Verso Books
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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
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Verso visited Trevor Paglen's studio to discuss images, mind control, MKUltra, PSYOPs, and his new book, How to See Like a Machine. Full video in link below
The hosts of @thiswreckage.bsky.social recently visited our offices in New York City to make their way through the Verso Archive - watch the full video in the link below.
Matthew Cole on how as app-based gig work becomes increasingly common, exploitation grows more sophisticated and harder to detect. youtu.be/7DdCA5yvTjw?...
"Class is not static, it is in constant movement." Callum Cant and Matthew Lee on how working class knowledge production is essential for building working class movements. youtu.be/68t7lCMa7h0?...
“The political task of today is building a level of working class self organisation where people feel confident enough that they can change the way their workplace is ran.” youtu.be/68t7lCMa7h0?...
This coming Sunday @KGBBarRedRm, join the Car Crash Collective and Verso for the launch of Nicola Maye Goldberg's "Other Women".
Are you in Los Angeles? Come find the booth we're sharing with @haymarketbooks.org at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend. We've got limited run, festival exclusive tee-shirts!
Our Theory Sale ends TONIGHT! Don't miss you chance to save 40% on a selection of key texts both old and new, including our entire Radical Thinkers series
Toufic Haddad gives an update on his unlawful dismissal case against a UK institution in Jerusalem and its relevance to pro-Palestine censorship in UK and Western institutions. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
For over a century International Women's Day has been a site of workers’ strikes and collective action. We're celebrating by offering 30% off a selection of key texts on radical feminist theory and history. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5...
In the Islam Quintet, Tariq Ali tells the story of the clashes between European Christendom and Islamic civilisation. Out now in beautiful new editions! youtu.be/4BXj1KpqE9w?...
"The Assembly reaffirms its will to march 'with the whole world and not just a part of it'." In response to the Trump administration’s escalation of the illegal blockade on Cuba, we've made the ebook for "The Declarations of Havana" free to download. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
Join Verso and @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social for an event on translating theoretical texts. Paul Reitter and Patrick Lyons will discuss the trials and thrills of translating leftist critiques from one chronology and geography to another.
Congratulations to Tom Geue for winning the 2025 ACIS Publication Prize for Established Scholars for Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro. versobooks.com/products/312...
The murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht constitutes one of the great tragedies of the twentieth century. Read an excerpt from The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg, Klaus Gietinger's careful reconstruction of that fateful night. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4...
“All the way through Austen’s novels you have references to women working.” Women’s work in Jane Austen’s novels is ubiquitous, continuous, and economically very important. youtu.be/no989hLT0rY?...
Kate Evans describes how central fabric is to the story of Empire, and the threads that connect this to Jane Austen’s life and works. youtu.be/no989hLT0rY?...
Who was the real Jane Austen behind the twee, touristy image we so often see? Kate Evans threads together the patchwork pieces of Austen’s own words to tell her story youtu.be/no989hLT0rY?...
Austen’s relationship to marriage and success wasn’t as you might assume. In Patchwork, Kate Evans explores who Austen really was, and what her life looked like. youtu.be/no989hLT0rY?...
VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.
What are the roots of the rift between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana? Oliver Eagleton discusses the future of socialist politics in Britain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITZ...
Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson. RSVP at the link below!
It’s not enough to just pick sides, the factionalism is itself a structural problem with Your Party. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITZ...
