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Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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

10 posts
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle

How computation makes it more difficult to understand the world: Fully updated and revised

22 posts
The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine

by Andrew Cockburn

Why Does America Go to War?

6 posts
Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia

by Natalie Koch

A revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West, by way of camels, date palms, and Biosphere 2

1 post

Combat Trauma

by Nadia Abu El-Haj

A rigorous and incisive study of combat trauma and American militarism

1 post
The Rise of a New Left

by Raina Lipsitz

How the first major leftwing generation since the sixties has shaped electoral politics

3 posts
Police

by David Correia and Tyler Wall

A radical guide to the language of policing

27 posts
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx

How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all

4 posts

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

7 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
The Rising of the Women

by Meredith Tax

How working-class women changed the course of history

1 post
Mistaken Identity

by Asad Haider

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

26 posts

Silicon Values

by Jillian C. York

The Battle for Online Rights and for the Future of Democracy

4 posts
The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now

by Cedric G. Johnson

Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality

2 posts
Ecology of Fear

by Mike Davis

A new edition of this classic book on Los Angeles

4 posts
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

by Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

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

4 posts

Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers

by John Nichols

A furious denunciation of America’s coronavirus criminals

2 posts
The Invention of the White Race

by Theodore W. Allen

Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America

7 posts
Britain’s Empire

by Richard Gott

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

20 posts
The End of Policing

by Alex S. Vitale

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

52 posts

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