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  • WITCHY/BITCHY

    WITCHY/BITCHY

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

  • Drunk with Marcuse, Dazzled by Deutscher

    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, a thinker to wake up the left

    Herbert Marcuse, a thinker to wake up the left

    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.

  • Mike Davis (1946 –2022): Enemy of the State

    Mike Davis (1946 –2022): Enemy of the State

    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.

  • Mike Davis on becoming a Marxist

    Mike Davis on becoming a Marxist

    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.

  • Literature of the Revolution

    Literature of the Revolution

    The author Hilary Mantel, who died on the 22nd September at the age of 70, is best remembered as the celebrated author of the Wolf Hall trilogy that follows the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. In this interview with John Rees and Paul McGarr, originally published after the release of her great historical novel about the French Revolution A Place of Greater Safety in 1992, she discusses her early political formation on the left, and the relationship between politics and literature.