Civil rights at work: Lessons from the 1970s
Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide by Lane Windham (The University of North Carolina…
Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide by Lane Windham (The University of North Carolina…
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History is an essential primer for those wanting to learn more about the most radical political forces from the 1960s, to understand the political debates that were had and continued to be had regarding how we overcome/destroy white supremacy and capitalism.
China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance edited by Eli Friedman, Zhongjin Li, and Hao Ren (Haymarket, 2016) Published in 2016, China on Strike is a collection of…
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter (HarperCollins, 2020) Writing political fiction can be a tricky task. How to imbue a story with the spirit of…
The Dead Are Arising: the Life of Malcolm X, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright, 2020). For many revolutionaries, The Autobiography of Malcolm X…
The Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom by Allan Bartley (Formac, 2020) The Ku Klux…
Enemy Alien: A true story of life behind barbed wire by Kassandra Luciuk and Nicole Marie Burton (Between the Lines, 2020). Enemy Alien tells the…
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford (Zed Books, 2020). Disability issues are not just…
Marxism and Intersectionality by Ashley Bohrer (Columbia University Press, 2020) “After years of defending intersectionality in Marxist circles, and of defending historical materialism in intersectional…
Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination by Tyler A. Shipley (Fernwood, 2020). In 2009, Stephen Harper received widespread criticism for declaring…
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019). Kiley Reid has written a powerful book about being Black in white spaces in…
Revolution in the Air by Max Elbaum (Verso, 2018) Max Elbaum’s Revolution in the Air looks at the late 1960s and early 1970s, the wave…