Books
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Books: AI Is a Total Grift
Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025
Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils. Continue reading
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Book event: Copaganda
“Copaganda” is a special kind of propaganda employed by police and news media that stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it. Continue reading
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Brilliant! Joe Sacco’s ‘War on Gaza’
Friday, 16 May 2025 — The Comics Journal ‘I’m doing the work I need to do to live with myself’: Joe Sacco on democracy, genocide, and drawing the truth Zach Rabiroff | May 7, 2025 “Is it genocide, or is it self-defense? Let’s make everyone happy and say it’s both. In that case we’ll need Continue reading
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At the Lost and Found
11 April 2025 — Edward Curtin Edward Curtin The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found (Clarity Press). My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right. I think she liked but feared this Continue reading
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Covid vaccine injured – Silent no More
Was taking the Covid vaccine Worth a Shot? A new book by Caroline Pover, written on behalf of Brianne Dressen who lives in the USA, chronicles the horrific story of how she was severely injured by the Covid vaccine after enrolling on the AstraZeneca trial in November 2020. Continue reading
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Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged An Apartheid State From River to Sea By Thomas Suárez
Much has been written in the alternative press over the past year about the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians and its other war crimes in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, etc. This has often been viewed within the historical context of the self-declared Zionist Israeli state’s founding in 1948 up to the present day. But far less… Continue reading
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Mary and her monster
Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797. Mary had the idea for Frankenstein—or the Modern Prometheus as it was known at the time—when she was 18, and she finished writing it when she was 19. This teenager, who was excluded from the kind of education her male peers enjoyed, created not one but two… Continue reading
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Refaat’s book “If I Must Die” has surged to top 100 worldwide — let’s push it higher
The push to make Refaat Alareer’s posthumous collection of poetry and prose a global bestseller is now in full swing. Based on the current rankings, it looks like thousands of you pre-ordered the book “If I Must Die” in the past few days. It has soared into the top 100 worldwide — #77 as I… Continue reading
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New reading on Palestine
Friday, 25 October 2024 — Verso Books Our Autumn publishing includes new editions of Ilan Pappe’s Ten Myths About Israel and Eyal Weizman’s Hollow Land, a paperback edition of The Palestine Laboratory, new work from Gideon Levy and Adam Raz, and The Verso Palestine Pamphlets. Free Palestine: see all our reading here Continue reading
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The Puppet Masters: How MI6 regularly mastermind state crises
David Burke’s book is relevant to all those interested in how MI6 have instigated terrorism in arenas as diverse as Russia, Armenia, Iraq and Syria. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books Sale
Thursday, 29 August 2024 — Housmans Books As with all our booksales we try to keep prices as low as possible with nothing over £5. Lots of as-new copies of books, academic and trade, across a range of related topics. Approximately 400 books available on a first come first served basis. The sale will last Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2023
Wednesday, 8 February 2023 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Reading matter that really matters. Seven new books on how the world works, from cells to imperialism Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that Continue reading
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Operation Z: The Hidden Truth about the War in Ukraine
We are so very pleased to bring our a readers a sample from Jacques Baud’s book on the conflict in the Ukraine, which has just been translated into English. It is called Operation Z (which is the code-name of the Special Military Operation launched by Russia on February 24, 2022). We have been waiting eagerly for this… Continue reading
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“If there is to be a livable future, it will be a future offline”
Claims of the system’s power to connect far-flung individuals and enrich one’s social life are risible. In the West, at least, the Internet’s primary effect has been to dissipate social energies into simulated flickers of friendship, comradery, or antagonism that more often than not ripple into nothingness before any deeper human experience can take root,… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf: The Best of 2022
Saturday, 31 December 2023 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Ian Angus selects his favorite red and green books from the past year Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with Continue reading
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Books of the year
Every year at this time, I look back at any books that I have reviewed. I’ll start with Bradford DeLong’s book, Slouching towards Utopia, because this was considered the best economic history book of the year. Continue reading
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Degrowth and the end of capitalism
Book review: A powerful polemic against capitalism’s planetary destruction, and an engaging look at the degrowth movement Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2022
Saturday, 10 December 2022 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Six important new books on fungi and racism and building socialism and wheat and more Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2022
Wednesday, 9 November 2022 — Climate & Capitalism Six new books and six recent essays: important reading for reds and greens Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even Continue reading
The New Dark Age 