Books & music

Protest albums from June 2025

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

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Trade unionist, academic and socialist activist Alexis Vassiley tracks the rise and fall of union power in Western Australia’s mining region in his new book. Alex Salmon reviews.

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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents five recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon and Albert Einstein’s socialism.

Protest albums from May 2025

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

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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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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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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.

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