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What did it mean to be a Marxist philosopher in the twentieth century? In this 1963 essay, Henri Lefebvre reflects on his life-long commitment to Marxist philosophy and all of the contradictions therein.

Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell and Joreen's feminist manifestos.

The inimitable Mike Davis passed away this week, leaving behind a lifetime of political writing that will help socialists sharpen our analysis for generations to come. In this remarkable short essay, Davis describes his own political development through encounters with two of the intellectual giants of his youth, Herbert Marcuse and Isaac Deutscher. 

Herbert Marcuse's ideas animated young people's protests in 1968, but today he's rarely discussed. Simon Blin argues that it's time to return to Marcuse's radical ideas in order to think anew about the struggles we face today.

Ciarán O'Rourke remembers the work of Mike Davis (1946-2022)

Verso is extremely sad to announce the death of our friend and comrade Mike Davis, the pioneering historian of the US working class and fierce critic of the economic, political, and military apparatuses of the US state machine and the brutalities of empires in general.

After losing a coveted niche in the trucking industry, I started UCLA as an adult freshman, attracted by rumors of a high-powered seminar on Capital led by Bob Brenner in the History Department.

Adam Shatz's classic profile of Mike Davis from 1997. Shatz touches on the writing and success of City of Quartz, Davis's time working at New Left Review, and his general refusal to uncritically follow the postmodern trends of class-skeptical left intellectual life into the late 20th century.

An ecological transition is essential to ensure the continued habitability of our planet, but any such transition will be unsuccessful if it does not come as much from below as from on high. In this article, Cédric Durand and Razmig Keucheyan outline the path to a democratic green transition. 

Political theorist George Comninel, author of Rethinking the French Revolution, passed away in August 2022. In this critical obituary, Jordy Cummings reflects on Comninel's scholarship and complicated political life. 

The Tories must find new ways of winning over the rising generation of voters. Not a simple task.