Michal Schatz
miyyka.bsky.social
Michal Schatz
@miyyka.bsky.social
Editor at Verso Books | michal@verso.co.uk
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Gift subscriptions to NLR come with full access to the archive from 1960 to the present—1000s of articles, including classics from Adorno, Althusser, Brenner, Butler, Harvey, Jameson, Williams; Benedict Anderson, Mike Davis, Nancy Fraser, Ellen Meiksins Wood and many more.

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December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure.

www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Live updates: Two deceased in active shooter incident at Brown University
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
www.browndailyherald.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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New podcast episode on the global expansion of state capitalism, the weakness of capital, the end of neoliberalism, techno-fascism,and progressive politics, with @bungacast.bsky.social, the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History.
bungacast.com/2025/10/13/5...
@campolis.bsky.social
/515/ State Capitalism Is Now ft. Ilias Alami
On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State Capitalism. Why is state capitalism not ju…
bungacast.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Out today - Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

This is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. These works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in­flicted on the Palestinian people.
Gaza
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction i...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope
Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Saturday, 18 October!

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October 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Join Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, Rebecca Karl, and Tariq Ali for an urgent discussion on China's evolving role on the world stage on Saturday, 4 October, at 6.30pm. Tickets are free with registration!
Verso Books: A Global View on China
Please join us for a discussion on the global future of China, with Wang Hui, Pun Ngai, and Rebecca Karl, chaired by Tariq Ali.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This footage of Trump and Federal Reserve chairman Powell at the Federal Reserve construction site is absolutely amazing. What a time to be alive.
July 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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🚨Cover reveal alert!🚨 “Gaza: The Story of a Genocide,” edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro, is coming from Verso Books on October 7, 2025. Read more about the book, and how the cover, designed by Chantal Jahchan, came to be in the link below.
July 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The next Verso Palestine Pamphlet from Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah is here 🇵🇸
July 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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look at what was just delivered

it’s the

@pashukanist.bsky.social & co. masterpiece that everyone should read

& it looks even more 🔥🔥🔥 than online & IT HAS THAT FRESH BOOK SMELL (in case you needed another reason to ordered it right this moment)
July 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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You should pre-order this. Trust me. Or better yet, don't take my word for it, read Rob's thread where he talks about some of the content and that will convince you.
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
July 12, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.
Riot. Strike. Riot
Baltimore. 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...
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June 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Our NEA grant was canceled.

Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.
May 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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A year ago, the Columbia Palestine encampment sparked a movement that spread across the globe. As the Trump admin wages a fresh war against students, Francesco Anselmetti argues that campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Spring Again
There’s hardly been a moment to breathe — let alone sit, take stock, commemorate. If April 17th marked one year since the largest anti-war protests in a generation, the picture now looks almost imposs...
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April 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Now up on the Verso Blog: an excellent essay analyzing the political conditions on university campuses and the strategic avenues available to students (and faculty) committed to the struggle for a free Palestine
A year ago, the Columbia Palestine encampment sparked a movement that spread across the globe. As the Trump admin wages a fresh war against students, Francesco Anselmetti argues that campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Spring Again
There’s hardly been a moment to breathe — let alone sit, take stock, commemorate. If April 17th marked one year since the largest anti-war protests in a generation, the picture now looks almost imposs...
www.versobooks.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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“How do we protect each other? Who will be targeted next? Can anyone consider themselves truly safe?”

Questions very relevant to Uk unis
A year ago, the Columbia Palestine encampment sparked a movement that spread across the globe. As the Trump admin wages a fresh war against students, Francesco Anselmetti argues that campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Spring Again
There’s hardly been a moment to breathe — let alone sit, take stock, commemorate. If April 17th marked one year since the largest anti-war protests in a generation, the picture now looks almost imposs...
www.versobooks.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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It's @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social on his fascinating depressing book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade, history of labor leadership's Cold War imperialist machinations abroad—and at home. Guest host @micahuetricht.bsky.social thedigradio.com/podcast/blue...
Blue Collar Empire w/ Jeff Schuhrke
Jeff Schuhrke on his book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. During the Cold War, organized labor’s top leadership acted as an agent of the US national se...
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April 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Tearful farewell of father and son as family members board ship in A Coruña harbour bound for Buenas Aires in Nov 1957. Iconic shot by Manuel Ferrol encapsulating the trauma of Galician emigration forced by economic hardship +by extension similar worldwide. Don't know colouriser.
March 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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"In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all."

inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner
A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
inthesetimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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No one should *ever* be targeted for speaking out in solidarity with Palestine, including my brilliant colleague @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social. These are terrifying times, and we must all stand together against repression.

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Statement on Recent Events
The online targeting and harassment of the LPE Project’s Deputy Director, Helyeh Doutaghi, is part of a broader environment of speech repression, particularly of anti-war and pro-Palestinian views.
lpeproject.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Freedom for Capital Not People charts the theoretical developments responsible for reshaping today's world economy, unleashing capital against democracy.

Finally coming out in English, in June with @versobooks.bsky.social. Thanks @quinnslobodian.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Detroit nurses win the biggest NLRB election of the century so far

www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
Corewell Health nurses in Southeast Michigan vote in favor of unionizing
Among 9,775 eligible voters, 4,958 voted in favor of unionizing. There were 2,957 votes against. The union will represent nurses at nine locations.
www.detroitnews.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:28 PM