Books & music

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

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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.

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.聽

Protest albums from November 2024

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

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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.

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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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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents five new books on capitalism and the climate crisis, restoring forests, waters in revolt and a dangerous billionaire.

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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.

Protest albums from October 2024

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

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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.