Dean Spade, Autumn Brown, and R. Jessica Rosenberg joined Verso on May 11th to celebrate the new edition of Mutual Aid, discuss how aid efforts have changed between 2019 and 2026, the repression of Stop Cop City activists, and transitioning between acute and ongoing crises.
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Dean Spade has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation, anti-militarism, and police and prison abolition for the past 25 years. He is the author of Normal Life, Mutual Aid, and Love in a Fucked Up World.
Autumn Brown is a mother, movement leader, and musician, whose organizing work is rooted in Black feminist and fugitive freedom movements. For over 20 years she has organized for healing justice, developed movement strategy, and trained organizers in consensus process, facilitation, and racial justice. Autumn is a 2020 Auburn Seminary Lives of Commitment Honoree and recipient of the 2025 Margaret Brent Award. She lives on Dakota land in Minneapolis, MN, where she co-hosts the podcast How to Survive the End of the World. Her forthcoming book, Temper: Practicing Freedom in an Unfree World (St. Martin’s Essentials, 2026), offers wisdom and teaching on cultivating inner freedom and way finding toward liberation, even when the way is uncertain.
Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg is a teacher, writer and organizer on Dakota land in South Minneapolis. She became a rabbi in order to learn diverse and nuanced histories, tell stories, and create spaces, ritual, and organizing that helps transform our relationships to past, present and future. She is co-author, alongside Rabbi Ariana Katz, of For Times Such As These: A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year. She is a founding collective member of Signal Fire Radical Jewish Artist Cooperative, a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council, a ritual leader and organizing collective member of World to Come - Twin Cities.
As part of our HM series recorded in October, 2025, writer Kevin B. Anderson sat down with Benjamin Crais to discuss his book The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads – now available from Verso Books.
This interview was recorded at the Verso office in London during the Historical Materialism Conference, 2025.
The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism.
In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome. These texts, some of them only now being published, provide evidence for a change of perspective, away from Eurocentric worldviews or unilinear theories of development. As Anderson shows, the late Marx elaborated a truly global, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities.
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads is available now from Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3257-the-late-marx-s-revolutionary-roads?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=kba_hm
The Future in Our Past tells the story of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary. In the book, Callum Cant and Matthew Lee take us on a journey through a Britain living on its nerves, from the London docklands to the South Wales coalfields and the railways and warehouses of middle England.
100 years later, they visited the communities where the struggle burned brightest, uncovering the lessons the General Strike holds for labour movements today.
The Future in our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026 by Callum Cant and Matthew Lee is out now: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3483-the-future-in-our-past?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=may_day_26
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As part of our HM series recorded in October, 2025, writer Anton Jäger sat down with Oliver Eagleton to discuss his new book Hyperpolitics – now available from Verso Books.
Interview was recorded at the Verso office in London during the Historical Materialism Conference, 2025.
What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? Hyperpolitics revisits the illusions of the “end of history” and dissects the strange energies that replaced them: viral outrage, endless culture wars, and the digital rush of causes that flare and vanish overnight. Jäger shows how the promises of post–Cold War liberalism gave way to a restless, unsteady public sphere where private passions overflow into politics but rarely build enduring power. For anyone trying to grasp why our age feels so charged yet so inconsequential, this book offers a vital map through the new contradictions of our hyperpolitical moment.
Hyperpolitics is available now from Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3460-hyperpolitics?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=hyperpolitics_hm
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Defining Hyperpolitics
07:36 Understanding Hyperpolitics in relation to the rise and fall of Left Populism
13:59 How the Right is winning in the hyperpolitical era
22:49 On the Right's ability to achieve its institutional aims
29:10 The lower ambitions of the populist Right
34:51 On European deindustrialization
38:23 The challenges in reviving a Left politics
46:42 Could mass politicization produce institutional consequences that have yet to be seen?
Leopoldina Fortunati, author of The Arcana of Reproduction, visited the Verso office in London to discuss the new English edition of her classic work of Feminist analysis and the truly revolutionary struggles that motivated her work.
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Author Leopoldina Fortunati sat down with Sara R. Farris to discuss the new English edition of her classic The Arcana of Reproduction – now available from Verso Books.
Interview was recorded at the Verso office in London during the Historical Materialism Conference, 2025.
The Arcana of Reproduction is a foundational text and essential contribution to today’s discussions of social reproduction and the history of Italian feminism. Fortunati’s work provides some of the earliest theorizations of ‘immaterial,’ ‘affective,’ and ‘caring’ labor, and of the role of technology in reproduction, articulated decades before their popular reception in English academic literature. Reading this work some 50 years after its original publication gives us the tools to analyze the contemporary state of capitalist development and of women’s lives today. The text remains prefigurative and essential in our era of digital labor.
The Arcana of Reproduction is available now from Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2718-the-arcana-of-reproduction?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=arcana_hm
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Writing The Arcana of Reproduction and the Influence of Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
20:04 Initial reception of The Arcana of Reproduction
22:42 Housework and the Feminist Movement
25:58 The Arcana of Reproduction today
33:34 On the evolution of social reproduction
44:24 The Arcana of Reproduction for today's feminists
50:39 About the book's cover
On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime change, the Iranian regime has shown that it will not go down easily. In the face of US imperial aggression, what is the future for Iran?
Verso will be joined by Afshin Matin-Asgari, Golnar Nikpour, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, and Ervand Abrahamian for an urgent discussion.
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