Books published by Verso Books

An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today

From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism today.

A shocking expose of genocide denial.

Originally published under title Operai e capitale by Einaudi in 1966.

Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrectionBaltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an ';age of riots' as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class. From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. Historical events such as the global economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. As social unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their struggles toward a revolutionary horizon.

SEVENTY YEARS AFTER THE CHINESE REVOLUTION OF 1949, WHAT REMAINS OF MAO'S COMMUNIST LEGACY?

The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit by Orwell Prize winning journalist