Designed for educators and facilitators from the union hall to the lecture hall, this book outlines revolutionary lesson plans on how to fight the power with people power. The thirteen lesson plans can be used independently or combined to create a semester-long course. Sections include units on teaching political economy, labour history, and social activism based on democratic, experiential teaching, including role-plays, simulations, and games. The tried and tested classroom activities in this teacher’s guide—successfully applied in high schools, universities, and union classrooms—are bound to create a vibrant learning experience.

A must-have for grad students and professors alike, this book is a practical guide to navigating academia for people who want to improve their own day-to-day work lives and create better conditions for everyone. Drawing on real-world, international examples where people and institutions are already doing things in new ways, the book covers many areas of academic life including course design, conferencing, administration, research teams, managing workloads, and more. Designed for faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other scholars, this book is a must-read that delivers hope and practical actions you can take to start making change now.

Calling all social work students! This book responds to the timely and important call for police abolition by analyzing professional social work as one alternative commonly proposed as a ready-made solution to ending police brutality. Drawing on both historical analysis and lessons learned from decades of organizing abolitionist and decolonizing practices within the field and practice of social work (including social service, community organizing, and other helping fields), this book is an important contribution in the discussion of what abolitionist social work could look like. Rejecting the practices and values encapsulated by professional social work as embedded in carceral and colonial systems, this book moves us towards a social work framework guided by principles of mutual aid, accountability, and relationality led by Indigenous, Black, queer/trans*, racialized, immigrant, disabled, poor and other communities for whom social work has inserted itself into their lives.

Perfect for students of environmental and Indigenous studies, this book offers a compelling roadmap to a livable future where Indigenous sovereignty and climate justice go hand in hand. This book provides an accessible overview of the climate crisis that draws from the authors’ work in Indigenous activism, the labour movement, youth climate campaigns, community-engaged scholarship, and independent journalism. Packed with clear-eyed analysis of both short- and long-term strategies for radical social change, this book promises that the next world is within reach and worth fighting for.

The perfect short reading for courses on housing and Canadian urban geography, this trailblazing manifesto takes a deep yet accessible dive into the housing market in Canada. What if there is no housing crisis, but instead a housing market working exactly as intended? What if rent hikes and eviction notices aren’t the work of the invisible hand of the market, but of a parasitic elite systematically funnelling wealth away from working-class families? With clarity and precision, author Ricardo Tranjan breaks down pervasive myths about renters, mom-and-pop landlords, and housing affordability. Drawing upon a long, inspiring history of collective action in Canada, Tranjan argues that organized tenants have the power to fight back.

An excellent primer on green politics, this book dispels twenty myths about green capitalism, breaking down the climate crisis in an easy-to-follow way. The book provides inspiration for building grassroots environmental movements, presenting compelling evidence for why carbon market policies will fail, why a capitalist economy cannot be based on renewable energy sources, and why we should be protesting against overproduction, not overconsumption.

A short and fun introductory book for gender studies students interested in the intersections of self-care and neoliberalism, this book mounts an easy-to-read sharply critical investigation into contemporary “self-care” practices—particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such as tantra and yoga, as well as gluten-free and low-carbohydrate diets. The authors argue that “self-care” has become an industry, and one that is often marketed to and by wealthy, cisgender, white women in the global north. In fact all of the books in the Decolonize That! series would make excellent and enjoyable assigned reading in undergraduate courses probing questions of decolonization, gender, race, and class. 

An excellent introductory book for those studying criminology and sociology of law, this edited collection brings together writing from a range of activists and scholars, whose words are rooted in experience and solidarity with those putting their lives on the line to fight for police abolition in Canada. Together, they imagine a different world—one in which police power is eroded and dissolved forever, one in which it is possible to respond to distress and harm with assistance and care.

For those interested in labour studies and migration, this book provides a personal and compelling perspective on Canada’s immigration system. This deeply personal memoir takes readers behind the scenes to see what life is really like for the people who produce Canada’s food. When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada, he thought he would be leaving his home in St. Lucia to work in a country with a sterling human rights reputation and commitment to multiculturalism. Instead, breakneck quotas and a culture of fear dominated his four years in a mega-greenhouse in Ontario. Now, as a leading activist in the migrant justice movement in Canada, Allahdua is fighting back against the Canadian government to demand rights and respect for temporary foreign labourers. 

The Graphic History Collective is a group of activists, artists, writers, and researchers passionate about comics, history, and social change. They produce alternative histories—people’s histories—in an accessible format to help people understand the historical roots of contemporary social issues. These books, like 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg of the General Strike would make the perfect course reading for any university courses on Canadian labour history, social justice, and union organizing.