The Dig: Anti-War w/ Ben Mabie & Salar Mohandesi

Manissa Maharawal's Anti-Eviction documents the rise of a grassroots movement in San Francisco that contested tech-led displacement in the 2010s. Drawing on ethnography and activist practice, Maharawal traces how organizers—many rooted in Occupy—built community strategies like Google bus blockades and fought for policies such as rent stabilization and community land trusts. The book situates tech gentrification as a form of modern colonization and critiques market-only solutions that produce luxury housing rather than deeply affordable units. Maharawal combines personal stories of teachers, nurses, bartenders, and public school staff with policy analysis to show how collective action changed local conversations and secured some tenant protections. Ultimately, the book argues for regulation, social housing, and organized resistance as necessary counterweights to financialized housing markets.

Venezuela in Crisis gathers essays and analyses from Venezuelan socialists critically examining the political and economic crises that have affected the country in recent years. The volume foregrounds the perspectives of grassroots leftists and activists, arguing for democratic, anti-authoritarian, and anti-imperialist approaches to address the country's challenges. It situates Venezuela's difficulties within broader regional and global dynamics, including sanctions, external interference, and internal policy failures. Editors and contributors emphasize solidarity with Venezuelan people while critiquing state practices that diverge from emancipatory socialist aims. The book aims to provide nuanced alternatives to both neoliberal prescriptions and uncritical defense of the Venezuelan government.