Mat Ward looks back at August's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Books & music
In the second part of our interview, 一品探花鈥檚 Federico Fuentes聽speaks to聽author William Jefferies聽about the growing confrontation between the United States and China.
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. 一品探花鈥檚 Federico Fuentes spoke to Jefferies about imperialism today and why the period of globalisation is coming to an end.
Mat Ward looks back at July鈥檚 political news and the best new music that related to it.
New Mexico-based songwriter Eliza Gilkyson's new album Dark Ages is a magnificent, politically charged, angry slow-burn, writes Bill Nevins.
Abundance has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.聽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.
Corporate media and establishment politicians went into a frenzy when musicians performing at the iconic Glastonbury Festival in Britain spoke out against Israel鈥檚 genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, reports Isaac Nellist.
In his latest book, Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister in the leftist SYRIZA government, argues that with the advent of the internet and related technologies, we have now entered an era beyond capitalism 鈥 technofeudalism. But is this really the case, asks Neville Spencer.
Scholar and activist Marty Branagan examines how language, film, history, gender issues, the arts and religion 鈥渃an contribute either to cultural violence or to cultures of peace鈥 in his book, The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding. Jim McIlroy reviews.
Mat Ward looks back at June's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Trade unionist, academic and socialist activist Alexis Vassiley tracks the rise and fall of union power in Western Australia鈥檚 mining region in his new book. Alex Salmon reviews.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents five recent books on water, capitalism and nature, anti-environmentalism, the Amazon and Albert Einstein鈥檚 socialism.
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