Excerpt

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.

By focusing primarily on the victims, memorials often succeed in separating victims from the historical event that caused their death.

This book gives a name to those who do not have one: exoneree.

It remains to be seen whether the US will “stand steadfast” or walk away from the nation it spent so much time ushering into existence.