Police and Prisons, What Are They Good For?
Last summer’s protests put police and prison abolition on the progressive agenda. Yet it remains difficult to imagine a…
The Indypendent
Matt Wasserman
Sarah Jaffe defies the notion that certain types of work shouldn’t be considered work at all.
We Built It, We Can Tear It Down
Review: “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America”
By James Forman Jr.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017
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…