Verso Books: 696 books
by David Macey
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
The classic biography of the radical French philosopher with a new afterword by acclaimed Foucault scholar Stuart Elden.
When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies...
by Klaus Gietinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
On the tracks of the killers of Rosa Luxemburg
The cold-blooded murder of revolutionary icons Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the pitched political battles of post-WWI Germany marks one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. No other political assassination inflamed popular passions...
I, Rigoberta Menchu
An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan...
by John Nichols, Senator Bernie Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their...
Red Rosa
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical...
La Lucha
The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlands
The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juárez have become notorious the world over as hotbeds of violence. Drug cartel battles and official corruption result in more murders annually in Chihuahua...
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)
My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In 1995, in the first contested election in the history ofthe AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation’s largest laborfederation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent ofAmerican private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage sincethe beginning...
A Colossal Wreck
A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of Mark Twain, H.L. Menchken and Tom Paine. Colossal Wreck, his final work, finished shortly before his death in July 2012, exemplifies the prodigious literary...
Extrastatecraft
The Power of Infrastructure Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible...
Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere
The New Global Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Originally published in 2012 to wide acclaim, this updated edition, Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere, includes coverage of the most recent events in the wave of revolt and revolution sweeping the planet—riots in Athens, student occupations in the UK, Quebec and Moscow, the emergence of the...
24/7
Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political...
The Origin of Capitalism
A Longer View
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?
In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth...
The Poorer Nations
A Possible History of the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and told the story of the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement.
With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left it. Since the ’70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled...
Fossil Capital
The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power
The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the...