Of all the radical groups to emerge in the United States in the 1960s, one of the most interesting was the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which began organising in the car industry in Detroit, Michigan. Craig Brittain reviews a recent book tracing the struggles and challenges of these revolutionary workers.
After World War I, soldiers returned to an Australia deeply divided by class, religion and social and political issues. Alex Salmon reviews a new book uncovering more of the hidden history of social upheaval.
The attempt to silence United States rapper Macklemore has galvanised Palestinian and non-Palestinian artists and their supporters for a free Palestine and unmasked the capitalists behind the campaign to silence artists, writes Markela Panegyres.
Mat Ward looks back at September's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Chris Slee reviews Vannessa Hearman’s new book, The Good Sea: The Journey of the ‘Tasi Diak’ and the Politics of Refugee Protection in Australia, which tracks Australia’s treatment of refugees and the development of the solidarity movement with Timor-Leste.
A year after it was viciously attacked, Camp Sovereignty in Naarm/Melbourne was filled with light, love and music, as it hosted Rock Against Racism, celebrating community and resilience, reports Candice Alisha.
Mat Ward looks back at August's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Suzanne James caught up with Melbourne singer-songwriter Les Thomas, who is back in Australia after a highly successful British tour that took his music from London clubs and Oxford’s Blackwell’s bookshop to the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Dorset.
While mass rallies and marches are often the go-to approach for activists, there has always been scope for creative activity to play a part in shaping how wider society thinks about an issue, writes Cas Smith.
Here Where We Live is Our Country is a long-awaited contribution to the sparse field of knowledge about the Jewish Labor Bund, a group that played a key role in late 19th and early 20th century Marxist history. Cas Smith reviews.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents new books on denial, green colonialism, wildfires, energy, the far right, global crises and our ties to nature.
Mat Ward looks back at July’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
