James Cairns’ collection of essays begins by examining the questions one would expect from an academic book on “crisis”: What is a crisis? Who defines…
China: Rise, Repression & Resistance By Adrian Budd (Bookmarks, 2024) Adrian Budd’s new book China: Rise, Repression & Resistance wrestles with the contradictions of China’s…
Metastasis: The Rise of The Cancer-Industrial Complex and The Horizons of Care by Nafis Hasan (Common Notions Press, 2025) In his recent book, Metastasis: The…
Paul Rekret’s Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis (London: Goldsmiths Press, 2024) There is a long history of music expressing resistance. It includes enslaved people…
Omar El Akkad’s latest book, One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, articulates the emptiness, anguish, and contradictions many of us have experienced while witnessing our governments’ complicity and even justification for the genocide in Gaza. The liberal establishment’s silence and inaction is appalling, but as El Akkad argues, it is not out of character.
“Mo” is a groundbreaking television series that offers a heartfelt and humorous exploration of what it means to be a Palestinian American navigating the complexities…
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (M Pasquinelli, Verso 2023) Much breathless commentary has in recent years been exhaled about…
Vladimir Lenin’s “Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder” was written in 1920 amidst the Russian Civil War and with the Bolsheviks in power. Lenin wrote the…
Speaking to an audience in Harlem in December 1964 after returning from his second trip to Africa, Malcolm X drew connections between the struggle against…
Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anti Communist Crusade by Jeff Schuhrke (2024). Have you ever wondered why the labour bureaucracy…
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2024). Within the diaspora of writings that…
In settler-colonial society, we constantly declare and acknowledge that we reside and gather on the “unceded territory” of Indigenous peoples. But do we ever stop…
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