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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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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…
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February 28, 2022
This Side of Glory: Biography of a Black Panther
David Hilliard’s autobiography tells the story of the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and provides some incredible lessons for those trying to organize for change today.
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February 11, 2022
Fighting for a people’s Green New Deal
A People’s Green New Deal by Max Ajl (Pluto Press, 2021) Climate change is no longer a niche subject that climate scientists argue about in…
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January 11, 2022
Revisiting ‘The Marrow Thieves’: dystopia in the age of failed reconciliation
Dimaline’s narrative tells a powerful story of Indigenous resistance as community bands together to resist corporate and colonial intrusion, propelling a resurgent narrative by reclaiming ground erased by colonialism.
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December 23, 2021
What we read in 2021
As we approach the end of 2021, and look forward to some holiday reading, Spring socialists share their favourite reads of the past year. Beautiful…