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Road to Nowhere

by Paris Marx

Why Elon Musk and the Silicon Valley visionaries have the future of transport so wrong

1 post
We Organize to Change Everything

Edited by Natalie Adler, Marian Jones, et al.

An urgent collection on losing Roe v. Wade, struggling to provide abortion across the Americas, and how we can rebuild a fighting movement for reproductive justice

5 posts
Captives

by Jarrod Shanahan

The definitive history of America’s most notorious jail and the violent rise of New York City’s law-and-order movement

2 posts
Abolition Geography

by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

New collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration

3 posts

The Rising of the Women

by Meredith Tax

How working-class women changed the course of history
Mistaken Identity

by Asad Haider

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle

27 posts
Silicon Values

by Jillian C. York

The Battle for Online Rights and for the Future of Democracy

3 posts
The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now

by Cedric Johnson

Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality

1 post

Ecology of Fear

by Mike Davis

A new edition of this classic book on Los Angeles

2 posts
The South

by Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear.

2 posts
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers

by John Nichols

A furious denunciation of America’s coronavirus criminals

1 post
The Invention of the White Race

by Theodore W. Allen

Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America

2 posts

Britain’s Empire

by Richard Gott

A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empire

19 posts
The End of Policing

by Alex S. Vitale

The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition

51 posts
Darkwater

by W.E.B. Du Bois

“Du Bois essentially defined black America in the twentieth century.”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates

25 posts
A Kick in the Belly

by Stella Dadzie

The story of how enslaved women struggled for freedom in the West Indies

15 posts

The Spoils of War

by Andrew Cockburn

Why does the United States go to war?

4 posts
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

by Deepa Kumar

A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edition

4 posts
A World Without Police

by Geo Maher

If police are the problem, what’s the solution?

16 posts
Set the Night on Fire

by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties

18 posts

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