Culture

The Party for the People and for Palestine, organised by Green Left, filled the Gumbramorra Hall at Addison Road Community Centre and raised much-needed funds, reports Jim McIlroy.

Direct action organiser and activist Lilli Barto delivered this poem to a protest, organised by the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition, outside the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition.

Mat Ward looks back at October's political news and the best new music that related to it.

Poet, musician and cultural advocate Manuel González has worked at the intersections of poetry, education and social change, in detention centres, classrooms and community spaces throughout New Mexico, writes Bill Nevins.

The failure of UEFA and FIFA to sanction Israel’s football teams amounts to complicity in genocide, argues Leo Earle.

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents four new books examining the poisoning of the biosphere.

In recent months, a wave of artists throughout the entertainment industry has begun speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, reports William Johnson.

Bolivia suffered its worst-ever bushfire season last year. Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide, a new short documentary, focuses on the worst-affected Santa Cruz department, the heart of Bolivia’s agro-industrial frontier. Ben Radford reviews the film.

Donald Robertson has written a powerful and revealing account of the life of John Maclean, one of the most important but little-known socialist leaders of Scotland and Britain, writes Jim McIlroy.

The unleashing of Robodebt by Scott Morrison’s Coalition government is one of the biggest scandals in Australian political history, writes Suzanne James.