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Hans Baer reviews Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it.

Political albums from August 2022

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

Sam Wallman

Unionists gathered to launch Sam Wallman's graphic novel, which uses "art as a tool of class struggle", reports Andrew Chuter.

Climate protest

Hans Baer reviews Climate Change as Class War and recommends ecosocialists, ecoanarchists and degrowth proponents alike should grapple with it, as it takes the notion of class struggle seriously.

Joel Jackson and Mandy McElhinney in The Glass Menagerie. Photo provided by Black Swan Theatre

According to director, Clare Watson, The Glass Menagerie “is an indictment on American Capitalism that rings out with alarming urgency to our times”. Barry Healy reviews.

Ric Throssell

Melbourne-based labour historian, Phillip Deery recently launched Karen Throssell's book The Crime of Not Knowing Your Crime, about her father Ric Throssell's lifelong battle with ASIO to clear his name.

War Remnants Museum Vietnam

Aaron Monopoli visits the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and discovers the story of the Vietnam War — as told by a people resisting colonialism and imperialist invasion.

Dangerous Rhythms

Bill Nevins reviews TJ English’s enthralling new book, Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld, the story of how jazz and organised crime evolved side-by-side in the United States.

Ecosocialist Bookshelf August

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus introduces seven new books for people who know that the point is to change the world.

Prey

Delmar Terblanch reviews Prey, an authentic, collaboratively-told story of warriors in the Comanche nation — and a prequel to the 1980s' blockbuster, Predator.

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time is a glowing tribute to a great and suffering writer who exposed the core futility of US culture, writes Barry Healy.

Protest albums from July 2022

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