Drawing into double figures with my posts on Victor Serge, my aim here is to bring attention to a really useful new book entitled Vagabond Witness: Victor Serge and the Politics of Hope by Paul Gordon. The book is published by Zer0 Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing, which is doing great work in developing a series of new critical books on culture, society and politics. Gordon’s short book is a wonderful primer on Victor Serge that in just over 100 pages provides highly useful background on the novels, political writings, and memoirs all written by this participant-witness to revolutionary action. Indeed, one of the key themes to emerge from the book is the political act of witnessing: both in terms of Serge’s life of witnessing the experience of revolution and the repressive state in Russia and in witnessing along with other significant contemporaries wider conditions of revolution, repression, and the violence of state power.