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Book Reviews

Stylized Old English Map of the Banda Islands

Ending the Curse of Colonialism

Nisha Atalie · January 25, 2022

A new book by Amitav Ghosh explores the beauty, terror, and agency of non-human entities. Sustaining and rebuilding these relationships will be necessary to resist colonialist omnicide.

The Actuality of Abolition

brian bean · December 14, 2021

A new book by Geo Maher makes a forceful case for the necessity of building strong communities that can abolish the police.

Map of the Potawatomi "Trail of Death" march, Sept. - Nov. 1838.

Nation of Immigrants or Settler Colonialism?

Patty Krawec · October 21, 2021

A new book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz shows how the myth of a “nation of immigrants” has been used to erase the history of Indigenous peoples in the US.

Jailbreak of Disability

Keith Rosenthal · August 30, 2021

The abolitionist movement stands to gain key lessons from mass deinstitutionalization, argues Liat Ben-Moshe's latest book.

How Wall Street Trapped American Cities

Elliot Frank · May 27, 2021

City budgets are key targets of local organizing and Defund campaigns, but cities themselves are bound by much larger financial forces. A recent book by Destin Jenkins details how cities became trapped by banks and credit rating agencies intent on austerity and racism.

A Broadened Sense of Abolition

Patty Krawec · April 6, 2021

Our understanding of innocence, guilt, victims, and criminals shapes the worlds we are able to build. New books by Mariame Kaba and Harsha Walia pry open political possibilities.

License to Loot

brian bean · September 29, 2020

Vicky Osterweil’s new book, In Defense of Looting, provides a robust defense of uncivil disobedience and its potential for both radicalizing and exacting change. By dodging the essential issue of organization, however, it leaves many questions unanswered.

A Central Cog of Racist Order

Kevin Moore · July 31, 2020

Simon Balto's Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power tells the racist history and development of the Chicago Police Department.

Bohrer’s loving, fuming critique

Peter Drucker · March 24, 2020

Ashley Bohrer’s Marxism and Intersectionality is indispensable reading for socialists trying to understand how class, race and gender mesh.

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