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November 24, 2022 
A people’s history of L.A. in the 60s
Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener (Verso, 2020) Mike Davis died last month after a long…
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November 14, 2022
Love and abolition
Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones (Fernwood, 2022) Abolitionist Intimacies is an urgent intervention against the deportation of stateless Black bodies failed by every level of…
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October 28, 2022
Glory: post-colonial struggles in the age of neoliberalism
NoViolet Bulawayo uses literature to explore the failings of postcolonial regimes in the age of neoliberalism where the reforms promised during independence struggles became subservient to the economic imperatives of trade agreements, IMF loans, and the privatization of public works.
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October 3, 2022
The fight for reproductive justice is an abolitionist struggle
Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada by Martha Paynter (Fernwood, 2022). With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights are coming…
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September 23, 2022
How strikes made the elementary teachers’ union
Class Action: How Ontario’s Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force by Andy Hanson (Between the Lines, 2021) Andy Hanson’s Class Action is an accessible and…
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August 16, 2022
How can we build class struggle unionism?
Class Struggle Unionism is a vital book that lays out a very clear and specific criteria for those of us interested in strengthening the ability of the labour movement to fight and win.
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July 25, 2022
How the CIA sabotaged African independence
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams (Public Affairs, 2021) There is no denying that many countries in Africa…
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July 13, 2022
James P. Cannon and the revolutionary socialist tradition
James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 by Bryan D. Palmer (Brill, 2021) James P. Cannon and the Emergence…
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July 5, 2022
Smashing the cult of Churchill
Churchill is a symbol for the continued project of imperialism, colonialism and capitalist rule. Underneath the charming and quirky portrayals we are fed in the media lies a politician who supported almost every reactionary cause of his day and whose crimes in service of the empire extended across the globe.
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July 1, 2022
Uprooting Canada: A review of ‘Capitalism & Dispossession’
‘Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad’ examines case studies of colonial atrocities that are not incidental failures of Canadian capitalism, but are coordinated operations vital to the functioning of the Canadian state.
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May 10, 2022
How global McCarthyism shaped the world
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins (Public Affairs: 2020) As debates rage about …
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March 22, 2022
Latin America and the theory of permanent revolution
Permanent Revolution in Latin America by John Roberts and Jorge Martín (Wellred Books, 2018) Latin America holds a special place in the political imagination of…