Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils.
Culture
Mat Ward looks back at August's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Markela Panegyres speaks to artist Elaheh Mahdavi about her and her brother Arman’s recent exhibition, The Seasick, in Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, which explores the plight of Iranian refugees who arrived in Australia by boat, and those they left behind.
As we witness the genocide in Gaza, and a world descending deeper into fascism and war, creative protest and coalition-building helps build a strong and sustainable peace movement, writes Alexander Brown.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is a powerful account of Israel’s systematic targeting of medical staff as part of its genocidal war against Palestinian people in Gaza, writes Jim McIlroy.
Whatever the limitations of Bob Geldof’s monetaristic approach to famine relief in Ethiopia, thousands of lives were likely saved as a result. Bringing about justice in Palestine will, however, require far more than charity, writes Ben Brooker.
Mat Ward looks back at July’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
Forty years after agents from France’s secret service bombed the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior as it was moored in Auckland Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand, award‑winning journalist David Robie has released a fully updated anniversary edition of his book Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, writes Ben Radford.
New Mexico-based songwriter Eliza Gilkyson's new album Dark Ages is a magnificent, politically charged, angry slow-burn, writes Bill Nevins.
Niko Leka reviews Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein’s two-part video series, The Palestine Laboratory, which shows how Israel exports weapons and surveillance technology to the world.
Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Argentine Marxist Esteban Mercatante about his new book, Fiery red: Communist reflections on the ecological crisis.
Prohibited from broadcasting in the United States, the Voice of America always promoted the US as a virtuous brand of democratic good living in the face of tyrants — usually the political left. Binoy Kampmark reports on its silencing.
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