The strength of Dirty Work is that it pulls back the curtain to reveal those who prefer to operate in the shadows. And now they're sc...
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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
EYES OF FIRE: THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING OF THE RAINBOW WARRIOR
THE ICONIC Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior sailed into Auckland on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Ra...
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE HARMONISED
At nearly 500 pages, Mixing Pop and Politics is a big read, writes Vicky Wilson, but it's a reminder that music has always been politi...
DAYS GONE BY...
From: Anderton: His Life and Times by David Grant. (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022). Away from the maelstrom of parliament, where t...
SALLY ROONEY : IN DEFENCE OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS
Irish writer Sally Rooney refuses to sell the translation rights of her new novel to an Israeli publishing house and gets smeared as ...
SALLY ROONEY : MARXIST MILLENNIAL
Economic class and the precariousness in which young people are forced to live their lives under late capitalism is a central concern of ...
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON : SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE
Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel says that solving the climate crisis is incompatible with a defence of our present economic system. K...
WORK WON'T LOVE YOU BACK
Under late capitalism work has become casualised and real wages have declined. Yet we are still told work provides us with self-esteem and p...
THE END OF THE UNDER
Tulia Thompson's essay ' In the Under: Being Poor and Dreaming the End of Capitalism' is a raw and honest account of the a...
THE FUTURE WE WANT
THE FUTURE WE WANT: RADICAL IDEAS FOR THE NEW CENTURY Edited by Sarah Leonard and Bhaskar Sunkara Published in 2016, T he Fu...
RED PENNY
Laurie Penny's new book is Bitch Doctrine . She says that we that we must ".. have the courage to make impossible demands - to fac...
FAILED AMBITIONS
A Very British Coup is a cultural-historical curiosity. A VERY BRITISH COUP Chris Mullin A VERY BRITISH COUP was first publishe...
WELL RED
The new left needs a sense of the 'viscerally thrilling possibilities for change', says journalist Laurie Penny. Penny Red: Note...
THE IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW
I am intending to write a post on the CTU's continued allegiance to the dismal Labour Party but that will have to wait for another day a...
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