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The Many Lives of Malcolm X

Malcolm X was not just a man but an ongoing process. A revolutionary for us all—even children—his journey from rage to clarity shows how radical truth is learned, lived, and handed down.

Kill Zone Realism, Ideology on Mute

Warfare looks and sounds like war, but says nothing about it. Iraqis are reduced to bullet magnets, the mission is never named, and behind the realism lies a vacuum: of politics, of purpose, of meaning.

Front cover of the 'Killing State'

The Machinery of Death

Lain’s forensic account of lethal injection reveals not a broken system, but a killing state operating exactly as intended. Where cruelty is bureaucratised, incompetence is institutionalised, and the violence of capital punishment is hidden beneath the theatre of medical procedure.