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During his lifetime, the Brazilian footballer Pele came to stand as an international symbol of Brazil: a nation of sport and glamour. Yet at his death at the end of December, coming just days before the inauguration of the third presidency of Lula, and a little over a week before thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the parliament building in Brasília, Brazil stands as a nation deeply divided, Oliver Basciano writes.

The Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg discusses the historical method of microhistory, of which he is an eminent representative, and some themes and concepts of his work.

A new documentary, To the End, credits the political activists behind the Green New Deal movement for Biden’s environmental policies. Yet, as Matt Huber writes, the film fails to acknowledge that the inability of green activists to build a mass base was also the cause of the Inflation Reduction Act's limitations.

The current conjuncture demands rigorous analysis if we are to understand the political moment and develop a strategy to respond to it. Alain Badiou undertakes this task, offering thirteen theses on global politics today and suggesting an organizing strategy for the Left given those conditions.

Tariq Ali on Tom Nairn (1932–2023)

Tom Nairn, who died on Saturday morning, 21st January 2023, made his name with a series of coruscating essays on the British state published in New Left Review and collected in the 1977 book The Break-Up of Britain.  Here, we republish Tom Nairn's classic account of the nature, and the twilight, of the British state.

Verso is extremely sad to announce the death of Tom Nairn, the great anatomist of the break-up of Britain and the emergence of modern nationalism, on Saturday morning, 21st January 2023. 

Britain is a country shaped by its landscape. But what are the politics of the British countryside? Richard Smyth tracks the chequered political history of nature writing, from Henry Williamson to Paul Kingsnorth.