Culture

Ecosocialist Bookshelf

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents new books on Cuba’s degrowth, viruses, Bluefin tuna, small farm solutions, capitalism, slavery and poverty.

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As Israel enacts a genocidal war on Gaza, the words of  Palestinian-American poet and physician Fady Joudah echo in my mind, writes Markela Panegyres.

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There are big bucks in outsourcing society’s problems to the individual. writes Tamara Pearson.

Disposables

Isaac Nellist reviews a new ABC production about the struggle of refugees living on temporary visas, climate change and the importance of community.

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson book cover

Mat Ward slogged his way through Walter Isaacson's new 600-page biography of Elon Musk, so you don't have to.
 

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Under the Shadow is a forthcoming podcast series hosted by journalist and producer Michael Fox, which delves into the history of rebellions and interventions by the United States in Latin America. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Fox about the upcoming first season.

Antony Loewenstein discusses his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world.

Protest albums from September 2023

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

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Activist and author Micheal Euade has traced the history of the struggle for Catalonian nationhood and its intersection with class struggle from the medieval period to the present in his 2022 book, A People’s History of Catalonia. Alex Salmon reviews.

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Bill Nevins reviews Fintan O’Toole's 2022 book, We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland.

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Water, farming, nuclear tests, copper mining, new biology, and sugar. Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six books to help understand and change the world.

Dick Gaughan

Bill Nevins’ interviewed the great Scottish socialist activist-bard Dick Gaughan back in 1996, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he played a sold-out concert.