This week, I’ve been thinking about a book – You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 by Tariq Ali, published by Verso in 2024. I’ve been thinking about it, but I’ve been quite uncertain how to talk about it. Let me explain. Tariq Ali is a well-known radical and writer. He was born into a prominent …
This week, I’ve been thinking quite a lot about a book I read – Art Works: How Organizers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together by Ken Grossinger (New York: The New Press, 2023). It is a short, richly researched book about – as the title suggests – the integration of arts and music …
[James C. Scott. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985.] A classic from a political scientist of anarchist proclivities doing what amounts to anthropology and studying the fine-grained class relations in a peasant village in Malaysia in the late ’70s and early ’80s, in the …