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.
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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
Andrew Chuter reviews Henry Grabar鈥檚 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.
Peter Boyle reviews Sarah Glynn and John Clarke鈥檚 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.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 Palestine and Marxism an informative class-based background.
Vandana Shiva and her feminist colleague Maria Mies issued the Leipzig Appeal in 1996 to say, 鈥淣o to GMOs and No to Patents on Seed鈥. The call echoes in Shiva鈥檚 new book, writes Niko Leka.
Warwick Fry鈥檚 account of El Salvador鈥檚 history, from colonialism to its post-Civil War period, is a tremendous addition to understanding this beautiful country known as the Little Toe of Central America, writes Andrew Jones.
Dmitry Pozhidaev reviews Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century Through the Prism of Value, by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts, which aims to explain 21st-century capitalism through Karl Marx鈥檚 value theory.
Israel has faced little condemnation from Western political elites and mainstream media for its genocidal war on the Palestinians because they uncritically accept the Zionist myths used to justify Israel鈥檚 ongoing colonisation and genocide. Ben Radford reviews Ilan Pappe's 10 Myths About Israel.
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens reflects contemporary Australia's migrant experience聽鈥 the sadness, tragedy, but also solidarity, compassion and humanity, writes Coral Wynter.
It's often said that housing is a human right. Kevin Bell's new book takes some first steps towards making it a reality in the Australian context, writes Andrew Chuter.
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