Why would feminists turn to the police?
Leah Cowan highlights the paradox of criminal legal solutions for violence.
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Verso Book Club Podcast: Jules Gill-Peterson - A Short History of Trans Misogyny
In this second episode of the newly launched Verso Book Club Podcast, Jules Gill-Peterson sits down with our host, Eleanor Penny, to discuss her new book A Short History of Trans Misogyny.
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The Rise and Fall of Labour's New Left
Andy Beckett's The Searchers charts the Labour New Left from its emergence in the late 1960s until it took the leadership of the party under Jeremy Corbyn. Its analysis of the lethal and frequently destructive political skill of the Labour right offers painful lessons for today's activists. -
We need to give people hope
In this interview, Ugo Palheta argues that the Left in France must both resist the threat of fascism and prepare a real alternative to Macronism in order to truly defeat the far right. -
Rereading “On Rereading Doktor Faustus”
For our Jameson at 90 series, Nicholas Brown returns to Fredric Jameson's essay, "On Rereading Doktor Faustus" from his essay collection The Modernist Papers. -
Imagining Utopia
Gerry Canavan reflects on Fredric Jameson's Archaeologies of the Future for this instalment of Jameson at 90. -
The becoming cultural of the economic, and vice versa
Revisiting Fredric Jameson's The Cultural Turn, Xudong Zhang reminds us that, for Jameson, the cultural turn was always also economic. Zhang describes postmodernism's mutually constitutive process of globalizing and totalizing both the cultural and the economic for our Jameson at 90 series. -
School’s out, and the students are our teachers!
Urgent reads for student activists! -
Silly Little Walk Season | Summer Reading
Books on the politics of walking. -
It’s Getting Too Hot to Handle (it’s a Climate Crisis)
Our essential climate reading for fighting in a world on fire. -
I don't dream of labour... I dream of the beach
This summer we're dreaming of less time spent at work, and more time spent at the beach. -
Why Don't We Just Print More Money?
Our Economics Summer Reading!
