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December 28, 2020 
Spring’s books of 2020
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…
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December 24, 2020
The Cold Millions
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…
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November 20, 2020
The Ku Klux Klan in Canada
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…
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October 6, 2020
Marxism and intersectionality
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…
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September 29, 2020
Settler capitalism and the colonial imagination
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…
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September 14, 2020
Such a Fun Age : Being Black in white spaces
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…
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September 9, 2020
Lessons from the New Communist Movement
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…
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September 7, 2020
Direct Action Gets the Goods
Direct Action Gets the Goods by the Graphic History Collective (Between the Lines, 2020). I’m sure we’ve all been to rallies, hearing the infectious chant…
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July 20, 2020
Fighting anti-Black racism on and off the field
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin (Haymarket, 2018) Although written two years ago, the themes in Michael Bennett’s Things That…
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July 3, 2020
Rediscovering the Romance of American Communism
The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick (Verso, 2020). Nearly a million Americans were members of the Communist Party. From it’s heady origins in…
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June 16, 2020
The end of policing: A review
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (Verso, 2020). “At root, they fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the…
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May 19, 2020
Let’s be comrades
Comrades: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean (Verso, 2019). I’ll admit it: after ten years as an organized socialist, I’ve only recently warmed…