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Review | April 4, 2025

Omar El Akkad’s indictment of Western liberal hypocrisy and complicity in genocide

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.

Review | 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…

Review | 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…

Review | 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…

Review | 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…

Review | 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.

Review | 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.

Review | 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 …

Review | 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…

Review | 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.

Review | 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…

Review | 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.