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Books to ignite radical ideas.

Key books for understanding Christianity's radical legacy.

What if we could do better than the family?

From anticapitalist theory to abolitionist politics to the cult of Winston Churchill, these books will better your understanding of what happened in 2022.

In 1953, a coup partly orchestrated by the CIA, deposed Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Yet Britain continues to hide its involvement in the affair, codenamed Operation Boot in London. As Jack Taylor writes, releasing classified files now would finally be allow us to examine this imperial event of lasting geopolitical consequence.

We can’t go back but we can learn from the past and must seek a new path.

In this extensive interview, Anne Querrien discusses the Guattarian research group CERFI and her research into the history of mutual education in France.

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast. 

The films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director of the acclaimed 2021 film Drive My Car, have long been filled with allusions to literature and the theatre. Here, Greg Gerke writes on the development of Hamaguchi's work, from 2015's Happy Hour to today, and his cinematic and literary influences.

Come to the 2022 Historical Materialism conference, 10-13 November!

We are pleased to announce the launch of Verso Libros – Verso Books’ new Spanish-language publishing partnership in Latin America and Spain.

We are already living in the throes of an intensifying climate crisis that will define our lifetimes. In this in-depth interview, Andreas Malm reflects on the state of the climate movement today and what demands Left climate activists should be putting forward.