Culture

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Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to the occupied West Bank in Palestine and wrote an account of his visit for Green Left. This is the 5th and final part.

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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.

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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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Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to the occupied West Bank in Palestine and wrote an account of his visit.

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Given that renewable energy has become the cheapest energy source in recent years, it should be supplanting fossil fuels. But, as Brett Christopher points out in The Price is Wrong, contemporary neoliberal capitalism does not operate on such logic. Neville Spencer reviews Christopher’s book.

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The Power of Choice is a raw and beautiful eulogy and an irrefutable testimonial to the relief and comfort VAD gives the dying, writes Suzanne James.

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Sydney-based Palestinian activist Khaled Ghannam recently travelled to the occupied West Bank in Palestine and wrote an account of his visit for Green Left. This is part three.

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Ana Parampil’s 2024 book, Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire, documents how successive United States political leaders worked to undermine Venezuelan sovereignty. Coral Wynter reviews.

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PEN America reported that authoritarian regimes around the world jailed more journalists and writers last year than ever before, writes Julia Conley.

Protest albums from April 2025

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

When Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained by the Turkish state, the country was rocked by its largest protests in a decade, which, despite a violent crackdown, have only grown more creative and resilient, writes Ela Buruk.

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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents five new books for ecosocialists.