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A Rosa Luxemburg Bookshelf Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement and the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the fou...

Happy birthday to the great revolutionary and theorist, Rosa Luxemburg, born on this day in 1871.

Verso Feminist Classics | 30% off for International Women's Day Rediscover pioneering works of feminism from leading writers including Kathi Weeks, Vron Ware, and Michele Wallace. The Feminist Classics series brings together foundational texts in the critical and…

The Feminist Classics series brings together foundational texts in the critical and left feminist traditions, including works of politics, history, and critical thought.

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Celebrated Works of Fiction by Vigdis Hjorth Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. In 2019, her novel Will and Testament was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and in 202...

“Hjorth writes with the feminist bluntness of Annie Ernaux, the psychic precision of Javier Marías and the lyrical repetitions of Jon Fosse.” - S.C. Cornell, The New York Times

For over a century International Women's Day has been a site of workers’ strikes and collective action.

We're celebrating by offering 30% off a selection of key texts on radical feminist theory and history.

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Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...

and here's the book, thanks as always to @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/303...

Zum 8. März: Für ein neues «wir» Warum hilft die Angst der Frauen dem Patriarchat? Warum war #MeToo ein guter Anfang? Warum lässt sich die Manosphere nicht mit moderaten Positionen bekämpfen? Vier Einordnungen.

grateful to the Swiss weekly WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung for reading *Immediacy* and "In Defense of Feminist Abstraction" and going somewhere good with big ideas!

"For a New "We""

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Women, Resistance and Revolution In Women, Resistance and Revolution, Sheila Rowbotham traces four centuries of feminist struggle and revolutionary politics. She reveals how women have confronted the dual challenges of an unjust stat...

Out now - Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World by Sheila Rowbotham

"Groundbreaking … One of feminism’s great chroniclers."
- Melissa Benn, Guardian

Women, Resistance and Revolution In Women, Resistance and Revolution, Sheila Rowbotham traces four centuries of feminist struggle and revolutionary politics. She reveals how women have confronted the dual challenges of an unjust stat...

Out now - Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World by Sheila Rowbotham

"Groundbreaking … One of feminism’s great chroniclers."
- Melissa Benn, Guardian

Hyperpolitics What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how pub­...

"A text to return to again and again. Hyperpolitics is wide-ranging but never stretched, always plausible. Jäger is a rare meeting of an exciting thinker and a graceful writer."

- @nesrinemalik.bsky.social, @theguardian.com

Hyperpolitics by Anton Jäger is out now

Lisa Siraganian presents "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots" Should nonhumans have rights in law and politics?

Join @lsiraganian.bsky.social at @redemmas.org on Tuesday, March 24th 2026 for a discussion of The Problem of Personhood!

AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM | Reading List The U.S. and Israel continued their deadly imperial spiral this last weekend with a joint operation in Iran that resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties and the assassination of Iran's supreme lea...

We must stand against U.S. imperialism.

For a deeper analysis of imperialism, war, extractivism, and a left internationalism that could organize against these forces, consider the titles on this list.

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A mesmerizing novel by Vigdis Hjorth…Every moment conveys a sense of firstness…Violence lurks in this searing retrospective. I read Repetition in a single night.

—Cary Holladay reviews Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth, trans. Charlotte Barslund @versobooks.bsky.social hudsonreview.com/2026/02/witc...

Repetition As winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her past. The seismic events following her sixteenth birthday return with haunting vividnes...

One of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being young

Out now - Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth

In The Story of Capital, the world's foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism. Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of… THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey | What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

"The American empire that has sheltered capital for so long is starting to crack."

The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist @davidharvey.org takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx's masterwork in his new book, The Story of Capital.

Join Judith Butler on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at Riverside Church (Assembly Hall) for a seminar of reading Hegel!

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Axis of Empire Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari’s accessible history of relations between the United States and Iran. The missionaries and educators who descended on Iran in t...

Afshin Matin-Asgari, Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–US Relations – @versobooks.bsky.social , January 2026
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The cover of Lisa Siraganian's _The Problem of Personhood: Giving Civil Rights to Trees, Corporationd and Robots_. The cover has the title in a chunky blocky Swissy sans-serif and the picture is a green background, with a white tree, and an shadow of a human head in wavy black lines superimposed looking oddly like a stamp cancellation

Currently reading. Very timely. Thank you @versobooks.bsky.social and @lsiraganian.bsky.social. The law is massively slow to change; perhaps letting go of personhood can form the center of a longterm goal like getting rid of sexism in the law has been and continues to be.

The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow by Timothy Mitchell Political theorist Mitchell (Carbon Democracy) offers a paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern econom...

.@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Timothy Mitchell's Alibi of Capital a "paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern economy."

Out next Tuesday, March 10th.

AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM | Reading List The U.S. and Israel continued their deadly imperial spiral this last weekend with a joint operation in Iran that resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties and the assassination of Iran's supreme lea...

We must stand against U.S. imperialism.

For a deeper analysis of imperialism, war, extractivism, and a left internationalism that could organize against these forces, consider the titles on this list.

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AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM | Reading List The U.S. and Israel continued their deadly imperial spiral this last weekend with a joint operation in Iran that resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties and the assassination of Iran's supreme lea...

We must stand against U.S. imperialism.

For a deeper analysis of imperialism, war, extractivism, and a left internationalism that could organize against these forces, consider the titles on this list.

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...

sending out copies of COUNTERREVOLUTION IN EGYPT: Sisi’s New Republic by Hossam el-Hamalawy (out May 5th, from @versobooks.bsky.social) this week! let me know if you’d like a review copy

Book entitled Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations by Afshin Marin-Asgari

This seems appropriate reading for this weekend. Available from @versobooks.bsky.social

The Collaborators Shulamite by Anselm Kiefer, 1983, via SFMOMA, San Francisco On 14 February this year, a street fight broke out in Lyon between fascist and anti-fascist militants (Lyon has long been a bastion of…

"An entire class, a noxious minority radicalised in the fanatical defence of its privileges, and now ready to do anything, is literally installing the far right in power."

In other words, we let fake things dictate how their impact on real things and put that in the hands of the state and capital!

Can't wait for this book

Two Problems with Personhood: Expanding the Circle and Impoverishing t Laurie Anderson, Habeas Corpus (2015), Park Avenue Armoury (New York, NY). Photo by James Ewing. Until the 1990s, the term “personhood”—the quality or condition of being an individual person—appeared…

"Anglo-American legal systems developed corporate personhood to project large business entities on the model of rationally contracting individuals."

In The Story of Capital, the world's foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism. Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of… THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey | What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

The Story of Capital by @davidharvey.org is essential reading for all those trying to grasp the nature of contemporary capitalism.

I plainly got way too busy because I missed that @davidharvey.org -- whose regularly updated YouTube lecture series on reading Marx was essential to both me and hundreds of thousands of others finally grasping the material -- has a new book out. So looking forward to diving in.

In the Islam Quintet, Tariq Ali tells the story of the clashes between European Christendom and Islamic civilisation.

Out now in beautiful new editions!

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Yes, Mélenchon Really Will Win the Presidential Elections Next Year Originally published on Hors Series  This article was written before a recent parliamentary commission of inquiry in which Jean-Luc Mélenchon was quizzed on alleged ‘Islamist entryism’. It was a…

For several decades, France has been grappling with a paradox: the country votes mainly for the Right, but its population is increasingly left-wing in its thinking.

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