Books & music

Protest albums from March 2025

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

Protest albums from February 2025

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

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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism.

Protest albums from January 2025

Mat Ward looks back at January鈥檚 political news and the best new music that related to it.

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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven new books on capitalist ecology myths, petroleum industry lies, forests, cities, incipient fascism, agribusiness and disease.

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Andrew Chuter reviews Cameron Murray鈥檚 highly accessible and much-needed book about the persistent myths that prevent rational discussion and action to address the housing crisis in Australia.

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Znetwork.org鈥檚 Alexandria Shaner sat down with activist-author Tamara Pearson to discuss her new novel, The Eyes of the Earth, and how storytelling as resistance can unravel discourse, confront reality and explore possibilities.

We鈥檙e scrolling more and reading less, but when it comes to standing up to fossil fuel companies, the arms industry, empire and systemic injustice, fiction and non-fiction books can provide clarity and transformative ideas, argues Tamara Pearson.

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Ben Radford reviews the memoir of Waraoni climate activist Nemonte Nenquimo, who defends the Amazon and the indigenous peoples of eastern Ecuador against the power of big oil.

Susan Price reviews Adam Hanieh鈥檚 new book,聽Crude Capitalism, which analyses oil鈥檚 place in the global capitalist system and the changes in the world oil market.聽

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Veteran journalist and best-selling author TJ English tells the life story of Augusto Guillermo 鈥淲illy鈥 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聽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.聽