The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaignerIn this hilarious, moving memoir, much-loved children’s poet and political campaigner Michael Rosen recalls the first
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela DavisIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers
A socialist journal edited by gay men in the 1970sAfter the leading organizations of radical sexual politics - the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Group - imploded or dissolved, the Gay Left
Exploring the fury of the young in a world or crisis that seems to offer no alternatives"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of
A sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural, and economic struggles of gays and lesbiansAmerican Homo offers a sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural and economic struggles of les
On the origins of European queer politicsCome Together tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new
"I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together." - Walter RodneyIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney e
In this highly original work Ernesto Laclau continues the philosophical and political exploration initiated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Here he focuses on the construction of popular identitie
Immersive, engrossing report on the European refugee crisisAs the number of people displaced by conflict worldwide rises to its highest level since the Second World War, an unprecedented number of ref
Japan: The "other," lesser-known 1968The analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankf
A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los AngelesRacism has been central to the way that the city of Los Angeles—and all US cities—have formed and grown. There is a long, ugl
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalismThe first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widesprea
How do mass protests become an organized activist collective? Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the polit
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day. We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Just
A bold proposal for new thinking on education: the formation of a National Education ServiceIt is time for a radical shake up of the purposes and practices of our education system. Melissa Benn is one
Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many.Big challenges lie ahead for our society: increased automation of work, and the threat of catastro
Founder of the influential heterodox regulation school offers a new theory of money, tracing it's history back 1,000 yearsThis book's goal is to understand money in all its complexity. As a link betwe
A People’s History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighte
The role of Puritanism in the formation of modern BritainIn order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Profess
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of “critical theory”, Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had re
Twenty years have passed since the Italian Communists’ last Congress in 1991, in which the death of their party was decreed. It was a deliberate death, accelerated by the desire for a &l
An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a h
Re-launch of the Collected Works of the legendary revolutionary in paperbackAmong the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophi
A powerful document of theday-to-day realities of Black women in BritainHeart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been exclude
A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subjectKathi Weeks suggests that one of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop theories of the subject that are adequ
In this distillation of reflections accumulated from a lifetime of travel, Ryszard Kapuscinski takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own
In this new title in Verso’s Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of international banking
One of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropologyAnthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss was among the most influential thinkers of the 20th cent
A never-before-published book by the Pan-Africanist and socialist scholar and revolutionaryIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinke
Old Gods, New Enigmas is the highly-anticipated book by the best-selling author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Mike Davis spent years working factory jobs and sitting behin
Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s
Pakistan 1968: the history of a revolutionThe story of what happened in 1968 in Pakistan is often forgotten, but is proof of a global revolutionary moment. In that year, following years of tumult, a r
How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labour struggles after May 1968In the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national affair. The L
Mexicans and other Latinos comprise fifty percent of the population of Los Angeles and are the largest ethnic group in California. In this completely revised and updated edition of a classic political
A Bernie Sanders campaign advisor reflects on the legacy of the senator’s presidential runSenator Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of
A thrilling new route to a better societyA toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. On
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj iek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecologi
Award-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downOn the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville tells the extraordinary story of t
Re-issue of the classic socialist call to arms in 1968The original publication of the May Day Manifesto in 1968 collected together the most influential radical voices of the era. Amongst the 70 signat
A comprehensive history of the development of Marxist theory and the parameters of 21st-century politicsIn this pithy and panoramic work - both stimulating for the specialist and the accessible to the
