Five years ago, we published The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. It was a small volume that provided a large overview of what we described as the ‘structural carelessness’ of our world. More importantly, it also offered a vision of an alternative…

Join Verso at our office to phonebank for Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign. No experience is required and we will start with a brief training. You'll learn how to have positive conversations about freezing the rent, free and fast buses, universal childcare…

Decolonization was one of the major historical processes that shaped the 20th century and its unfinished projects continue to shape our present. On the occasion of the launch of Verso's Southern Questions, series editor Adom Getachew is joined by Adéwálé…

The works of Frédéric Gros examine everything from ethical resistance, to biosecurity, to why we walk.  His latest work is an original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age — the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition for new…

Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards performs an autopsy on neoliberalism’s corpse while its heart still beats - peeling back the skin of free market ideology to expose the necrotic tissue of eugenics beneath. This isn’t merely intellectual history; it’s a…

Join Juliana Gleeson for the discussions of Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation this Pride month in London, Manchester, Sheffield, and Birmingham.

Enjoy 30% off select Verso titles to mark the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the church of Saint-Nizier by French sex workers.

Verso's Pride reading gives a roadmap for building anticapitalist queer liberation over rainbow capitalism! Including books on black trans sex workers’ experiences, the history of homosexuality, trans misogyny around the world, and more.

Writer Tariq Ali visits our offices in New York City and makes his way through the Verso Archive, sharing memories of publishing with Verso, working with Mike Davis, and maintaining integrity in challenging times. Books mentioned in the video: Books mentioned…

Our comrade and friend Joshua Clover (1962-2025) passed away in late April after a brief and mysterious illness. We write as his comrades in the Marxist Institute for Research (MIR) to celebrate his life as a communist, professor, teacher, mentor, writer…

Join us at one (or more!) of these exciting book launch events in June! Please follow the links to book direct with the hosts. -- Friday, June 6th @ 7pm; Artists Space More information here! Saturday, June 8th @4pm; Artbook@MoMA PS1 w/ Melissa Rachleff Burtt…

In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by…

In Riot. Strike. Riot, Joshua Clover describes the modern form of upheaval as riot prime –where the economy is out of reach but the state is near, with its progressively militarized police forces deputized against us. "Riot Prime cannot help but heave itself…

The Mont Pèlerin Society, founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von Hayek, transformed the world economy. As Matthias Schmelzer argues in Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order, at the turn…

In October 1994, Christopher Hill reviewed my small Verso book E. P. Thompson: Objections & Oppositions in the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES). Hill’s short evaluation went largely unnoticed. Even I remembered the review (and correspondence around…

Florencia Vallejos (@florvva), Carpeta Fotos, 2020, 5”20. Image courtesy of the artist. ‘We’re drowning in a sea of data.’ These words, written on the NSA’s website in the early 2010s and unearthed by Hito Steyerl in her 2017 essay of the same name, now read…

The West's imperial machine has pushed the world to the brink of war. The books below were selected to provide an array of perspectives on global conflict – from the analytical to the historical and the philosophical. War is catastrophe. It is not an option.…

Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, days or nights “when the partisans of riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make their first retreat...when the riot becomes fully itself, slides loose from the grim continuity of daily …

[book-strip index="1"] To write a social history of analytic philosophy, the dominant mode of academic philosophy in the English-speaking world and beyond, is to subject it to a kind of treatment to which it is constitutionally averse. Analytic philosophy…

The targeting of immigrant communities has reached extraordinary new levels of shamelessness, drawing activists to the streets in protest and sparking fiery confrontations against the state's militarized police forces. The books below were selected to provide…