This week on The Verso Podcast we’re going to be thinking about the relationship between feminism and the carceral system. For a growing number of people the prospect of an abolitionist future - in which police and prisons are obsolete, and are not seen as the answer to all social ills - is an obviously desirable one. But to others, the notion of an abolitio ... Show More
Oct 2025
Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C (trailer)
Today we're posting a trailer for OVERSHOOT, an exciting new series forthcoming from our friends over at Planet B Productions. OVERSHOOT is hosted by Laurie Laybourn, author of Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown, published by Verso Books. In 2015, ... Show More
4m 5s
Nov 2024
AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli
This week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Matteo Pasquinelli. Of course, we’re still working hard to bring you more roundtable discussions with our wonderful Verso authors in our upcoming fourth series of The Verso Pod ... Show More
58m 29s
May 2021
Proletarian Feminism, Women's Liberation, and the Sex Trade
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ComradeBrigid">Brigid Ó Coileáin</a> and <a href= "https://twitter.com/endclasssociety">Esperanza Fonseca</a> join Breht to discuss proletarian and Marxist feminism, the history and power dynamics of the sex trade, the rhetoric and ideology of libe ... Show More
1h 21m
Apr 2023
Proletarian Feminism and its Discontents
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/yungz0rn">Tai Lee</a> joins Breht to discuss the recent split from AF3IRM, radical feminism, critique as a form of solidarity, the necessity of struggle within organizations, sexual harrassment and abuse in the labor movement, liberal opportunism, ... Show More
1 h
Aug 2017
Marxist Feminism: The Struggle Against Capitalist Patriarchal Hegemony
Raechel Anne Jolie is an educator, an activist, a yogi, a Media Studies PhD, a vegan, a podcaster, and a writer. Her writing has been featured in Bitch Magazine, The Daily Dot, The Huffington Post, (and more), and she's been interviewed as an expert in her field for Rolling Stone ... Show More
1h 1m
Mar 2022
Toward a Revolutionary Feminism: a Continuum of Women's Work
Tai Lee joins the show to discuss feminist theory, marxist v. liberal feminism, patriarchal realism, gender abolition, historical and dialectical materialism, why the "gender critical" movement is fundamentally anti-Marxist, key feminist thinkers, and much more! Follow Tai on Twi ... Show More
1h 29m
Jun 2022
Fixing The System, Not the Women with Laura Bates
<p>Writer, activist, and founder of The Everyday Sexism Project Laura Bates joins Jameela this week to discuss what has changed since she started Everyday Sexism 10 years ago, the ways that all the authorities/systems are failing women, how rape is practically decriminalized in t ... Show More
1h 2m