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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
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David Harvey
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New interview with
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sky.social
for the Behind the News podcast about my new book, The Story of Capital.
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Behind the News, 2/5/26
Podcast Episode · Behind the News with Doug Henwood · 02/05/2026 · 53m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-news-2-5-26/id73801817?i=1000748436001
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The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx's masterwork. Preorder now - The Story of Capital by David Harvey
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The Story of Capital
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...
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Grace of God Variety Store Union
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calling it now, book of the year
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Peter Lucas
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I spoke with Paul Heideman about his new book “Rogue Elephant: How Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos” for
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ROGUE ELEPHANT author Paul Heideman on Trumpism and the Republican Party
YouTube video by Verso Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cINuDZsIJIU
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Paul Heideman, author of Rogue Elephant, sits down with Peter Lucas to trace the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, and break down how Republicans went from the party of business to the party of chaos.
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VIDEO: Author Paul Heideman on Rogue Elephant
Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, arguing that its subordination to Donald Trump was not an anomaly, but rather the culmination of processes a...
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"The characteristic of contemporary neo-fascism is war." Christian Laval, co-author of The Choice of Civil War, on the escalation of the neoliberal order through the Trump administration's total war.
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Total war as a neo-fascist mode of government
Trump is carrying out a protracted coup d'état right before our eyes, making his own contribution to the dismantling of liberal institutions and the rule of law. The US president is doing this…
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/total-war-as-a-neo-fascist-mode-of-government?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_blog
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Allegra Lab
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Continuing our book review series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire, Nicolai Hilton engages with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy's compelling compilation of articles in The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe
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The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe - Allegra Lab
Gideon Levy. 2024. The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. New York: Verso. In The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe, Gideon Levy, a
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Charuta Ghadyalpatil
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love a good
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Adrian Dallas Frandle
5 days ago
Reading this with my other hand (
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"Trump is carrying out a protracted coup d'état right before our eyes, making his own contribution to the dismantling of liberal institutions and the rule of law."
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Total war as a neo-fascist mode of government
Trump is carrying out a protracted coup d'état right before our eyes, making his own contribution to the dismantling of liberal institutions and the rule of law. The US president is doing this…
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/total-war-as-a-neo-fascist-mode-of-government?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_blog
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CEU Review of Books
5 days ago
In Feeling at Home (
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, 2025), Alva Gotby addresses the meaning of “home” through various lenses, arguing that solving our current housing crises would revolutionize our everyday lives. Petra Tamášová reviews the book. Read the review here:
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The future possibilities of home - CEU Review of Books
In Feeling at Home (Verso, 2025), Alva Gotby addresses the meaning of “home” through various lenses, arguing that solving our current housing crises would revolutionize our everyday lives. Petra Tamáš...
https://ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-future-possibilities-of-home/
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Dennis Hogan
6 days ago
Do you yearn for
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’s Jameson Reading Group?? Good news: we're back for ONE LAST JOB. In 2 weeks, we'll read Jameson's last book, The Years of Theory, alongside the book's editor Carson Welch and scholar Patrick Lyons. RSVP here for pdfs and zoom link.
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"With ICE’s actions, the United States has entered a new period of open civil war consciously waged by the federal government." Christian Laval on the escalation of the neoliberal order through the Trump administration's total war.
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Total war as a neo-fascist mode of government
Trump is carrying out a protracted coup d'état right before our eyes, making his own contribution to the dismantling of liberal institutions and the rule of law. The US president is doing this…
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/total-war-as-a-neo-fascist-mode-of-government?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_blog
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Congratulations to Tom Geue for winning the 2025 ACIS Publication Prize for Established Scholars for Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro.
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A moving novel of a life transformed by passion, by the Booker Prize-winning author of G. Available for preorder - Corker's Freedom by John Berger
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Corker's Freedom
John Berger, storyteller, critic and political writer, brings us this tender and bittersweet novel of a man’s dreams of freedom and romance. In his sixty-third year, quite unexpectedly, William Corker...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2149-corker-s-freedom
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Now available for preorder - Landscapes by John Berger A brilliant collection of essays, spanning a lifetime’s engagement with art
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Landscapes
Landscapes showcases the development and practice of John Berger’s unique way of seeing. Here he surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished his understanding of the ...
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Stalingrad was liberated on this day in 1943. "Wave after wave of German assaults came within an inch of taking the whole city and were stopped each time as the Red Army and the Stalingrad workers counterattacked and kept a sector of their city - a factory, a bridgehead - free."
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The Decisive Turning-Points
In early November 1942 the Western Allies began their landing in French North Africa. In February 1943 Japanese expansion in the Pacific was halted by the US Navy. In the same month Germany's advance ...
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Grace of God Variety Store Union
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berger year
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noah jodice
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Berger is back, baby.
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Rishi Dastidar
6 days ago
How grand do these look? A good chance to play completist.
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During the first week of Black History Month, we're offering 40% off a collection of both new and classic titles on Black History and Black Liberation.
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Black History Month | Reading List
During the first week of Black History Month, we're offering 40% off a collection of both new and classic titles on Black History and Black Liberation. All titles below are marked down 40%. Discount ...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/2870-black-history-month-reading-list?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bhm26
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عمو حسام
9 days ago
🎧 A podcast episode on my upcoming book with
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Counter-Revolution Explained
Security Cartels, Permanent Emergency, Sisi’s New Republic
https://open.substack.com/pub/3arabawy/p/counter-revolution-explained?r=qcoh3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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A. J. A. Woods
10 days ago
according to the
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and
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, if you want to make good decisions this spring, you should pre-order my book! (as well as
@robinnelee.bsky.social
's 'crash into me', for when you're ready to give into temptation)
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Christopher Schroeder
10 days ago
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Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3031-immediacy-or-the-style-of-too-late-capitalism
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It's the final day of the Verso Big Sale! Don't miss out – this is the highest our discounts will go!
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Shop the Big Verso Sale!
For a limited time and only while supplies last, we've discounted the below titles by 60%. Don't miss out – this is the highest our discounts will go! Ebooks are NOT included in the sale. Check final ...
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Now available for preorder - Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy by Daniela Russ "Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism.” - Andreas Malm
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Working Nature
Daniela Russ argues that the category of ‘energy’ is best understood not in terms of particular material things but as a social relation to nature forged over 200 years of capitalist industrialization...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3344-working-nature
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
11 days ago
Wow - massive congrats
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, can't wait to read 🗃️
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A thrilling intellectual and economic history of workplace control from the birth of capitalism to the modern tech giants. Now available for preorder - Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Henry Snow
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Control Science
What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made these rules? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives? From Caribbean plantations in the 17th century to Amazon warehouses today, the ...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3120-control-science
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Stephen Graham's Cities Under Siege is available as a free ebook. "Superb.. Graham builds on the writings of Mike Davis and Naomi Klein who have attempted to expose the hidden corporate and military structures behind everyday life." - Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times
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Cities Under Siege
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2128-cities-under-siege
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The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow)
11 days ago
60% off select
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ends January 30! Here are some books for harnessing the feminist harpy in us all: - Motherdom, by Alex Bollen - Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?, by Leah Cowan - Set Fear on Fire, by LASTESIS 🔗
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Shop the Big Verso Sale!
For a limited time and only while supplies last, we've discounted the below titles by 60%. Don't miss out – this is the highest our discounts will go! Ebooks are NOT included in the sale. Check final ...
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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby
11 days ago
FREE 📚 alert: I love free things and learning so I’m super grateful for the beloveds from
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and
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for helping us grow in understanding ICE and this moment by sharing FREE books. Download them via this link:
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Lit Hub
12 days ago
A mini syllabus (Including four free books!) for understanding ICE.
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What to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.
Our friends at Verso have prepared this ultra thorough ABOLISH ICE reading list, featuring a number of excellent titles that can help explain how we got here. Histories of American immigration, or …
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Lots of great books, including free ebooks from us and
@haymarketbooks.org
, on the
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guide on what to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.
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What to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.
Our friends at Verso have prepared this ultra thorough ABOLISH ICE reading list, featuring a number of excellent titles that can help explain how we got here. Histories of American immigration, or …
https://lithub.com/what-to-read-to-understand-the-ice-phenomenon/
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The Verso Big Sale ends soon! Don't miss out – this is the highest our discounts will go!
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Shop the Big Verso Sale!
For a limited time and only while supplies last, we've discounted the below titles by 60%. Don't miss out – this is the highest our discounts will go! Ebooks are NOT included in the sale. Check final ...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-verso-big-sale
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How everything from the price of food to energy and housing costs is fixed by remote, unregulated financial markets, and what can be done about it Out today! The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet by Ann Pettifor
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The Global Casino
The global market in money – housed in the offshore ‘shadow’ banking system – holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation’s taxman. Asset managers, private equi...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3258-the-global-casino
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Stephen Graham's Cities Under Siege is available as a free download. "Here’s urban geography as it looks like through the eye of a Predator at 25,000 feet. A fundamental and very scary report from the global red zone." - Mike Davis
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Cities Under Siege
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2128-cities-under-siege
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Antony Carpen
13 days ago
Published in 2020, feels all the more timely today.
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"Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream". Another from
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Reactionary Democracy
Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What Mondon and Winter call ‘reactionary democracy’ is the use of the concept of democracy and its associated understanding...
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"How could an internationalist politics of liberation strengthen effective resistance both to Israel’s genocide in Palestine and to Israeli/American aggression against Iran?"
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Notes on Campist Internationalism
This was a talk delivered at a panel on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at the Historical Materialism Conference in London that took place on 9 November 2025. You can…
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Alva Gotby
13 days ago
My book Feeling at Home is out in paperback today! It's a call for a more radical struggle for housing and a transformed vision of home
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Feeling at Home
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Home grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing – domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to im...
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Melissa Gira Grant
13 days ago
They tried to roll Tom Homan out back when this started—to Chicago, with his sidekick Dr. Phil. They were run out of town, Homan bitching that in Chicago people were too educated about their rights.
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The Paper Cat Bookshop
13 days ago
Thank you
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! Literally free, download below. 👇
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hilzoy
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It looks as though you need to pay for it, but when you put the ebook in your cart and proceed to payment, it shows up as free.
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Publishers Weekly
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Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis, walks through a cloud of tear gas during protests that rocked the city on January 24 in the wake of the shooting of Alex Pretti by ICE agents. A video of the bookseller has since gone viral. (Theia Chatelle)
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Stardog the Red
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Hey,
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has a free ebook now too.
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FREE EBOOK! Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.
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Cities Under Siege
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2128-cities-under-siege
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Stu Hennigan
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60% off selected titles
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inc Mike Davis' peerless LA bible City Of Quartz, so fucking cheap i'm tempted to buy another copy on general principle.
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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!
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Shop the Big Verso Sale!
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عمو حسام
14 days ago
Counterrevolution as Process, Not Moment
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The Counterrevolution Against 25 January
Anti-Mubarak protesters march through Nasr City, east Cairo, 29 January 2011. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy. Every year, the anniversary arrives accompanied not only by ritualised remembrance, but by de...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-counterrevolution-against-25-january
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How did Ann Pettifor predict the global financial crisis of 2008? Will the AI bubble burst, triggering the next economic crisis? And is the Green New Deal dead in the water, or a transformative plan B that we can turn to when the next crisis invariably comes?
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2008 Whistleblower On The Next Big Crash | Ash Sarkar Meets Ann Pettifor
YouTube video by Novara Media
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