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05/08/2025

Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts by Palagummi Sainath is out now!

Three decades after its first publication, it remains unsurpassed in the scope and depth of its reportage.

Get 30% off related books on poverty, drought, and Indian politics when you buy a copy.

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03/08/2025

This new addition to the Verso Book Club moves beyond the initial reading of a book, asking readers to dig into the critical, though often messy, next stage of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.

Each month, we will meet over Zoom to hear from the author(s) themselves, or from a scholar, writer, or thinker who has had a key influence on the topic at hand.

Become a member today and join our September reading group!

The Verso Book Club is a monthly curated subscription service where our members receive best-selling titles in the mail, every new ebook we release, and get 50% off all website purchases. As the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, we believe that a revolution...

31/07/2025

Now available for preorder - Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys

Boris Groys's new book is an intellectual biography of the fascinating and mysterious figure of Alexandre Kojève, discussing his involvement with Hegel’s dialectics, his idea of communism and his vision of a universal empire as the end of history. Kojève proclaimed himself to be a Stalinist and ...

31/07/2025

The emergence of a new left-wing party in the UK, in response to Labour’s rightward shift and its complicity in Gaza, marks a potential transformation of British politics.

More than half a million people have signed up to the call by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana for a new left party. This is unprecedented and we should understand that this new development will reshape British politics in the months and years ahead. What is driving this? Such a huge political develo...

30/07/2025

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism

Out now in paperback - Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant

In this fiery, theoretical tour de force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism and argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and one of its primary tools: health.Written by co-hosts of the hit “Death Pan...

30/07/2025

A deeply reported look at how compounding crises, including the war in Gaza and threats to democracy, have reshaped American politics

Out now - Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics by Ross Barkan

Fascism or Genocide is New York Times Magazine writer Ross Barkan’s sweeping report on the 2024 US election and the decade of political upheaval leading up to it.As in 2020, Joe Biden campaigned on a platform to save democracy, but fewer voters were persuaded this time. During the Democratic prima...

30/07/2025

A hidden history of anticolonial struggle in Africa uncovered

Out now - The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa by Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue and Jacob Tatsitsa

According to conventional wisdom, France’s empire in sub- Saharan Africa ended peacefully. But this book tells a different story. The shocking violence of a secret war roiled Cameroon in the 1950s and ’60s. A mass movement for self-determination had emerged under the leadership of the Union of t...

28/07/2025

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18/07/2025

Now available for preorder - Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, Edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro

An urgent collection of testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage that bear witness to the vast destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people

Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people—their lives, their land, and their future.Ahmed ...

16/07/2025

Summer means long days and warm weather, but what does it mean when the weather has become oppressive and the pace of history has accelerated to such a degree that it's impossible to keep up? Time will tell, but one thing is certain: without a galvanizing, positive conception for what comes after an era of riots, the future will be decided by those we continually struggle against.

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16/07/2025

One thing is certain: without a galvanizing, positive conception for what comes after an era of riots, the future will be decided by those we continually struggle against. Read up.

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15/07/2025

Donatella Della Ratta explores how AI-generated images prepare the public to accept violent political agendas.

Who would have guessed, only a few months ago, that an AI-generated 'fantasy', dismissed as dystopian kitsch and over exaggerated expression of political unorthodoxy, would rapidly take shape as a tenable geopolitical strategy? When virally shared by US President Donald Trump in February 2025, the s...