Review Essays

This is a list of all review essays published on LeftTwoThree since the blog was launched on January 1, 2021.

  • “Ecological Leninism: Friend or Foe?” (review of Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century and How to Blow up a Pipeline), LeftTwoThree, January 2, 2021.
  • “The Difficult Road to Peace in Northern Ireland” (joint review of Liam Ó Ruairc, Peace or Pacification? Northern Ireland After the Defeat of the IRA, and Patrick Magee, Where Grieving Begins), LeftTwoThree, February 5, 2021.
  • “Diaspora Anarchism” (review of Cindy Milstein, ed., There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists), LeftTwoThree, February 28, 2021.
  • “The iOS State” (review of Eric Laursen, The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State), LeftTwoThree, March 31, 2021. Read a response by Eric Laursen.
  • “Native Liberation and a World Without Borders” (review of Nick Estes et al., Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation), LeftTwoThree, April 22, 2021.
  • “Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right” (review of E. Tani and Kaé Sera, False Nationalism False Internationalism), LeftTwoThree, May 29, 2021.
  • “‘Neither Surrender Nor Hopelessness Are an Option’” (review of Havin Guneser, The Art of Freedom: A Brief History of the Kurdish Liberation Struggle), LeftTwoThree, June 28, 2021.
  • “Black Anarchism, No Maps” (review of William C. Anderson, The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition), LeftTwoThree, October 31, 2021.
  • “Green, Left and Right” (review of Peter Staudenmaier, Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics between Left and Right), LeftTwoThree, December 30, 2021.
  • “Dawning on You…” (review of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity), LeftTwoThree, January 23, 2022.
  • “Beyond Climate Capitalism” (review of Peter Gelderloos, The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below), LeftTwoThree, February 21, 2022 (also in German).
  • “The Sports-Industrial Complex” (review of Craig Calcaterra, Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sport-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game), LeftTwoThree, April 30, 2022.
  • “Identity Politics and Feuerbach 11” (review of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)), LeftTwoThree, September 30, 2022.
  • “The Factory Floor Delivers” (review of Jon Melrod, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War), LeftTwoThree, November 1, 2022.
  • “A Fat Guy in Shorts” (review of Stewart McGill and Vince Raison, The Roaring Red Front: The World’s Top Left-Wing Football Clubs), LeftTwoThree, December 1, 2022.
  • “Pan-Africanism and Marxism” (review of Walter Rodney, Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution), LeftTwoThree, December 1, 2022.
  • “Football Antifa” (review of Chris Lee, The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism), LeftTwoThree, December 31, 2022.
  • “Ground Zero for Hardcore” (review of Jim Ruland, Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records), LeftTwoThree, December 31, 2022.
  • “Colorwashing Black Metal” (review of Daniel Lukes and Stanimir Panayotov, eds., Black Metal Rainbows), LeftTwoThree, January 31, 2023.
  • “Warrior“ (review of Louis Karoniaktajeh Hill, The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival), LeftTwoThree, January 31, 2023.
  • “Did Antifascism Invent the Left?” (review of Joseph Fronczak’s Everything Is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism), LeftTwoThree, February 28, 2023.
  • “Living with the Lower Case” (review of Don Hamerquist, A Brilliant Red Thread), LeftTwoThree, March 31, 2023.
  • “McAntiwar and more” (review of J. Sakai, The Shape of Things to Come), LeftTwoThree, April 30, 2023.
  • “Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition” (review of Atticus Bagby-Williams and Nsambu Za Suekama, Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition: Moving Beyond Racial Capitalism), LeftTwoThree, July 30, 2023.
  • “Jewish Anarchisms” (review of Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer (eds.), With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism), LeftTwoThree, September 30, 2023.
  • “Migrant Justice and (Anti)Imperialism” (review of Immanuel Ness, Migration as Economic Imperialism), LeftTwoThree, September 30, 2023.
  • “The Lives of Anarchists” (joint review of Charlie Allison, No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno, and Ole Birk Laursen, Anarchy or Chaos: M.P.T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom), LeftTwoThree, November 30, 2023.
  • “Anarcho-Indigenism” (review of Francis Dupuis-Déri and Benjamin Pillet, eds., Anarcho-Indigenism: Conversations on Land And Freedom), LeftTwoThree, December 31, 2023.
  • “Learning from the South” (review of Pascal Bianchini, Ndongo Samba Sylla, and Leo Zeilig, eds., Revolutionary Movements in Africa: An Untold Story), LeftTwoThree, December 31, 2023.
  • “Green Colonialism” (review of Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sanwell, eds., Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region), LeftTwoThree, December 31, 2023.
  • “On Roots, Shadows, and Victories” (review of Firoze Manji and Bill Fletcher, Jr. (eds), Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amílcar Cabral, new edition), LeftTwoThree, March 31, 2024.
  • “No Borders” (review of John Washington, The Case for Open Borders), LeftTwoThree, May 1, 2024.
  • “Always a Political Phenomenon” (review of Ramon Usall, Kicking Off Around the World: 55 Stories From When Football Met Politics), LeftTwoThree, July 31, 2024.