Alex Salmon reviews Thomas Piketty's new book, which argues for a world beyond capitalism.
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A landmark appeal against a 2019 ban imposed on a leading Kurdish publisher and music distributor failed in the German Federal Administrative Court on January 26, reports Kerry Smith.
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Anand Gopal's No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes, published seven years before the Taliban took control of Kabul for a second time in 2021, helps explain their victory, writes Chris Slee.
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Alex Miller reviews a new booklet from the Scottish Socialist Party that makes the case for a socialist green new deal.
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Silent Earth describes the crisis of declining insect populations, but Ben Courtice writes that it falls short on the solutions required to turn this around.
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Mat Ward looks back at January's political news and the best new music that related to it.
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The average Australian has been enveloped by the inevitability of the US alliance as if it were a natural result of our history and “shared” values, writes Roger Davies.
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Andrew Chuter reviews two books by Peter Norton that trace the rise and rise of the private car.
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Alex Salmon reviews a new book by historian and author Graham Seal that documents how the British government shipped more than 376,000 men, women and children across the oceans to provide slave labour in its colonies.
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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven new books for red-greens and green-reds to start the new year.
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Mary Merkenich reviews Maree Roberts’ entertaining novel about Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s sister Olga Kameneva.
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Tracy Sorensen reviews the latest work by award-winning author Stephen Gapps, which recounts the furious and bloody war that began with the occupation of Wiradyuri lands.