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Known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan has now been singled out as Obama’s “just war,” the destination for an additional thirty thousand US...

Carl Schmitt’s thought serves as a warning against the dangers of complacency entailed by triumphant liberalism. His conception of politics is a sh...

Strange and scary days for an ecology movement that was conceived in fierce opposition to power. Fractured, as ever, by divisions and competing age...

TURNING CITIZENS INTO ENEMIES, NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTS HAMSTRING DEMOCRACYMargaret Thatcher’s mantra ‘there is no alternative’ was not a statement o...

A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the street In this sparkling...

Few concepts in social theory have been used so extravagantly in recent years as the notion of power. Yet, despite its inflated presence, the term ...

Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really worksThe City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest internation...

Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really worksThe City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest internation...

A historical look at the emergence of fascism in EuropeDrawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and development a systematic comparative appr...

The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of comm...

The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World is an original and provocative reconstruction of 1,400 years of classical antiquity. Sharply written,...

A new Cold War has developed between competing blocs of countries over the role of financial markets versus the state in the provision of pensions ...

The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febv...

Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryA remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern ...

A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberationWhen the state recedes, t...

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...

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...

“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parl...

This modern edition of the political call-to-arms whose “influence has been surpassed only by the Bible” highlights Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’...

A new beautiful edition of The Communist Manifesto, combined with Lenin’s key revolutionary tract It was the 1917 Russian Revolution that transform...

A provocative essay on the relationship between communism, philosophy and language.Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rationa...

Rosa Luxemburg's corruscating politics texts on the 1905 RevolutionThis collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to t...

Part Four of a comprehensive collection of Rosa Luxemburg's writing This 600-page volume of Luxemburg’s Complete Works contains her writings On Rev...

Part Four of a comprehensive collection of Rosa Luxemburg's writing This 600-page volume of Luxemburg’s Complete Works contains her writings On Rev...