “universal owners,” managing the total social capital of the United States.
The World and Us: a Letter from the Editor

Part of our March Verso Book Club reading.
The Reckoning: a Letter from the Editor

Part of our March Verso Book Club reading.