Culture

Mei-Ing Cheok reviews Kaouther Ben Hania’s award-winning docudrama, The Voice of Hind Rajab, which confronts us with the unbearable final hours of five-year-old Hind Rajab, one of the countless child victims of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Ben Radford reviews Oscar Olivera’s new book on the 1999–2000 Water Wars in Bolivia, which is remembered as an emblematic grassroots struggle that successfully defeated neoliberal attempts to privatise control of Cochabamba’s water.

Green Left has launched a new weekly podcast, On the Streets, to provide listeners with protest news and information, including upcoming rallies and short reports on recent actions. Kerry Smith reports.

At a time when political views are often pieced together by social media content, cultural meeting points are valuable spaces that must be protected from censorship, writes Mariota S.

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

The relationship between national oppression and white supremacy is a key to how the billionaire class dominates the working class in the United States, writes Malik Miah.

Public outcry over the exclusion of high-profile Australian-Palestinian author and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from the Adelaide Writers’ Week culminated in the event being cancelled. Isabella Montana reports.

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents a bumper crop of books for reds and greens to check out over the holiday break.

Mary Merkenich takes a critical look at journalist Virginia Haussegger’s new book, which reflects on the 1970’s women’s liberation movement and the struggle today.

Green Left’s Susan Price spoke with Ibrahim Izzeldeen, from the Free Sudan Gazette, about this new media project and how it is centring Sudanese voices and ensuring that the struggle of the Sudanese people for their country’s future is visible in the international media landscape.

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