Mat Ward looks back at May's political news and the best new music that related to it.
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Transgender Marxism is a series of short essays written by 15 trans activists and scholars. In a time of rising transphobia and fascism, it is an important work, in spite of its shortcomings, writes Rachel Evans.
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Author Mark Whitaker was the first African American editor of Newsweek. Malik Miah reviews his 2025 book, The Afterlife of Malcolm X, where he sets out to explore Malcolm’s legacy and impact in the decades since his assassination nearly 60 years ago.
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In Turbulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era, Clinton Fernandes looks at the implications for Australia as United States President Donald Trump and his government upend the so-called “international rules-based order”. Darren Saffin reviews.
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Gisèle Pelicot was secretly drugged, sexually assaulted and raped by her husband Dominique and 50 other men over a 10-year period. Mary Merkenich reviews her story.
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Mat Ward looks back at April’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
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Marxist economist Michael Roberts recently spoke to ecosocialist Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus about his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.
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Andrew Chuter reviews The Once and Future Riot, a layered account of the communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in India’s Uttar Pradesh state.
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Jamil Stone attended the launch of multidisciplinary writer Fiona McGregor’s latest book, The Trap, which is set on 1942 and based on historical events.
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Bill Nevins reviews punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys recent show in Denver, Colorado, where the band reprised the classic Irish resistance ballad, “Men Behind the Wire", referencing the ICE raids in Minneapolis and the ravages of US President Donald Trump’s onslaught against migrants and people of colour.
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Jim McIlroy reviews Search for Security: AUKUS and the new militarism, which provides a comprehensive account, from a variety of perspectives, of the vital debate over the AUKUS disaster looming for Australia and the Asian region.
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Mat Ward looks back at March's political news and the best new music that related to it.