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The release of two recent books on the history of East Germany has reignited debates on the meaning of historical memory in Central Europe. Here, Lizzy Kinch asks what the controversy means about Germany's past and its political future.
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The State of Capitalism: a Letter from the Editor
One of our August Verso Book Club selections. -
Labours of Love: Helen Hester & Sarah Jaffe
Helen Hester and Sarah Jaffe join Eleanor Penny to discuss the care crisis, and how we might organise care differently for a more equitable and free future.
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The Popular Resistance Napoleon Could not Defeat
Chris Bambery, author of A People’s History of Scotland, reviews Ronald Fraser’s Napoleon’s Cursed War, out now in paperback. -
Nancy Fraser talks to Verso Books
In this in-depth interview Nancy Fraser discusses capitalism, gender oppression, Marxism, and the post-left populist moment. -
DYSTOPIAN ON TRIAL: ALICE COLEMAN'S ARCHITECTURAL DETERMINISM
Marking the death of Margaret Thatcher’s favourite urbanist, Alice Coleman, Robert Bevan, the author of Monumental Lies, explores her legacy and shows how her argument on the negative powers of design persist. -
Introduction to Paths of Revolution
The great historian Adolfo Gilly passed away on July 4, 2023. In his honor, we are publishing an extract of Tony Wood's introduction to his book, Paths of Revolution. -
Capital and Culture: Musil's Politics
Robert Musil was one of the great novelists of twentieth-century Europe. A recently translated collection of his essays, Literature and Politics, Drew Dickerson argues, can help us see more clearly the historical and political context of his masterpiece, The Man without Qualities.
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No Hollywood Ending for the Green New Deal
A new documentary, To the End, credits the political activists behind the Green New Deal movement for Biden’s environmental policies. Yet, as Matt Huber writes, the film fails to acknowledge that the inability of green activists to build a mass base was also the cause of the Inflation Reduction Act's limitations.
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Marx’s Literary Style: a Letter from the Editor
"It’s so satisfying when an email like that arrives, like a thirty-year burden of guilt and shame at not having published this book in English being thrown off in a few lines" – Sebastian Budgen, Editorial Director.
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The Dialectic is Growing
Since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter towards the end of 2022, the contradictions at the heart of social media have grown increasingly apparent to both users and commentators. But what is social media, and is there any way to escape it?
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Rebirth of a Small Dark Stranger: The Black Dwarf, the British New Left, and 1968
A new online archive of the full run of The Black Dwarf allows the voices of 1968 to cut through and speak to us directly.