Susan Price reviews Adam Hanieh’s new book, Crude Capitalism, which analyses oil’s place in the global capitalist system and the changes in the world oil market.
Culture
A Katoomba showing of The Last Sky, a documentary made by Rihab Charida and Nicholas Hanna, raised $400 for Palestinian refugees. Jessica Steele reports.
Veteran journalist and best-selling author TJ English tells the life story of Augusto Guillermo “Willy” Falcon, who grew his Florida-based gang Los Muchachos (The Boys) into a major international drug-smuggling operation netting profits in the billions. Bill Nevins reviews.
Coral Wynter reviews The Eyes of the Earth, a magical realist novel that follows the life of a Honduran refugee eking out an existence in Mexico City.
Andrew Chuter reviews Henry Grabar’s Paved Paradise, which argues that parking has devastated our cities, wasted valuable space, entrenched car dependency, worsened the climate disaster and raised the cost of housing and most other goods.
While good reporting helps us to be aware of, and understand current events, social change is a long-term endeavour that requires imagination, vision and deconstruction of the status quo. This forum explores the vital role of storytelling.
Mat Ward looks back at November's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Peter Boyle reviews Sarah Glynn and John Clarke’s new book, Climate Change is a Class Issue, which explains the link between capitalism and the climate crisis and provides a short and down-to-earth primer on ecosocialism.
The Forgotten Pacific sheds light on how island communities are weaving indigenous knowledge with modern solutions to adapt, rebuild and protect their homelands from the devastating impacts of climate change, write Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad’s On Cuba will inspire new readers about the achievements of this small country standing up to United States imperialism and providing a beacon of internationalism and solidarity, writes Stephen Langford.
As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza grinds on, threatening to engulf part of Lebanon and provoking Iran, Pip Hinman writes that anti-war activists will find Joseph Daher’s Palestine and Marxism an informative class-based background.
Gary Neville argues that beneath the glamourous sheen of English Premier League football, the game is rotten, and the growing influence of the biggest teams is leaving fans out of pocket and smaller clubs clinging to survival. Alex Salmon reviews.
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