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...

THE ICONIC Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior sailed into Auckland on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Ra...

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...

From: Anderton: His Life and Times by David Grant. (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022). Away from the maelstrom of parliament, where t...

  Irish writer Sally Rooney refuses to sell the translation rights of her new novel to an Israeli publishing house and gets smeared as ...

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's new novel says that solving the climate crisis is incompatible with a defence of our present economic system. K...

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...

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: RADICAL IDEAS FOR THE NEW CENTURY Edited by Sarah Leonard and  Bhaskar Sunkara   Published in 2016, T he Fu...

Laurie Penny's new book is Bitch Doctrine . She says that we that we must ".. have the courage to make impossible demands - to fac...

A Very British Coup is a cultural-historical curiosity. A VERY BRITISH COUP Chris Mullin   A VERY BRITISH COUP was first publishe...

The new left needs a  sense of the  'viscerally thrilling possibilities for change', says journalist Laurie Penny. Penny Red: Note...

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...