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Archive of Mistaken Identity

    Verso Books
    24 August 2021
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    Decolonize your bookshelf!

    Challenge your imposed reading.

    Verso Books
    24 August 2021
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    Race and Ethnicity: Verso Student Reading

    Featuring Priya Gopal, Walter Rodney, Stella Dadzie and more.

    Verso Books
    07 May 2021
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    May Day Sale!

    40% off our May Day reading! Includes new reading from Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, McKenzie Wark, and Andreas Malm.

    Verso Books
    15 December 2020
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    20 Books for Budding Activists

    Our top 20 books on activism and anti-capitalist resistance, the perfect introduction to left politics.

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    29 July 2020
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    The Emancipation of All: Marxism in the Age of Identity Politics

    Asad Haider and Rafael Khachaturian discuss emancipation and marxism, from the Sanders campaign to a new autonomous movement against state racism and repression. 

    Verso Books
    23 July 2020
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    Activism and Resistance

    Key titles on activism and global resistance, from movements for Black liberation and climate justice to labor organizing and anti-colonial struggles.

    Asad Haider
    15 July 2020
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    The Use of Free Speech in Society

    The debates that arise from discussions of “cancel culture” recall the classical arguments in political thought over freedom of expression, despite the fact that the substance of these arguments is almost never examined. We should look at them more closely, however, because they raise fundamental questions about how we should act politically and what constitutes a good society.

    Verso Books
    02 June 2020
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    Abolition and Black Struggle

    The police have always been used as a tool for the social control of minority populations and to protect the power and property of the elite. A reading list that puts the call for the abolishment of the police in historical context.

    Verso Books
    19 May 2020
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    Decolonization and anti-racism

    Books that challenge the notion of empire and offer a history of anti-colonial, anti-racist struggle.

    Verso Books
    11 May 2020
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    Black Radicalism: A Verso Reading List

    A reading list inspired by Black radicalism, featuring Julius Scott's The Common Wind as well as Angela Davis, Manning Marable, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

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