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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Over 40 years later, this text remains essential reading for anyone serious about building a multi-racial, international, working-class movement that could actually challenge rule by the one percent.
Stuck at home? Tired of talking to the same person every day or alone and talking to the walls? Watched everything on Netflix or not…
The People’s Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski (Verso, 2019) As COVID-19 engulfs the globe, the perpetual tension within capitalism between private…
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser (Verso, 2019) Always shape-shifting, capitalism has recently assumed a new form:…
