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Books on the family, sexual politics, and comradely love!

New summer reading featuring Hannah Proctor, Adam Greenfield, and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz.

Policing and prisons will not save us from gender based violence. These books offer radical alternatives.

Leah Cowan and Lola Olufemi join The Verso Podcast to discuss feminist futures, abolitionism, and the roots of social violence.

Featuring works from Francis Mulhern, Terry Eagleton, Michele Wallace, and more.

"While the Stonewall rebellion had increasingly been commemorated through the new gender-normative style of the moment, the most criminalized in the community who couldn’t live up to that norm were left behind or unwelcome."

Writing in 2003, Paul Foot contended that successive Labour governments have abandoned any aspiration to economic democracy. Will a Keir Starmer government be any different in 2024?

Omid Montazeri charts the entwined histories of resistance and collaboration between the Iranian marxist and muslim groups and Palestinian liberation since the Nakba, and asks why this shared legacy has been abandoned today.

Oliver Eagleton on Labour leader Keir Starmer’s past life as Director of Public Prosecutions, and what it reveals about the kind of politician he is.

How has technology and the attention economy impacted contemporary art?

Kirk Boyle investigates Fredric Jameson's attempt to confront the challenges posed by the singularity of modernity in the latest instalment of our Jameson at 90 series.

Olivier Neveux revisits Fredric Jameson's Brecht and Method for our Jameson at 90 series.