Blog

In this excerpt from The Spoils of War, Andrew Cockburn outlines the internal politics of the US military and the lobbying that keeps the American war machine well-funded.

Receive ALL of our new ebooks every month as well as one or more new books in the mail. Support Verso's radical publishing by becoming a book club subscriber!

Endless commodification, where problems and their solutions pop up on an ever-accelerating conveyor belt of lotions and potions, does little to tackle the underlying problems of dirty production, exploitation and alienation.

TUGSA member Mathias Fuelling on the Temple University strike

Michael Heinrich on Søren Mau's new book, Mute Compulsion.

The current conjuncture demands rigorous analysis if we are to understand the political moment and develop a strategy to respond to it. Alain Badiou undertakes this task, offering thirteen theses on global politics today and suggesting an organizing strategy for the Left given those conditions.

Tom Nairn, who died on Saturday morning, 21st January 2023, made his name with a series of coruscating essays on the British state published in New Left Review and collected in the 1977 book The Break-Up of Britain.  Here, we republish Tom Nairn's classic account of the nature, and the twilight, of the British state.

“Left unexamined is the true beneficiary of air travel and the true driver of emissions: the airline industry itself.” An excerpt from Climate Change as Class War.

An interview with Dylan Riley on Microverses, viewing the present as history, and what sociology has to offer the left

In this excerpt from Images of Class, Jacopo Galimberti discusses interaction between artists and operaismo and autonomia, as well as the debate around "a turn to aesthetics."