The Indypendent
Matt Wasserman
Finding Seeds of the Future in the Present
Peter Frase’s “Four Futures” is an ambitious attempt to grapple with what climate change and automation mean for left politics.
Two authors explore different ways race and class have shaped U.S. history
This is an Uprising How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century By Mark Engler and Paul Engler Nation…
Gentrification As Oral History
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century DW Gibson Overlook Press, 2015…
Movies: Confronting the Ghetto, From the Black Panthers to Hip-Hop
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Directed by Stanley Nelson (2015) Straight Outta Compton Directed by F. Gary Grey…
Revolution from Behind the Walls
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era By Dan Berger University of North Carolina Press, 2014…
The Insiders’ View: Indymedia & Occupy
Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left Todd Wolfson University of Illinois Press, 2014 The Occupiers: The Making…
Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy
Twilight of the Elites By Christopher Hayes Crown Publishers, 2012 The word “meritocracy” was originally intended as a satirical…
Make the Road: Learning from Movement for a New Society
Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society By Andrew Cornell AK Press, 2011 For those on…