The article below also appears at POV Magazine, which is providing comprehensive coverage of the Hot Docs festival, including an alternative take on the film reviewed below (by Judy Wolf).…
I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck Velvet Films, 2016 Now and then, and despite its capitalist and racial biases, our culture throws up something that can speak quite eloquently…
Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State Yale Belange & Whitney Lackenbauer McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015 Canada has a long history of Indigenous resistance to colonialism. A geography…
A Future Without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada Ester Reiter Between the Lines, 2016 This is a wonderfully dense, rich, descriptive and analytical volume,…
Open Bethlehem Leila Sansour Iambic Dream, 2015 He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion…
Transnational Radicals: Italian Anarchists in Canada and the U.S., 1915-1940 Travis Tomchuk University of Manitoba Press, 2015 There are numerous studies of the left in Canada. These studies range from…
Key Words for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle Edited by Ian Kelly Fritsch, Clare O’Connor and AK Thompson AK Press, 2016 In social movements, terms like “accessibility,” “bodies,”…
Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle Edited by The Graphic History Collective with Paul Buhle Between the Lines, 2016 Comic books have a political substance whether we like…
Elephants Mother Tareka & the Rebel Funktion Self-released, 2016 With blasting Afro-beat horn lines, a funky rhythm section, clever samples and lyrics that cut to the point of the major…
A Propaganda System: How Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation Yves Engler Fernwood, 2016 Propaganda is only as good as the processes through which it is concealed.…
13th Ava DuVernay 2016 Avu DuVernay’s latest documentary 13th comes at an important junction in American history. The 2016 presidential elections confirmed that divisions of race and class continue to…
I’m not sure when the state of our heels became such a huge concern, but apparently it’s a big thing. Like. At some point in the past few years, someone…
A book review of Torkil Lauesen 380 pages Nemo Publishing, Copenhagen 2016 by Stein Lillevolden (social worker) First posted at: https://radikalportal.no/2016/05/27/det-ulike-bytte/ Also published in the Danish newsletter Demos In the…
Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada Ian Milligan University of British Columbia Press, 2014 Many readers of this magazine will remember April 1971.…
Milton Acorn: The People’s Poet Kent Martin & Errol Sharpe Roseway Publishing, 2015 Though I had heard of Milton Acorn for many years before his death in 1986, I never…
Still from The Pass System The Pass System Alex Williams 2015 Starting in the 1880s, the federal government implemented an illegal pass system to restrict Indigenous peoples in Western Canada…
Released by PM Press in collaboration with Kersplebedeb in 2014, Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers recalls the exploits of the so-called Blekingegade Gang,…
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification Jeff Halper Pluto Press, 2015 Jeff Halper is an unusual hybrid presence on both the scholarly and political scene. He…
After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians Gordon Laxer Douglas & McIntyre, 2015 When Ralph Nader called Gordon Laxer’s book After the Sands “a myth-destroying blockbuster” it couldn’t...
Social Structures of Direct Democracy: On The Political Economy of Equality John Asimakopoulos Haymarket, 2016 The role of superdelegates in some Democratic Party caucuses is current news that has people…
