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A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industriesPlanetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of re...

A critical history of Israel and the Arab–Israeli conflictEminent historian Arno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders, and shifting geopolitical c...

This rich, authoritative history chronicles the Zionist Israeli quest from itsorigins in pre-Great War Europe. Plowshares Into Swords traces the de...

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 whe...

Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of...

Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of...

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red ChinaThe Chinese Revolution, which fought its way to power seventy years ago, was a complex and protracted ...

Poets, Politics and the People brings together for the first time the most important writings on English literature, culture and politics by one of...

Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understan...

It doesn’t take firsthand experience to learn the meaning of “pain compliance” or “rough ride” Police: A Field Guide is an illustrated handbook to ...

A radical guide to the language of policingThis field guide arms activists—and indeed anyone concerned about police abuse—with critical insights th...

How policing became the major political issue of our timeCombining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections ...

Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as “a ...

Over recent years James Dunkerley has established a reputation as one of the most thoughtful and eloquent writers on Latin America. In his latest b...

Ariel Sharon is one of the most experienced, shrewd and frightening leaders of the new millennium. Despite being found both directly and indirectly...

Plasticity into Power works out, through historical examples, a major theme of Unger’s work—the relation between institutional and organizational f...

Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Unger’s ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and e...

This selection of key texts from Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s three-volume Politics presents an explanatory theory of society and a program for socia...

False necessity is the central work in the three-volume series Politics. It presents both a way of explaining society and a program for changing it...

Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figu...

A manifesto for a new, democratic left: a political programme poised to transform EuropeSince 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical l...