Reviews
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 mean ~ Jay Arachnid ~ The selections from eponymous website threewayfight.org are arranged chronologically rather than thematically, which is a fair enough editorial decision.
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 ~ Rabihan Luleci ~ The current struggle for women in the Islamic Republic of Iran is approached through a variety of artistic styles in this book.
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 from the late 1970s and the 1980s, you can feel the effort that Matt Worley has poured into this.
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
Book review: A Thousand Little Machines
June 14th: A/traverso magazine and its editor Franco “Bifo” Berardi were central to the Italian autonomist movement and animated the tumultuous events of 1977
Review: My Port of Beirut
April 24th: When people treat each other like human beings, what they share in the aftermath of destruction is not so much the spectacle of destruction itself but the vital joy of life that has been ripped away.
Worth fighting for: Bringing the Rojava revolution home
January 12th: It's not surprising that the most precious thing we brought back from Rojava was a sense of hope.
