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Protest albums from March 2025

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

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Just three weeks since No Other Land won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Academy Awards, the film’s Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten, kidnapped and tortured by Israeli settlers and the Israeli Defense Forces. But the deafening silence from the Academy has drawn condemnation, reports Isaac Nellist.

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Isaac Nellist reviews Mickey 17, the latest film from Oscar award winning director Bong Joon Ho, which skewers the despair and wackiness of capitalism.
 

Protest albums from February 2025

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

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Hysteria surrounds the dropping of Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino from the 2026 Venice Biennale, argues Binoy Kampmark.

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Multimedia journalist and producer Michael Fox is back with a new podcast series, Stories of Resistance, which is packed with glimpses of inspiration in these dark times, reports Federico Fuentes.

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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism.

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Hundred heads of state and gurus of the digital industries, such as Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are gathering in Paris to promote the benefits of Artificial Intelligence, prompting Éric Sadin to organise a counter summit. He explains why.

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Palestinians Don’t Need Sidewalks takes us into the streets, dwellings, refugee camps, communities and lives of Palestinians who have suffered under Israeli occupation and gives voice to the global solidarity movement against Israel's genocide. Jepke Goudsmit reviews.

Protest albums from January 2025

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

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Isaac Nellist reviews a documentary about the historic victory of Amazon workers who formed a union at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York City, which inspired workers around the world.

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Mariota Spens reviews Wicked, a technicolour fairytale and allegory for United States politics, which shows us the mechanics of patriarchal capitalism.