Who cleans the world? This urgent question which Françoise Vergès poses at the outset of A Decolonial Feminism sets the tone and trajectory of this powerful book, encouraging readers to wrestle with their preconceived notions of care work and the reproductive labour that working class racialised women engage in.

A Decolonial Feminism
Françoise Vergès (trans. by Ashley J. Bohrer)
Pluto Press, 2021
9780745341125

Ezra Otieno of Kenya’s Revolutionary Socialist League writes how Caroline Elkins' study of the violence of the British Empire illuminates the colonial legacy that remains in Kenya and informs its present internal contradictions and, fundamentally, how independence in the country is still a mirage.

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Caroline Elkins
Bodley Head, 2022
9781847921062

The United States and British establishments are in mourning over Afghanistan. Not because of the tens of thousands of lives lost but for fear of America's declining influence. This is what makes Daniel Immerwahr’s book such a vital resource, as it details how the empire was born and how it continues to change.

How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
Macmillan, 2020
9781250251091

Rather than a mass act of mindless violence, as the American press reported it, Bevins convincingly writes that the violence in Indonesia was part of a program of international anticommunist extermination that repeated itself in Guatemala in 1954, Brazil in 1964, and Chile in 1973.

The Jakarta Method
Vincent Bevins
Public Affairs, May 2020
9781541742406

Yanguas is perfectly placed to provide insight on the contradiction between intentions of funders and the wider development community, however,Yanguas never explicitly questions how the true goals of the development agencies of imperialist capitalist powers might differ from – or even contradict – their stated goals.

Why We Lie About Aid
Pablo Yanguas
Zed Books, 2018
9781783609338

In Fully Automated Luxury Communism Aaron Bastani ignores the actual gains of communism while attempting to do-battle with capitalism over consumer culture, and rather than looking to the countless people raised out of poverty he looks to Silicon Valley, space, and music videos.

Full Automated Luxury Communism
Aaron Bastani
Verso, 2019
9781786632623