Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning and techno-fossils.
Books & music
Mat Ward looks back at August's political news and the best new music that related to it.
In the second part of our interview, ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs Federico FuentesΒ speaks toΒ author William JefferiesΒ 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. ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs Federico Fuentes spoke to Jefferies about imperialism today and why the period of globalisation is coming to an end.
Mat Ward looks back at Julyβs 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.Β 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 Israelβs 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 β 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 βcan contribute either to cultural violence or to cultures of peaceβ 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 Australiaβs mining region in his new book. Alex Salmon reviews.
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