Reviews
Book Review: In China With Green Day
March 8th: Cometbus is arguably the most important self-published document of the end of the millennium American punk rock landscape ~ Soral X ~ First, a con…
Book review: Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
November 5th: A principled anarchist who faced death with bravery, Fumiko Kaneko is a model of unwavering defiance in the face of overwhelming odds ~ Jay Arachni…
Sound providing a base for fury
September 28th: Review of Anarcho-Punk by David Insurrection ~ Phil ~ Having a place, a venue, a local or social centre, somewhere you and yours can feel at home …
Book review: Desire and Fate
September 17th: Instead of a coherent critique of woke culture, we get a confused, grudge-laden screed that fails to balance the left’s internal contradictio…
Book review: Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues
August 15th: The Chicago Surrealist Franklin Rosemont tapped the subversive energy of popular culture ~ Ryan Bunnell ~ Since its inception, Surrealism has been …
Film Review: To Kill A War Machine
June 30th: This lucid and passionate documentary about Palestine Action is well worth viewing before Starmer’s “social democrats” censor it ~ Rob Ra…
Book review: Everything To Play For
June 29th: Marijam Did’s sharply-observed and well researched dive into the politics of gaming fills a major gap in how the Left has approached the subj…
Book review: History of the Anarchist Red Cross
May 27th: Yelensky’s Shadows in the Struggle for Equality is a masterful exploration of his lifetime supporting political prisoners ~ SoraLX ~ During the c…
Book review: Three Way Fight
February 2nd: The essays collected here outline what being against 21st century fascism — both as it exists inside and outside the State — can and should mea…
Book review: Woman, Life, Freedom
January 3rd: Directed by celebrated graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, this variety of insightful vignettes also leaves out minority voices…
Book Review: Safety Through Solidarity
November 21st: Burley and Lorber’s project is both honourable and necessary, but why do they let Marxist antisemitism off the hook?
Book review: Zerox Machine
November 5th: An absolute triumph of punk scholarship and alternative historiography ~ Jim Donaghey ~ Reading through this richly detailed overview of punk zines…
Book review: No Harmless Power
October 29th: This warts-and-all bio of Nestor Makhno is folksy and refreshing ~ bob ness ~ I’m an old-fashioned guy, a romantic, even.
“We’re going to need each other”: Viewing Freedom’s election night coverage
July 9th: Listening to people who have a shared passion for liberation, abolition and climate justice made the night actually enjoyable
Book review: The Displaced
June 30th: A poignant story of a couple struggling to understand each other with the backdrop of Europe as a crossroads
