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The Politics of Time | up to 50% off in our New Year Sale!

Up to 50% off select titles until February 2nd. In 2025, resolve to read more radical books!
Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

Radical political solutions to climate disaster from Andreas Malm, Brett Christophers, Noam Chomsky and more.
Mike Davis: Prophetic Marxist Historian and Activist

From Ecology of Fear to Planet of Slums.
The Fire Boom | Mike Davis

Mike Davis’s essay on LA as a locus of ecological destruction, taken from his classic work Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.
Revolutionary Lives | Verso Reading

Biographies and memoirs of people who've lived extraordinary, complex lives including Andrée Blouin, Rigoberta Menchu, and Toussaint Louverture.
How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

Didier Fassin examines how most Western governments have acquiesced in and contributed to the destruction of Gaza.
Ominous Developments Surround Lumumba | Andrée Blouin

“On the eve of independence, this great country had to undergo such things—to write its history in letters of tears and blood. Poor Congo!”
The Southern Questions series

A new series focusing on decolonisation and its aftermath: featuring Andrée Blouin's autobiography, and Adewale Maja-Pearce's uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy.
Read what’s on your favourite writers’ bookshelves

Books endorsed by Jeremy Corbyn, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Edward Said, and more!
Social Murder, Social Rage: the Luigi Mangione Reading List

"If there's an audience with an appetite for blood it was created by the very industry and elites who now condemn it."
Myths About Israel: Ilan Pappé

Ilan Pappé joins the Verso Podcast to discuss false histories, apartheid, and genocide.
New Left Review 150, out now

Matthew Karp charts the continuities underlying Trump’s two victories, probing the causes of voter disengagement at a time of heightened geopolitical tension.