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20/08/2025

✨ New paperbacks ✨

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. Moore and The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right by Oliver Eagleton are out now!

New titles available this week: Everybody Loves a Good Drought by Palagummi Sainath [book-strip index="7"] Buy a copy of Everybody Loves a Good Drought and get 30% off any of the selected titles below. Discount will be applied in cart. Books must be purchased together. [book-strip index="8"] The Cam...

16/08/2025

With the forthcoming Inquiry on the Battle of Orgreave, now's a great time to read Paul Foot's review of Seumas Milne's The Enemy Within, wherein he exposes just how far the British intelligence machine is willing to go to silence political dissent.

With the forthcoming Inquiry on the Battle of Orgreave, we've dug out Paul Foot's review of Seumas Milne's The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners. Originally published in the January 1995 edition of The Spectator, Foot discusses Arthur Scargill, MI5's infiltration of the National Union....

15/08/2025

The scenes that unfolded in Parliament Square on 9th August mark a watershed moment in British politics. 522 people were arrested for holding up cardboard signs in defiance of the prohibition of expressions of ‘support’ for Palestine Action.

The scenes that unfolded in Parliament Square on 9 August mark a watershed moment in British politics. 522 people were arrested for holding up cardboard signs in defiance of the prohibition of expressions of ‘support’ for Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000. According to Defend our Jur...

14/08/2025

✨ Ending today: Verso ebooks are 80% off! ✨

Now is the time to fill your e-reader with monumental works of theory, philosophy, history, and fiction!

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13/08/2025

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by Paris Marx is out now in paperback!

Grab a copy a get 30% off related reading on the technologies that are changing our lives.

New titles available this week: Everybody Loves a Good Drought by Palagummi Sainath [book-strip index="7"] Buy a copy of Everybody Loves a Good Drought and get 30% off any of the selected titles below. Discount will be applied in cart. Books must be purchased together. [book-strip index="8"] The Cam...

11/08/2025

Fill up your e-reader with more books than you could possibly carry in the summer heat.

Until 9th August 2024, enjoy 80% off ALL ebooks! Apologies if you don't have an e-reader, but all our print books are 20% off! Please note that fulfilment of all UK orders of print books is likely going to be delayed until mid-August. See more info here. Free Ebook And as the Olympic Games roll on i...

07/08/2025

Morag Livingstone outlines how the UK government’s forthcoming Inquiry into the 1984 Orgreave clashes marks a long-awaited victory for campaigners and promises to investigate police brutality and potential political interference by the Thatcher government.

Image: Miners run from the police, Orgreave, 18 June 1984 ©Martin Shakeshaft The announcement of a statutory inquiry by this Labour Government is an exciting victory for the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC) after 13 years of persistent and effective campaigning. In response to the announc...

06/08/2025

Dozens of the world’s leading thinkers have signed an open letter calling on the UK government to reverse the proscription of Palestine Action, stop the flow of arms to Israel, cut ties with the genocidal state of Israel, and work to end the starvation of Palestinians.

As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics, we are astonished and dismayed by the current priorities of Keir Starmer and his ministers. On the one hand they continue to offer material, military and diplomatic support to their close ally Israel and its rampaging war machine; on the othe...

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.

New titles available this week: Citizens of the Whole World by Benjamin Balthaser [book-strip index="1"] Buy a copy of Citizens of the Whole World and get 30% off any of the selected titles below. Discount will be applied in cart. Books must be purchased together. [book-strip index="2"] Nightwalking...

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...