Wisdom Engaged: Traditional Knowledge for Northern Community Well-Being Edited by Leslie Main Johnson University of Alberta Press, 2019 An invaluable manual for decolonisation, Whose Land Is It Anyway?, includes a…
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto Aaron Bastani Verso, 2019 Fully Automated Luxury Communism is Novara Media co-founder Aaron Bastani’s attempt to turn a popular meme into a political manifesto.…
The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent Martin Lukacs Black Rose Books, 2019 Slick, brand-driven star power legitimizes the neoliberal status quo, obscuring growing inequalities as…
Love & Courage: My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected Jagmeet Singh Simon & Schuster, 2019 Jagmeet Singh has always been the underdog and he thrives on it.…
Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy Alvin Finkel Red Globe Press, 2019 Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy is the latest and most ambitious work of Canadian historian…
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian Harvard University Press, 2018 Quinn Slobodian’s masterful exegesis, an old term befitting his subject, tells of the ur…
No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous Sheldon Krasowski University of Regina Press, 2019 Historian and Indigenous Studies scholar Sheldon Krasowski makes a sterling contribution to the dialogue about treaty negotiations…
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City Tanya Talaga House of Anansi Press, 2017 Thunder Bay Ryan McMahon Canadaland, 2018 Investigative journalist and Toronto Star…
Midsommar Ari Aster B-Reel Films, 2019 Midsommar has been turning heads since it debuted in theatres earlier this month, and the jury is still out on whether it is incredibly…
The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski Verso, 2019 Unpredictability, economic unpredictability in particular, means that…
Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada Graphic History Collective Between the Lines, 2019 Direct Action Gets the Goods is the latest graphic novel…
1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike Graphic History Collective and David Lester Between The Lines, 2019 “History is an important resource for people who want to change…
The Man Who Fell From the Sky Bill Fletcher, Jr. Hardball Press, 2018 Caveat lector. I must confess from the outset that Bill Fletcher is a personal hero of mine.…
I really wanted to read this book objectively, separating it from the media hype and social media torrents of opinion and abuse that often accompany its author, Jordan Peterson. I…
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction Travis Lupick Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017 Every night that Overdose Prevention Ottawa ran its illegal…
Capitalism: A Crime Story Harry Glasbeek Between The Lines, 2018 Harry Glasbeek is a real oddity — a lawyer and professor of corporate law who specializes in exposing the way…
We Can Do Better: Ideas for Changing Society David Camfield Fernwood, 2017 Around the world, people are increasingly looking beyond mainstream politics to combat right-wing populism, growing wealth inequality, and…
available from leftwingbooks.net (mirrored from Marx & Philosophy Review of Books) Sakai has always been provocative. His work, when it is not relegated to obscurity, is treated as either sacrosanct…
A Marxist History of Capitalism Henry Heller Routledge, 2018 Since the 1970s, Marxist discussion of how and when capitalism was born has been dominated by two competing academic currents. World-System…
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