Culture

China Mieville A Spectre Haunting

Bill Nevins reviews China Miéville’s very readable book, A Spectre Haunting, about the concept of alternative world-creation in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto.

Protest albums from February 2023

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

We Are Cuba!

If there is one theme to Helen Yaffe’s book We Are Cuba!, it is survival, writes Ian Ellis-Jones.

Ecosocialist Bookshelf

Ian Angus presents seven new books on how the world works, from cells to imperialism.

Crash Course by H Bruce Franklin

Bill Nevins reviews Crash Course, H Bruce Franklin's memoir of lifelong anti-war resistance, which cuts through the fog of myth and propaganda to make sense of modern history.

British comedian Kate Smurthwaite discusses the power of comedy as a force for good, with Alex Bainbridge.

Ned Kelly, Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner

Michael Adams new book, Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia, exposes how executioners were forced to do the colonial ruling classes' dirty work. Alex Salmon reviews.

New protest albums from January 2023

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

Ecosocialist Bookshelf

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus selects his favourite red and green books from 2022.

British flag

The recycled soap opera of English royals tearing strips off each other continues to preoccupy Australian and British audiences, writes Rupen Savoulian.

ecosocialist bookshelf

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six new books for red-greens and green-reds to start the new year.

Capital in the Anthropocene

Marxist economist Michael Roberts reviews Kohei Saito's forthcoming book.