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From Earth鈥檚 history to global heating, water crises and socialist strategy 鈥 Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books for radical readers.

Clifton D'Rozario in 2024

Clifton D鈥橰ozario, a leading member of the Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (Liberation) (CPIML) recently spoke to 91自拍论坛's Isaac Nellist about the parallels between Zionism and the ideology of Hindu supremacy.

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Alex Salmon reviews James Boyce's 2020 work, which traces the Indigenous people of the wetland areas of eastern England known as the Fens, who fought to preserve their lands, culture and community in the face of attempts to displace them by enclosure.

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Peter Boyle reviews David Marr's Killing for Country: A Family History, a chronicle of his forebears who were deployed from 1849 to the 1920s to carry out systematic massacres of First Nations peoples in the frontier wars in Queensland and the Northern Territory.

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Malik Miah argues that racism lives on in California, echoing its history as a 'free state' during slavery.

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The German Democratic Republic (GDR) is often painted as a 鈥渨alled-in, Russian-controlled Stasi land鈥. However British-German Historian Katja Hoyer's 2023 book Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 presents a more interesting and contradictory picture of a state where socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning and barbed wire co-existed, writes Alex Salmon.

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Pro-Palestinian solidarity activists in Australia have long been spreading information about the tragedy of the Palestinian people and the legitimacy of their revolution to Australian society, writes Khaled Ghannam. One example is the Arabic language publication Sawt Falastine (Voice of Palestine), first published in 1974.

Ecosocialist Bookshelf

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight recent books for people who want to change the world.

Maggie K, from the Tzedek Collective, addressed a solidarity rally at the University of Sydney encampment for Palestine on May 3.

Ecosocialist Bookshelf

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven important new books on slavery, capitalism, rebellion and ecological revolution.

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Alex Salmon reviews Janey Stone and Donny Gluckstein鈥檚 new book, The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, resistance and firebrands, which uncovers the hidden history of Jewish radicalism and solidarity between Jewish and non-Jewish communities.

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Four years on from the outbreak of COVID-19, Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus introduces new reads for reds and greens, including four important new books on capitalism and the pandemic.