If you want a conclusion to Lenin's question ‘What is to be done?’, you may be disappointed by Althusser’s book. Written in 1978 but ultimately unfinished, the book focusses on the emergent Eurocommunism and their focus on civil society rather than the state but Althusser's critique remains largely moralistic.

What is to be done?
Louis Althusser, trans. by G. M. Goshgarian
Polity, 2020
9781509538614

As a light piece of polemical writing, How to Blow Up a Pipeline makes its case for militancy well. However, it points to another book that needs to be written - a book that we should write with our actions as much as our words, where we need to deepen our strategic understanding and our militant tactics.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm
Verso, 2021
978183976025

Spade provides a useful introduction to mutual aid work, but a more detailed book based on the experiences of mutual aiders would have been even more valuable. Mutual aid is a start but ultimately more enduring revolutionary organisations are going to be necessary to secure a decent future for all.

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade
Verso, 2020
9781839762123

‘I guess those journalists and politicians such as Anna Soubry MP from the centre-right Independent Group would be pleased to know that even after apocalypse the mail is still being delivered’, Derek Wall writes.