Mat Ward looks back at July's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Books & music
New Mexico-based songwriter Eliza Gilkyson's new album Dark Ages is a magnificent, politically charged, angry slow-burn, writes Bill Nevins.
Abundance has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians. But the book directs its sights towards planning regulations as the obstacle to abundance, not to the real blockages imposed by vested interests, argues Michael Roberts.
Corporate media and establishment politicians went into a frenzy when musicians performing at the iconic Glastonbury Festival in Britain spoke out against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, reports Isaac Nellist.
In his latest book, Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister in the leftist SYRIZA government, argues that with the advent of the internet and related technologies, we have now entered an era beyond capitalism — technofeudalism. But is this really the case, asks Neville Spencer.
Scholar and activist Marty Branagan examines how language, film, history, gender issues, the arts and religion “can contribute either to cultural violence or to cultures of peace” in his book, The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding. Jim McIlroy reviews.
Mat Ward looks back at June's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Trade unionist, academic and socialist activist Alexis Vassiley tracks the rise and fall of union power in Western Australia’s mining region in his new book. Alex Salmon reviews.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents five recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon and Albert Einstein’s socialism.
Mat Ward looks back at May's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents new books on the German peasants’ war, air, Amazonian struggles, climate history, class rule and Karl Marx’s later views on oppression and revolution.
Maree F Roberts reviews Dear Unknown Friend, which brings to life the letters exchanged by American and Soviet women during World War II and the first half of the 20th century.
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