Anti Fascism: 100 Years in the Streets
Shane Burley
M00o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrBook Reviews
A Lasting Influence
Bob Eastman
M10o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrConfronting Injustice: From Individual Activists to Collective Organizers
A review of Confronting Injustice: social activism in an age of individualism
Karl Gardner
Undocumented: Making State Violence & Professional Complicity Visible
A review of Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention
Jenna Loyd
Resurgence not Recognition
A review of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Craig Fortier
Critique and Experimentation: Anti-Authoritarian Organizing Strategies in Anglo-America
A review of Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements
Tyler McCreary
Liberation as Medicine: Lessons from Radical Health Workers
A review of Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
Jannie Wing-sea Leung
Gay Gentrification and the Thin Pink Line
A review of Safe Space: Gay Neighbourhood History and the Politics of Violence.
Patrick DeDauw
Making Alternative Worlds: Journeys into Third Space
Theresa Warburton
M80o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrOrganizing From a Place of Love
Rebecca Tumposky
M90o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrBlack Revolutionary Communism Today
A review of Defying the Tomb.
Kersplebedeb, 2010.
Steve da Silva
Against Representation
A review of Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent.
AK Press, 2010.
Alex Khasnabish
“Are You Willing to Let the Work Transform You?”
A review of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within
Activist Communities. South End Press, 2011.
Kate Klein
What Comes Between Us
A review of Introduction to Civil War
Etienne Turpin
Dangerous Conflation
A review of Antisemitism Real and Imagined: Responses to the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism
Chandra Kumar
Queering the Cold War
A review of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation
Tim McCaskell
Return of the Sun
A review of The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind
Sara Falconer
Toward the “Next Liberation Struggle”
A review of Revolutionary Traveller: Freeze-Frames from a Life, Arbeiter Ring, 2009.
Noaman G. Ali
Another World is Possible
A review of You Don’t Play with Revolution: the Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. AK Press, 2009.
Pat Harewood
Imperial History, Liberal Response
A review of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, RED/Fernwood Publishing, 2009
Jerome Klassen
Polemics for the People?
A review of The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History, Volume 1: Projectiles for the People. PM Press/Kersplebedeb, 2009.
Jeff Shantz
Fanning the Flames
A review of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. AK Press
Sean Benjamin
The New Abolitionists
Erika Meiners
M220o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrNot Just a Smear Tactic
Matthew N. Lyons
M230o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrDeath of a Dichotomy: Tactical Diversity and the Politics of Post-Violence
Anna Feigenbaum
M240o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrBlack Power From the Inside
A review of We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975.
Chris Harris
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
A review of A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture
Reviewed by Bryan Doherty
Coming to Terms With Commodity Culture
A review of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy
Jen Angel
Motivating the Nihilists
A review of Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Reviewed by Alejandro de Acosta
Defending Zizek’s Map
A review of In Defense of Lost Causes
Reviewed by Neil Balan
Highly Mediated
A review of The Political Economy of Media
Reviewed by DT Cochrane
Voices of Freedom
A review of Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movement to Free US Political Prisoners
Reviewed by Ernesto Aguilar
Digging Up Autonomia
A review of Autonomia: Post Political Politics
Reviewed by Frank Edgewick
Solidarity and Responsibility
A review of Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai’i
Reviewed by Katy Rose
A Tool Against Apartheid
A review of Canada’s Economic Apartheid
Reviewed by Scott Neigh
Fighting the Co-optation of Resistance
A review of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Reviewed by Chris Keefer
Toward Autonomous Feminist Politics
A review of Color of Violence: the INCITE! Anthology
Reviewed by Alexis Shotwell
Of Capital and Compromise
A review of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Reviewed by David Calnitsky
Getting Over Guilt
A review of Taking Responsibility Taking Direction: White Anti-Racism in Canada
Reviewed by Scott Clarke
Local and Organic
A review of Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism
Reviewed by Kimiko Inouye
Guilty Indulgences
A review of Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society
Reviewed by Sharmeen Khan
After the Storm
A review of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity
Reviewed by Yutaka Dirks
The Sociology of Confrontation
A review of Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research
Reviewed by Scott Neigh
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
Reviewed by Tyler McCreary
M430o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation
Reviewed by Karl Kersplebedeb
M440o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrTen Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution
Reviewed by Kirat Kaur
M450o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrA View of Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks
Reviewed by Adrian Harewood
M460o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrMultitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Reviewed by D. Oswald Mitchell
M470o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrUndoing Gender
Reviewed by Erin Gray
M480o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfrCall for Submissions - for Issue 19
We’re organizing the next issue of Upping the Anti! We are calling on all activists and writers to consider publishing their latest political treatise! Deadline for pitches is Sep 30th, 2016
New Interventions Pamphlet by Kris Hermes on Jail Solidarity
With the Republican National Convention just weeks away in Cleveland, Upping the Anti is pleased to publish an article on the importance of jail solidarity in radical social movements. Giving a history of a range of mass demonstrations from world economic organizations to national conventions in the US, Hermes discusses the importance of jail solidarity tactics for activists today. Read the pamphlet here and you can also download it, reproduce and distribute!
Call for Submissions - for Issue 18
It’s time to start organizing the next issue of Upping the Anti! We are calling on all activists and writers to consider publishing their lastest political treatise! Deadline for pitches is Oct. 17, 2015
Help! We’ve Been Robbed (by capitalism)
Upping the Anti has had to delay the printing of Issue 17 due to the theft of our funds. If you can, please renew your subscription or give a donation to help us through these dark, tough times. (Photo of kitten in article!)
Call out for proposals for Issue 17
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