Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 by Bryan D. Palmer (Haymarket, 2016) The spectre of socialism is haunting the ruling class. Increasingly used to…
This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr. (Duke University Press, 2015). In This…
It’s hard not to despair. We stare at a death sentence, an unparalleled crisis that surpasses boundaries for the nitrogen cycle, the rate of biodiversity…
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 by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson (Ten Speed Press, 2021). In the afterward of David F….
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…
2020 has been a year of intense crisis and inspiring resistance. Here are some of the books we reviewed at Spring Magazine that were sources…
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 Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom by Allan Bartley (Formac, 2020) The Ku Klux…
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…
