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Archive of Algiers, Third World Capital

    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
    23 August 2021
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    Why the Left Studies History: Verso Student Reading

    Our selected History reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Gabriel Bristow
    16 August 2021
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    Summer of Soul, Summer of Internationalism

    1969 may be remembered as the year of Woodstock and the hippies, but as the documentary Summer of Soul shows, it was also the year of cultural and social tumult that surged up from the deepest currents of the black Atlantic.

    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.

    Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
    07 July 2020
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    Letter to Sylvia Wynter

    In an open letter to theorist Sylvia Wynter on Wynter's text "1492: A New World View," Ariella Aïsha Azoulay  retrieves memories of her Jewish family's Arabness: "I refuse to become a memory-less Jew, whose life was mutated and reformatted to begin only with the creation of the nation-state."

    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
    07 December 2019
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    Bestselling books by women

    Our bestselling books on feminism, gender, race, and political theory by Verso's top women authors. 

    Verso Books
    28 November 2019
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    Black Radical Thought: A Verso Bookshelf

    Fundamental reading on race, ethnicity and anti-colonialism.

    Yani Aïdali
    14 October 2019
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    Solidarity with Algeria’s imprisoned students!

    Protests in Algeria have been building since the start of the year. The protests, that have already forced former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down after 20 years, have lately been facing increasingly hostile repression from police and security services. In this interview with imprisoned student leader Yani Aïdali, he discusses the nature of the student movement, and the possibility of its generating a national-level co-ordination.

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