Join Verso tomorrow for a discussion with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Golnar Nikpour, Ervand Abrahamian, and Afshin Matin-Asgari. March 10 - 6pm UK/2pm EST/11am PST. Register below! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

The US and Israel have launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. Join us for an urgent discussion on March 10, at 1pm EST/6pm UK. RSVP at the link below! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

Mir Houssein Mousavi led Iran’s Green Movt in 2009. He ran for pres & received immense support from the Iranian ppl. Millions voted 4 him in an election w/high turn out. But the vote was stolen by the govt, leading 2mass protests. Mousavi & others were put under house arrest /n x.com/tparsi/statu...

My latest in @currentaffairs.bsky.social w Eric Reinhart. www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-ho...

What the fuck

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Shop the Verso Big Sale! For a limited time and only while supplies last, we've discounted select titles by 60%. Don't miss out – this is the highest our discounts will go!

A mini syllabus (Including four free books!) for understanding ICE.

On the anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, I discuss its legacy and the impetus for my forthcoming book, Counterrevolution in Egypt. @versobooks.bsky.social

No dungeon in hell deep enough

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

In stark contrast to the US ambassador, the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN presents an articulate and nearly wholly accurate description of all the ways in which the U.S. aggression against Venezuela violated international law, from 2:01:40-2:11:21 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k...

Tribute to Michel Aglietta in @newleftreview.bsky.social: "a tireless thinker, committed to the proposition that we should aim to comprehend our changing historical times in their totality, which meant grasping the inter-relationships of their many moving parts." newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...

Gift subscriptions to NLR come with full access to the archive from 1960 to the present—1000s of articles, including classics from Adorno, Althusser, Brenner, Butler, Harvey, Jameson, Williams; Benedict Anderson, Mike Davis, Nancy Fraser, Ellen Meiksins Wood and many more. newleftreview.org/p/bsk

Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

New podcast episode on the global expansion of state capitalism, the weakness of capital, the end of neoliberalism, techno-fascism,and progressive politics, with @bungacast.bsky.social, the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History. bungacast.com/2025/10/13/5... @campolis.bsky.social

Out today - Gaza: The Story of a Genocide This is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. These works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people.

Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani

Saturday, 18 October! www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

Join Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, Rebecca Karl, and Tariq Ali for an urgent discussion on China's evolving role on the world stage on Saturday, 4 October, at 6.30pm. Tickets are free with registration!

This footage of Trump and Federal Reserve chairman Powell at the Federal Reserve construction site is absolutely amazing. What a time to be alive.

🚨Cover reveal alert!🚨 “Gaza: The Story of a Genocide,” edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro, is coming from Verso Books on October 7, 2025. Read more about the book, and how the cover, designed by Chantal Jahchan, came to be in the link below.

The next Verso Palestine Pamphlet from Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah is here 🇵🇸

look at what was just delivered it’s the @pashukanist.bsky.social & co. masterpiece that everyone should read & it looks even more 🔥🔥🔥 than online & IT HAS THAT FRESH BOOK SMELL (in case you needed another reason to ordered it right this moment)

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

You should pre-order this. Trust me. Or better yet, don't take my word for it, read Rob's thread where he talks about some of the content and that will convince you.

In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.

Our NEA grant was canceled. Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.

A year ago, the Columbia Palestine encampment sparked a movement that spread across the globe. As the Trump admin wages a fresh war against students, Francesco Anselmetti argues that campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

Now up on the Verso Blog: an excellent essay analyzing the political conditions on university campuses and the strategic avenues available to students (and faculty) committed to the struggle for a free Palestine

“How do we protect each other? Who will be targeted next? Can anyone consider themselves truly safe?” Questions very relevant to Uk unis

It's @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social on his fascinating depressing book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade, history of labor leadership's Cold War imperialist machinations abroad—and at home. Guest host @micahuetricht.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/blue...

Tearful farewell of father and son as family members board ship in A Coruña harbour bound for Buenas Aires in Nov 1957. Iconic shot by Manuel Ferrol encapsulating the trauma of Galician emigration forced by economic hardship +by extension similar worldwide. Don't know colouriser.

"In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all." inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

Freedom for Capital Not People charts the theoretical developments responsible for reshaping today's world economy, unleashing capital against democracy. Finally coming out in English, in June with @versobooks.bsky.social. Thanks @quinnslobodian.com

Detroit nurses win the biggest NLRB election of the century so far www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

"The Democrats have nothing to offer as an alternative but a simulacrum of MAGA politics stripped of the libidinal pleasures of rage and transgression .. If Democrats can introspect honestly, they will recognize in themselves the mirror image of this grotesquerie" www.thedriftmag.com/editors-note...

I am helping to assemble the slideshow for Jameson’s memorial and so we are looking for photos. So if you have any, or know anyone who might, please get in touch, or please just spread the word!!

me and some friends are going long on the CIO. the podcast's called Fragile Juggernaut and you can listen anywhere you get your podcasts. we'll have what I suspect will be a substantial newsletter with it so if you want that, or just want to support us, subscribe: www.patreon.com/FragileJugge...

In his notification to Congress about yesterday’s drone strike in Baghdad, among the authorities he cites is the very 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force that is officially his policy to repeal.

📢NEW EPISODE📢 Sai Englert on the history of settler colonialism - from the British colonies in North America to the Portuguese empire in Brazil, and from apartheid South Africa to the Zionist project in Palestine: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Morehouse College transferred every penny of debt they held in collections to the Debt Collective, amounting to $10M for 2800 students. Instead of collecting on it, we canceled it all completely. This is a no strings attached gift. www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...

Israel has issued a censorship order directing media to “submit to the Censorship all materials dealing with the activities of the Israeli Defense Forces.” Read the full order here:

The Red Cross is having to hand out sleeping bags to people recently granted refugee status who are now having to sleep rough. The Home Office had to be pushed to act by intense lobbying from councils and charities - and even then, it’s only a temporary pause in evictions until 2 January

Over 900 Penn faculty warn of 'hostile takeover' by trustees, donors in response to Marc Rowan letter