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📢 FREE EBOOK 📢
From the River to the Sea provides essential grounding for the urgent discussions taking place across the Palestine solidarity movement.
Published in collaboration with
@haymarketbooks
, and cover designed by
@thomasgreenwood
!
Download now!
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We stand in solidarity with Palestinian author Adania Shibli, who has been informed that she will no longer receive the 2023 LiBeraturpreis award at Frankfurt Book Fair this week, for her brilliant novel Minor Detail
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Mike Davis: Anybody who knows American history knows at least 30% of America has been protofascist forever. and it's a huge mistake not to understand how deeply reactionary so much of the petty bourgeoise and middle strata in so many parts of the country is.
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We have collated free resources that offer a clear history of the occupation, Israel's military industrial complex, and this latest explosion of violence in Gaza.
This includes 6 free ebooks:
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Solidarity with the students at UT Austin and across the country.
Free Palestine.
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We stand with the campus protesters.
We're now offering free ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions.
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impromptu one day sale: 30% off all Verso titles with discount code "read a book"; 50% off any book if you pair it with one of
@profdavidharvey
's companions using discount code "read a book (marx)"
The only thing worse than "read a book" is "read a book (Marx)"
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“If there was ever a time for fire in the belly and a radical politics of hope, it is now.”
As we grieve and honor the legacy of Mike Davis, we've made his classic book, City of Quartz, free to download.
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We are 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.
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Never forget that billionaires saw their wealth rise by 27% during the pandemic 🙃
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As we honor the legacy of Mike Davis, we've made his classic book, City of Quartz, free to download.
“If there was ever a time for fire in the belly and a radical politics of hope, it is now.”
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FREE EBOOK! Download HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA by Walter Rodney for free - until Friday!
As part of our Student Reading sale, we're giving away free ebooks in September. Don't miss out on this exemplary work, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis:
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Changing the stories we have inherited from colonialism |
@PriyamvadaGopal
We need to challenge the idea that some cultures are the ‘givers’ and the ‘teachers’, and others are the ‘takers’ and the ‘taught’. We need access to other narratives.
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“Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega reveals to New Yorker that “The Origin Of Capitalism” by Ellen Meiksins Wood was her latest read.
“Ellen Wood rehistoricizes marxism & dispels the myth that capitalism was an inevitable outcome of history. This was a must read & did not disappoint!”
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We've made Ten Myths About Israel free to download.
Originally published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
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We're proud to stand alongside other publishers who are calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity.
Read Publishers for Palestine's statement here.
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FREE ebook: If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance. Edited by Angela Y. Davis
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of Black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power
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The End of Policing by
@avitale
is still free to download on our website.
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself.
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The End of Policing by
@avitale
is free to download (ebook) on our website. There is no reforming a system designed to be violent. Burn it down.
If you can, please donate the cost to a Black led local organisation or
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For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world.
Download and read THE PALESTINE LABORATORY for free.
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The problem is not one bad apple, the problem is the racist and oppressive institution of policing.
THE END OF POLICING ebook by
@avitale
is now available for free.
#AbolishThePolice
#derekchauvinisguilty
#justiceformakiyahbryant
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"In Gaza you can witness what the end of the world will look like."
In December, Hudia, a refugee in Rafah, kept a diary of the horrors Israel has been visiting upon Gaza since October.
This is testimonial 18 of our Palestine Uncensored series.
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Kissinger is finally dead. We've been waiting for this day for a long time.
We've partnered with
@jacobin
to release the definitive reappraisal of his murderous legacy: The Good Die Young.
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Trans-exclusionary radical feminism is "a fringe movement that is seeking to speak in the name of the mainstream, and that our responsibility is to refuse to let that happen".
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We have 6 free ebooks available on our site - on the origins of the state of Israel, its military industrial complex, the BDS movement, and more - as well as a wide range of essays and a podcast interview on Israel's relationship with the global far right
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- Free ebooks on the origins of the state of Israel, its military industrial complex, and the BDS movement, and more.
- Essays on how the media has aided in Israeli obfuscation and falsehoods.
- A podcast interview on Israel's relationship with the global far right.
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Thank you for helping announce our one day Andreas Malm⚡️flash sale⚡️
Use the discount code SHOCKING for 40% all of our Andreas Malm titles
Shocking the 'largest independent, radical publishing house'
@VersoBooks
now promotes Andreas Malm, who has previously written favourably of Hamas leaders, its military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and of Islamic Jihad.
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As we continue fighting for a more just world, we've decided to make Alex Vitale's End of Policing available for free download
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"The Beginning or the End of America" ➡️ Read James Baldwin's 1970 letter to Angela Davis
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Imagine if every Book is converted into an Animated Book and made 10x more engaging. AI will do this. Huge opportunity here to disrupt Kindle and Audible.
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"Enshittification," Cory Doctorow's coinage describing the process by which internet media platforms become increasingly unusable and un-quittable, has been named 2023's "Digital Word of the Year."
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We've made The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy free to download.
First published in 2010, Levy shows how the brutality at the heart of Israel’s occupation of Palestine has found its most complete expression in the collective punishment of Gaza
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We stand alongside other publishers who are calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity.
Read Publishers for Palestine's statement here.
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Stuart Hall manning the crèche at the first Women’s conference at Ruskin College, Oxford, in 1970 ✊🏾
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A joint press release by
@Ed_Lafabrique
(Paris) and Verso Books (London) on the detainment (and later arrest) of Ernest Moret, foreign rights manager for the French publisher Editions La Fabrique, under the Terrorism Act, upon his arrival to the UK for London Book Fair.
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We've made
@antloewenstein
's Palestine Laboratory available as a free ebook.
This book shows how Israel uses the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they export around the world
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We stand with the campus protesters.
We're now offering free ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions.
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Today is the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, the biggest Jewish revolt against Nazism anywhere in occupied Europe.
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WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH HEGEL? WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH HEGEL? F***ING NOTHING!
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- Free ebooks on the origins of the state of Israel, the BDS movement, and the history of Gaza.
- Essays on how the media has aided in Israeli obfuscation and falsehoods.
- A podcast interview on Israel's relationship with the global far right.
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Rest in power John Berger (1926-2017) 💔
Listener, grinder of lenses, poet, painter, seer. My Guide. Philosopher. Friend. John Berger left us this morning. Now you are everywhere.
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Fuck you
Our NHS will not be on the table for any trade negotiations.
We’re protecting and strengthening our NHS with more investment and an Australian style, points-based immigration system.
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The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale is free to download (ebook) on our website. There is no reforming a system designed to be violent. Burn it down.
If you can, please donate the cost to a Black led local organisation or
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On the anniversary of Walter Rodney's assassination, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is free to download.
“If Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could not have been more wrong.” — Angela Davis
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The time has finally come.
We're excited to announce that we will be releasing a brand new and official translation of Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend in spring 2025.
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Here we have collated our free ebooks, reading lists and ongoing publishing on the Verso Blog in solidarity with Palestine.
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Andreas Malm critiques Object Oriented Ontology and New Materialism in this new interview on eco-socialism, Palestine, and more!
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Anarcho-syndicalist, Catholic, Marxist, mystic: Simone Weil remains one of the twentieth century's most compelling and enigmatic philosophers.
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"I don't know what to do. I just know I want this haircut."
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Across the world, people standing in solidarity with Palestine in the face of Israel's genocidal siege are being silenced and punished. We are launching a call for stories of censorship and retribution for demanding justice for Palestinians.
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Happy Birthday to Frantz Fanon!
“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe”
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shit shit shit
The reason I’ve already read immediacy is because as soon as verso released the cover I got a microscope and read the whole thing
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Send us as much hate as you like, you won’t be able to top our favourite ❤️
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Free resources for better understanding the occupation of Palestine and the ongoing struggle for liberation.
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Ted still has the old edition. He's missing out on the new afterword which has useful suggestions for moving toward abolition.
Don't be like Ted.
When you’re showing off the next book you want banned with the perfect edges and everything to underscore to everyone you haven’t actually read it
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FREE ebook: Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Edited by
@Jordan_T_Camp
and Christina Heatherton
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Here we have collated our free ebooks, reading lists and ongoing publishing on the Verso Blog.
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Congratulations to
@PriyamvadaGopal
who has been short listed for the Bread and Roses award for Radical Publishing, for her book Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent 🔥 we are so proud to publish this work - see more here:
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The historic role of capitalism is to destroy history — John Berger
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The End of Policing by
@avitale
is free to download (ebook) on our website. There is no reforming a system designed to be violent. Burn it down.
If you can, please donate the cost to a Black led local organisation or
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Remember Vladimir Lenin of the Bolshevik Party? This is him now. Feel old yet?
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Like many of you, we are practising self-isolation and social distancing for the foreseeable.
To open up our reading to as many as possible, we have 80% off ALL our ebooks and 40% off ALL our print books for the next couple of weeks.
Read more here:
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On the 20th April, magistrates will issue an extradition order to send Julian Assange to the US. That order will be signed off by Priti Patel, and there is little chance of this being reversed.
How did we get here?
@NilsMelzer
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Edward Said was born on this day in 1935.
We're proud to have published his final book, Freud and the Non-European.
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Today marks 169 years since the first publication of The Communist Manifesto
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"Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction."
–W. E. B. Du Bois
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Excited to announce Yanis Varoufakis & Pablo Iglesias in conversation, 23rd Oct, London 💥
http://t.co/0kruAsmAm1
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Corbyn's manifesto for spending is "utterly affordable... the Bank of England could find a thousand billion pounds overnight to bail out the banking system or to go to war" –
@AnnPettifor
, political economist & author of The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers
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Marc Augé, the anthropologist who coined the term non-place, passed away yesterday at the age of 87.
In his honor, we're publishing his introduction of the second edition of Non-Places.
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Rejecting capitalist notions of freedom |
@PriyamvadaGopal
Priyamvada Gopal shows how the British tradition of anti-colonialism was heavily influenced by resistance from within the colonies.
She is the author of Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent.
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In tribute to the brilliant Aaron Swartz, his new book (& others) are free to download TODAY
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We are proud to publish this free essay collection in collaboration with
@haymarketbooks
, which includes testimonials from doctors in Gaza.
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"One of the things that neoliberalism wants to get out of the way is democracy" -
@GeorgeMonbiot
on
#neoliberalism
, a "self-serving racket"
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Crooked Plow, called "the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far," which has won three literary awards and global acclaim, is finally out in English.
Don't just take our word for it,
@LulaOficial
says you should read it too.
Com o brilhante Itamar Vieira Junior e seu incrível Torto Arado, na nossa passagem por Salvador. Quem ainda não leu, leia. Um retrato sobre o Brasil profundo e que todos deveriam conhecer.
📷 Ricardo Stuckert
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The Haitian Revolution begins with a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman on this day in 1791.
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Angela Davis on Black Lives Matter, Palestine, and the Future of Radicalism
"Theories of Freedom are Always Tentative"
An interview from Futures of Black Radicalism, edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin.
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"They’re planning jails for kids whose parents haven’t been born yet."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on the new geography of mass incarceration.
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Changing the stories we have inherited from colonialism |
@PriyamvadaGopal
We need to challenge the idea that some cultures are the ‘givers’ and the ‘teachers’, and others are the ‘takers’ and the ‘taught’. We need access to other narratives.
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Leo Panitch sadly passed away on Saturday. Leo was an author, a friend and a comrade of Verso, and his death is a devastating loss for the Left. We have made his latest book - Searching for Socialism - free to download here:
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FREE EBOOK: we've made Feminist City by
@LellyK
- an intersectional feminist approach to our urban spaces - free to download:
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Zoé Samudzi (
@ztsamudzi
) | Dehumanization by Deification: On Kamala Harris and "Black Women Will Save Us"
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Decolonising Desire—On Valentine's Day,
@daliaeldaba
examines the colonial roots of racial grammars of desire
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The WikiLeaks Files PB is 40% off until midnight tonight to celebrate
#wikileaks10
@wikileaks
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