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“It is the responsibility of all of us to renew our resistance to all forms of bigotry and oppression,” writes Rebecca Vilkomerson.

This excerpt from the highly acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad” describes how the protagonist's grandmother was enslaved and brought to a Georgia plantation.

In this excerpt from “Speaking OUT,” Tiffany reflects on her personal journey in the years since her photograph was taken in 2006.

In this excerpt from “Splinterlands,” written in the form of a fictitious journal from the year 2050, John Feffer offers a grim speculative account of how the world unraveled.

The collapse of Rana Plaza not only shone a light on the extreme exploitation of Bangladeshi workers, it also revealed the hidden structure of the global capitalist economy.

Women of color in the US negotiate their reproductive lives in a system that combines various interlocking forms of oppression.

Here are seven inspiring quotations from the past few years contained in Verso's “Book of Dissent.”

JROTC has been overlooked by education researchers.

The revival of local politics is not unrelated to the dashed hopes and lowered expectations of the Obama era.

A prosperous, sustainable future will require a very different kind of economic system.