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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
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We have four new titles out this week: a bold reimagining of the life of Jane Austen, an award-winning historian on Britain's most contentious symbol: the high-rise block, a screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and spotlighting liberal civilization in crisis
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This Week's New Titles
New titles available this week: Patchwork by Kate Evans [book-strip index="1"] Buy a copy of Patchwork and get 30% off any of the selected titles below. Discount will be applied in cart. Books must be...
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Jason Read
1 day ago
The episode of Organic Filament Network that was interviewed for is now available on Spotify.
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The Double Shift: Work and the Immanent Life of Capital | Jason Read
Spotify video
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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃♀️
about 23 hours ago
My first two reads for @NonFictionNov25 and @NovNov25 Book reviews – E. R. Braithwaite – “‘Honorary White'” and Louisa Yousfi, trans. Andy Bliss – “In Defence of Barbarism”
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#booksky📚💙💡
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Dissent Magazine
about 20 hours ago
Next Thursday, join us for a conversation with
@die-linke.de
's Heidi Reichinnek, Ross Barkan, and
@lukashermsmeier.bsky.social
on left-wing politics in Germany and the United States. Register here:
www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/event-n...
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[EVENT | November 13] A Conversation With Heidi Reichinnek - Dissent Magazine
An event with the German Left Party's parliamentary co-leader.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/event-november-13-a-conversation-with-germanys-left-party-leader-heidi-reichinnek/
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Lit Hub
2 days ago
Why carbon offsetting (and big business) will not save the planet.
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Carbon Offsetting is Not Going to Save the Planet
There is not enough planet Earth to first turn it inside out and then turn it outside in again. Available resources do not allow for removal of the total aggregate of CO2 from the fossil fuels in s…
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In These Times
2 days ago
Yesterday, Dick Cheney, the most powerful vice president in U.S. history, died at 84. His legacy: torture, secret prisons, and wars that killed millions.
@alfatau.bsky.social
examines the empire he built—and the impunity he enjoyed.
inthesetimes.com/article/dick...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
3 days ago
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-laidoff-teen-vogue-editors-recover
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Joseph A Marchal
3 days ago
Check this out! Elizabeth Castelli’s splendid translation of Pasolini’s screenplay on St Paul is now in paperback from
@versobooks.bsky.social
!! Order today!!!
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Dan Hancox
3 days ago
🟡 MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World is out in paperback from
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today 🟡
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Natasha Lennard
2 days ago
Mamdani’s win marks a rejection of the consistently Islamophobic weaponization of antisemitism. Diehard support for the Zionist project is, finally, not a sine qua non of New York City leadership...
@theintercept.com
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They Tried to Smear Zohran Mamdani as an Antisemite. Voters Saw Right Through It.
Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York City means so much — including the repudiation of Islamophobic attacks and weaponization of antisemitism.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/zohran-mamdani-antisemitism-islamophobic-israel/
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Protean Magazine
2 days ago
From the pages of Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps --
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Dissent Magazine
8 days ago
A recording of our event with
@chiosse.bsky.social
,
@ceaweaver.bsky.social
, and
@jwmason.bsky.social
about how Zohran Mamdani can deliver on his agenda as mayor is online now. Watch here:
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[RECORDING] How Will Zohran Govern? - Dissent Magazine
A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/recording-how-will-zohran-govern/
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Today is David Harvey's 90th birthday! To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works
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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual
October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works. Be sure to check out David Harvey at...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/david-harvey-radical-marxist-intellectual
7 days ago
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Peter Harrison
7 days ago
There is no better writer today to help you understand Marx. Happy Birthday
@davidharvey.org
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King's Global Affairs
7 days ago
📢 Book Talk": The Long Heat, Climate Politics When It’s Too Late Join Andreas Malm & Wim Carton for a vital discussion on climate politics in the age of overshoot. 📅 Nov 6 | 🕕 6-8PM GMT 📍KCL, Strand Campus, London 🎟️ Free tickets:
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Dave Strock
7 days ago
Happy birthday to my favorite geographer!
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Today is David Harvey's 90th birthday! To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works
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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual
October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works. Be sure to check out David Harvey at...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/david-harvey-radical-marxist-intellectual
7 days ago
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Stuart Elden
7 days ago
I've shared the
@versobooks.bsky.social
series before - but new pieces being added still -
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Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/harvey-at-90-a-verso-series
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8 days ago
THIS MONTH! 'Extractive Capitalism'
@versobooks.bsky.social
),
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
, 'Africonomics' (
@thenewpassion.bsky.social
) Bronwen Everill, 'The Cost of the Cloud' (
@nybg.bsky.social
) Ashley Dawson, 'Enshittification' (
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
) Cory Doctorow.
www.patreon.com/posts/new-bo...
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NEW BONUS PATREON EP! October in Review (part one) and a 2005 Nazi Warning | This Is Hell!
Get more from This Is Hell! on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-bonus-ep-in-142421739
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London Review of Books
9 days ago
‘“Hey it’s Sandra from the bar how are you?” “Pig butchering” begins with a text message like this. Between 2020-24, an estimated $75 billion was swindled through the ancient art of feigning romantic interest.’ Alexander Clapp on cyber-slavery and the scam industry.
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Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n20/alexander-clapp/pig-butchering
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Stuart Elden
8 days ago
"October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works."
@versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual
October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works. For fifty years David Harvey has wri...
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/david-harvey-radical-marxist-intellectual?_pos=4&_sid=560b08894&_ss=r
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Kate Evans
8 days ago
Patchwork is LAUNCHED! Here's an exclusive look at the tapestry I unveiled at The Cartoon Museum. It was epic!
#janeausten
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins
8 days ago
For more about how racist borders create unsafe routes and how humanitarian solutions are not the solution read my book... Available from
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www.versobooks.com/products/277...
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Humanitarian Borders
*Winner of the International Political Sociology book award for 2023*What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and suffering at the border? This book interrogates the pol...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2776-humanitarian-borders?srsltid=AfmBOopCDpH0l9UX29uR2Ccp38qNM-NxW_m5zjP_zNk7TnwoAqDHReKF
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𝙰 𝚂𝚄𝙽𝙽𝚈 𝙳𝙰𝚈
8 days ago
Cool offering from
@versobooks.bsky.social
: "October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works." "His works are essential to understanding Marx's Capital, and the carnage of capitalism."
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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual
October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works. For fifty years David Harvey has wri...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/david-harvey-radical-marxist-intellectual?utm_source=klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=harvey90&_kx=IB-9cwZ8G8BQ2RW4tXdOOPFClE1Gx5dFY2GHKe_M1X8.SNgHad
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Grist
10 days ago
So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why. In "The Long Heat," Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.
grist.org/culture/clim...
#BookSky
#Books
#Climate
#Tech
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So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.
In "The Long Heat," Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.
https://grist.org/culture/climate-capitalism-tech-the-long-heat-malm-carton-book-review/
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NPR
11 days ago
While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such artistry is the heart and strength of Kate Evans' delightful and illuminating work.
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'Patchwork' pieces together Jane Austen's personal life
While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such artistry is the heart and strength of Kate Evans' delightful and illuminating work.
https://n.pr/3Wp287a
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Tahneer Oksman
11 days ago
Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! For @npr, I reviewed a fantastic new graphic biography by Kate Evans, Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen:
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
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'Patchwork' pieces together Jane Austen's personal life
While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such artistry is the heart and strength of Kate Evans' delightful and illuminating w...
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5584949/jane-austen-patchwork-review-graphic-novel?fbclid=IwY2xjawNsRj5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHktq4evFHBYuqHZFXk1W4Ylx4xSXF9VU3wAvtbGs3fIb8XYD0X5ptqXIt4a0_aem_uXOGZQdD3QliAHbUsGkgWg
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The New Arab
9 days ago
Book Club 📚 In 'Gaza: The Story of a Genocide', co-editors Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro have gathered around twenty writers, poets, journalists, activists, and illustrators to explore the genocide's immeasurable toll at both individual and collective levels 👇
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Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro’s anthology of Gaza resistance
Book Club: Sonia Faleiro speaks to us about ’Gaza: The Story of a Genocide,’ a vital anthology blending testimony and art to document Gaza’s ongoing devastation
https://www.newarab.com/features/fatima-bhutto-and-sonia-faleiros-anthology-gaza-resistance
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Out today! A bold new graphic biography of the life of Jane Austen, from the author of Red Rosa and Threads "A thing of beauty." - Mary Talbot, author of The Dotters of Her Father's Eyes
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Patchwork
In her later years, Jane Austen made a patchwork quilt. She folded thousands of tiny scraps of fabric over diamond-shaped slips of paper and painstakingly stitched them together. Kate Evans employs t...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3236-patchwork
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We have four new titles out this week: a bold reimagining of the life of Jane Austen, an award-winning historian on Britain's most contentious symbol: the high-rise block, a screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and spotlighting liberal civilization in crisis
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This Week's New Titles
New titles available this week: Patchwork by Kate Evans [book-strip index="1"] Buy a copy of Patchwork and get 30% off any of the selected titles below. Discount will be applied in cart. Books must be...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/this-weeks-new-titles
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Cleveland Review of Books
12 days ago
"Kojève’s reflections on the conditions of politically meaningful action and philosophy speak to our current zeitgeist where history seems neither dead nor alive." Alexander Aerts on Kojéve's "Kant"
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Less Chatter, More Action: on Alexandre Kojève’s "Kant" - Cleveland Review of Books
One has to reckon with a postmodern condition of meaninglessness and feeling of being too late to the party.
https://clereviewofbooks.com/less-chatter-more-action-on-alexandre-kojeves-kant/
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Evan
14 days ago
New book review published at
@jich.bsky.social
@joeredmayne.bsky.social
reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century'
@versobooks.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2025.2575059
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Carolina Alves
13 days ago
Weekend read? In honour of D Harvey’s birthday, I revisit Marx, Capital & the Madness of Economic Reason. I challenge the ‘polycrisis’ narrative, focus on capital & use a physics analogy to explain value. Happy birthday, David Harvey! 🎉🎂
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Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'
There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/polycrisis-or-the-madness-of-economic-reason
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Andy Adams
11 days ago
Oh, this looks good. Must read!
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Land and Climate Review
11 days ago
"21st century society appears constitutionally incapable of solving any problem. All it can do is to expunge symptoms.” Click to read an excerpt from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm’s new book, “The Long Heat,” published by @versobooks.bsky.social
www.landclimate.org/...
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"The ecological crisis does not push communism further away; instead, it calls for its urgent return."
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Cosmos, Production, and Anarchy
[book-strip index="1"] In our era of climate change and global environmental catastrophes, is communism relevant anymore? At first glance, there are at least three reasons to doubt it. The first reas...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/cosmos-production-and-anarchy
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Cédric Durand
17 days ago
Thanks
@kmunro-econ.bsky.social
for setting up this event at the New School. Very much looking forward.
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Mike McCarthy
17 days ago
Very excited about this event with
@cedricdurand.bsky.social
at the New School in New York City. We have distinct arguments about this tortured post-Late Capitalism we are living through, I’m genuinely curious to see where the conversation goes.
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"Communism must become ecological. And yet this argument is incomplete if it does not include its corollary: political ecology can become truly revolutionary only by becoming communist"
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Cosmos, Production, and Anarchy
[book-strip index="1"] In our era of climate change and global environmental catastrophes, is communism relevant anymore? At first glance, there are at least three reasons to doubt it. The first reas...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/cosmos-production-and-anarchy
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We have three books out this week - Paul Guillibert on how communism can inform the ecological revolution, Cédric Durand on the age of techno-feudalism, and Sophia Giovannitti on the worlds of sex and art.
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This Week's New Titles
New titles available this week: Anthropocene Communism by Paul Guillibert [book-strip index="1"] Buy a copy of Anthropocene Communism and get 30% off any of the selected titles below. Discount will be...
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Ben Bowsher
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Out today - Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster by Paul Guillibert
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Anthropocene Communism
In Anthropocene Communism, the philosopher and activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With the aid of this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological cr...
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3228-anthropocene-communism
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Kirstin Munro
17 days ago
attn NYC! We have a great event coming up at The New School on Nov. 4 at 4pm,
@itsmccarthy.bsky.social
&
@cedricdurand.bsky.social
in conversation about their new books from
@versobooks.bsky.social
& the future of capitalism. Open to to the public w registration:
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Javier
17 days ago
When you buy an ebook from
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they add your name to the epub file you download, so I’m about to start reading “Enshittification for Javier Arce”.
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
17 days ago
If you happen to be in London at the start of next month this would be worth putting in your diary....
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Sally Dawson
17 days ago
"This wonderful book is an essential reminder of the vitally important role popular protest has played in securing our parliamentary democracy" 📚
@johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social
reviews
@johnwrees.bsky.social
'The Fiery Spirits' |
@versobooks.bsky.social
bit.ly/470LbGe
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'Issue this book to every new MP': John McDonnell reviews 'The Fiery Spirits'
John Rees has written a page-turning and powerful reminder of how Parliament and the people once wrested control from an arrogant executive
https://bit.ly/470LbGe
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George Monbiot
29 days ago
This new book by
@cartoonkate.bsky.social
is a breath-takingly beautiful thing: I'd go so far as to say a work of genius. It's my privilege to be interviewing her about it at the East Gate Bookshop, Totnes on 23rd October. Please join us if you can:
www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/tick...
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Ticket: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen
Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing c...
https://www.totnespulse.co.uk/product/ticket-patchwork/
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"For David, the principal focus of Marx’s Grundrisse is capital, defined as self-expanding value in motion." Nancy Fraser described the importance and impact of A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse by
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Capital and/or Capitalist Society? A Tale of Two Totalities
David Harvey has inspired me for many years. In 1970 he guided my first reading of Capital Volume 1 in a New Left study group. We’ve since had many discussions, at conferences, symposia and book launc...
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/capital-and-or-capitalist-society-a-tale-of-two-totalities?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_blog&utm_content=harvey_90
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Andreas Malm will be speaking to Steven Donziger and Adrienne Buller, mapping the frontlines of the struggle for a liveable planet and calling for the climate revolution that is long overdue. Join us at the Barbican Centre (London), Sunday 2nd Nov
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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Andreas Malm in Conversation with Steven Donziger and Adrienne Buller | Barbican
Best-selling author and activist Andreas Malm leads a vital discussion on the climate crisis, exploring how we can act and come together with hope for change.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/andreas-malm-in-conversation
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What are you reading this weekend?
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Rosa Luxemburg NYC
21 days ago
How would a socialist govern NYC? This week,
@ceaweaver.bsky.social
,
@chiosse.bsky.social
, and J.W. Mason joined us,
@versobooks.bsky.social
, and
@dissentmag.bsky.social
to discuss the challenges Zohran Mamdani would face, from the Rent Guidelines Board to the City Council Speaker race and beyond.
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