As has become a sort of tradition, I've taken the time on this lazy New Year's day to catalog the stuff I've read, or perhaps listened to, over the course of the past twelve months.
2016 furthered the trend of consuming literature in audio form, as audiobooks are eaier for me to listen to while accomplishing other tasks. I've decided to include the lectures I either personally attended, or listened to online, as well as some of the longer reads and zines I stumbled upon (send me more zine suggestions!).
Looking at some of the other trends I notice that whereas Chomsky dominated the list last year, Michael Parenti seems to have taken up that mantel this time around. Where Anarchist principles have traditionally been the way in which I approach the world, Marxism has increasingly become the lense from which I look through.
I don't think I read any fictional novels this year (I was going to write I didn't read any fiction, but I did subject myself to a few Margaret Wente, Jon Kay, and Scott Gilmore columns, so... that's not completely accurate.) I should really make an attempt to change this in 2017. I love fiction, especially speculative and science fiction and really ought to read more of it.
Books
The Declarations of Havana - Fidel Castro / Tariq Ali
How I Became a Communist - Fidel Castro
Who Rules The World? - Noam Chomsky (You can read my review in the Winnipeg Free Press )
Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire - C. B. Daring (Editor); J. Rogue (Editor); Deric Shannon (Editor); Abbey Volcano(Editor)
Rainbow Solidarity in Defence of Cuba - Leslie Feinberg
The Ethical Slut - Dossie Easton & Janet W. Hardy
Wages of Rebellion - Chris Hedges
Japanese: Ultimate Getting Started - Innovative Language Learning
The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism - V.I. Lenin
“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder - V.I. Lenin
Queer Beats: How The Beats Turned America On To Sex - Regina Marler
Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century - Liz McQuiston
Fascism: A Very Short Introduction - Kevin Passmore
Orientalism - Edward Said
Marx: A Very Short Introduction - Pete Singer
Constructing Ecoterrorism - John Sorenson
Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance - M. Testa
Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? - Mao Tse-tung
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction - Colin Ward
Lectures
A Marx for Our Times: Who Can Speak to Race, Class and Colonialism - Kevin Anderson
Marx and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat - Brian Bean
Socialist & War: Two Opposing Trends (Lecture) - Brian Becker
Bolshevism and National Liberation Revisited - Eric Blanc
Che Guevara - Sam Farber
Unite and Fight: The Politics of Solidarity in the Anti-Racist Struggle - Anton Ford
Lenin and Bukharin on Imperialism - Phil Gasper
Are the Métis Treaty People? - Adam Gaudry
Reading Marx's Capital Vol. 1 with David Harvey (Series of Lecture) - David Harvey
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Lucy Herschel
The Arabs in Israel: The Inaudible Cry for Full Citizenship - Sayed Kashua
After Neoliberalism: Can the Working Class Still Change the World? - Paul Kellogg
Eugene Debs and the U.S. Socialist Tradition - Marlene Martin
Reaction, Reform and Revolution - Meredith McIntyre
1917 | How The Bolsheviks Came to Power - Alpana Mehta
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense - Donna Murch
A Critical Assessment of the New World Order - (Lecture) - Michael Parenti
Contrary Notions (Lecture) - Michael Parenti
Lies, War & Empire (Lecture) - Michael Parenti
Reflections on the Overthrow of Communism (Lecture) - Michael Parenti
From Civil Rights to Black Power - Haley Pessin
Labor in the Digital Age: How New is the New Capitalism? - Makund Rathi
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Marx and Nature - Elizabeth Terzakis
Constructing Ecoterrorism - John Sorenson
Dissertations, Thesis & Articles of Note
The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn't - Stephen Gowans
Decriminalising Bashar: Towards A More Effective Anti-War Movement - Carlos Martinez
Zines
Dear Journal issue 2 (Zine)
the everyday (Zine)
Confessions of a Queer (Zine)