Rec | READING FOR THE RESISTANCE! LEFTIST LIT

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A mix of classics and incredible recently published work Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine - Noura Erakat Slow Down - Kohei Saito The Great Displacement - Jake Bittle Reconsidering Reparations - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Losing Earth: A Recent History - Nathaniel Rich All We Can Save - edited by Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K Wilkinson As Long as Grass Grows - Dina Gilio Whitaker The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio The Shock Doctrine- Naomi Klein Orwell’s Roses - Rebecca Solnit The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex - edited by Matilda Bickers A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum - Françoise Vergès Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance - Shourideh Molavi The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina - Mercedes Biocca Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice - edited by Cindy Barukh Milstein And one extra for the season: It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror - edited by Joe Vallese

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Oct 19, 2024

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