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To celebrate Earth Day, the authors of The Future Is Degrowth suggest five books to contextualize the demands of a system hell-bent on perpetual growth and to help conceptualize a world centered around a vision of global ecological justice.
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How To Blow Up A Pipeline: A 5 Book Plan
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is in theaters everywhere! Director/co-writer Daniel Goldhaber, producers/co-writers Jordan Sjol and Ariela Barer, and editor Daniel Garber provide a five book plan for confronting the looming climate apocalypse. -
The police: between fantasy and instinct
"The police are workers in violence, it is in this explicit capacity that society delegates them, and it is in this capacity that they have chosen this profession, which one does not choose by chance." In this intervention, Frédéric Lordon argues that violence is intrinsic to the social position of police. -
When the cup of endurance runs over
It begins with a slashed SUV tire...
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How to Access Your Existing Verso Books Account in Our New Store
Our online orders will now be processed through Shopify. Here's how you can access your existing Verso Books account in our new online store. -
Winning for a Moment
The Columbine High School massacre marked a turning point in the eyes of many, in that it implied the conscious creation of a mise-en-scène, given the meticulous preparation and the elaboration of intellectual motivations.
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Against Nature | Raj Patel & Tina Ngata
On a new episode of the Verso Podcast, Raj Patel and Tina Ngata explore the historical connections between the exploitation of nature and people.
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Announcing our re-launched Verso Podcast!
The home of radical thinking: where leading Verso thinkers, activists and authors discuss the big ideas of our time.
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Five Book Plan: Apartheid PR, boycotts and backlash
Hil Aked picks five books on the propaganda of apartheid states, the social movements boycotting them in response to their racially discriminatory policies, and the repressive state-led backlashes these movements face. -
Cruising for a bruising? Critiquing the British Zionist movement (while trans)
An essay from Hil Aked, author of Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity.
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Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity
Hil Aked discusses taboo, terminology, and the racial politics of Israel/Palestine as it pertains to discussion of the ‘Israel lobby’.
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JOINT PRESS UPDATE by Éditions La Fabrique (Paris) and Verso Books (London)
La Fabrique's foreign rights manager Ernest has been released on bail, but charges unknown and his property remains with police. Our colleague has been summoned to London in four weeks’ time by the British anti-terrorist unit.