Is this really the end? Join us tomorrow @3pm (EST) for a virtual discussion of Joel Wainwright’s The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis.
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@sarayasin.bsky.socialReposted by @versobooks.bsky.socialIn this introduction, Khalidi draws a line from Israel’s assassinations of cultural figures in the 1970s - Kanafani himself among them - to its targeting of journalists, writers and artists in Gaza today www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ghassan-ka...
@democracyatwork.bsky.socialReposted by @versobooks.bsky.socialBook Talk next week with Jasper Bernes on his recent book The Future of #Revolution from @versobooks.bsky.social RSVP here: marxedproject.org/event/future...
@felicitycallard.bsky.socialReposted by @versobooks.bsky.socialBought the just published English translation (with @versobooks.bsky.social) of Kanafani’s long essay in the @ibraaz.bsky.social bookshop after listening collectively to A Lifework of Mourning
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@versobooks.bsky.social"When the political imagination is again struggling to find adequate forms, this volume restores 1977 in Italy to its rightful place...an invitation to think again, collectively, about what it might mean to live—and struggle—dangerously today." —Leopoldina Fortunati Available for pre-order now!
@versobooks.bsky.socialBetween Mamdani and Prairieland: A.C. Corey on municipal socialism and domestic repression.
@proteanmag.comReposted by @versobooks.bsky.socialToday we're honored to publish two short excerpts from the upcoming translation of Palestinian revolutionary and writer Ghassan Kanafani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948–1968, alongside a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
@doughenwood.bsky.socialReposted by @versobooks.bsky.socialfresh audio product:
• Sam Stein, author of A Right to Housing?, investigates that proposition skeptically
• Natasha Lennard, author of Un/Certainty, talks about how doubt can be a mask for certainty
@versobooks.bsky.socialIs this really the end? Join us on October 12th @3pm (EST) for a virtual discussion of Joel Wainwright’s new book on Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis.
@versobooks.bsky.social"An exquisite reading of our historical situation." --Chicago Tribune Available for pre-order now, featuring a new introduction on "American Brainrot".
@versobooks.bsky.social"As the post-2008 Left inches closer to a long-dreamed-of accession to state power, the shadow of state repression, even state terror, looms. Yet these parallel developments feel somehow distant from one another, rarely mentioned in the same conversations. How can we explain the gap?"
@amit-singh.bsky.socialReposted by @versobooks.bsky.socialPubs for the People event in Manchester
📆 2nd of November
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📍TrackBrewing Co - Brewery & Taproom
We'll be chatting with Lewis Bassett, author of The Full English, about nationalism, food, pubs and more.
@versobooks.bsky.socialA revelatory new history of the FBI that explores the relationship between domestic political surveillance and the emergence of the US national security state. (Forthcoming by @chipgibbons.bsky.social) Available for pre-order now!
@versobooks.bsky.socialCentral to Israel's effort in justifying its genocide is the suggestion that the events of October 7, 2023, interrupted peace in the region and took place without provocation. History tells a different story. 🇵🇸
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@versobooks.bsky.socialHistory did not begin on October 7th 🇵🇸
Central to Israel's effort in justifying its genocide is the suggestion that the events of October 7, 2023, interrupted peace in the region and took place without provocation. History tells a different story.
@doughenwood.bsky.socialReposted by @versobooks.bsky.socialGood description! Guest on Thursday’s Behind the News
@sharrow.eurosky.socialReposted by @versobooks.bsky.socialA free book to educate yourself more on the recent history of Palestine from @versobooks.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social"Dorling digs deep to understand crises – past, present and future. Read this if you need realism, cheer and hope." --Ann Pettifor Available for pre-order now!
