Donald Robertson has written a powerful and revealing account of the life of John Maclean, one of the most important but little-known socialist leaders of Scotland and Britain, writes Jim McIlroy.
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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven new books for reds and greens about slavery, anti-science, extraction, disruption, oil power, language and planning.
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Mat Ward looks back at September's political news and the best new music that related to it.
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As far-right extremists ran amok in Naarm/Melbourne, folk musicians Les Thomas and Kavisha Mazzella brought much needed compassion, solidarity and song to a strong audience at the John Curtin Hotel, reports Suzanne James.
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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils.
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Mat Ward looks back at August's political news and the best new music that related to it.
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In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to author William Jefferies about the growing confrontation between the United States and China.
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William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Jefferies about imperialism today and why the period of globalisation is coming to an end.
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Mat Ward looks back at July’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
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New Mexico-based songwriter Eliza Gilkyson's new album Dark Ages is a magnificent, politically charged, angry slow-burn, writes Bill Nevins.
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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.
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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.