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Review | Andor, Season 2

Rebellion against an empire complicit in genocide – in Star Wars, now a Disney brand. On the complexities of Andor.

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Review | Louis Theroux’s Settlers

A review of Louis Theroux’s The Settlers

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Review | The Penguin Lessons

A review of Steve Coogan’s new film which is set in the context of 1970s Argentina under the repression of the military junta

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Oliver! Reviewing The Situation

A look back at the communist legacy of Lionel Bart and Oliver!

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Review | All In: a revolutionary theory to stop climate collapse

A review of ‘All In’ which argues for a revolutionary strategy as global temperatures continue to rise.

cover of Mother State by Helen Charman, with painting by artist Paula Modersohn-Beker

Review | Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood

How does the state shape who gets to mother, who suffers, and who survives?

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Review | Mickey 17

Boon Jong-Ho’s new film Mickey 17 uses science fiction to shine a light on our world

Review | Monstrous Anger of the Guns

A new work unpacks the global arms industry and how to fight it.

Review | Hard Graft

Kika Hendry reviews the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition Hard Graft, which explores the relationship between work and health tracing through histories of exploitation, oppression and resistance.

Review | Disaster Nationalism

Richard Seymour’s recent book Disaster Nationalism can help us understand what’s happening as Trump’s second term accelerates the growth of the far right internationally.

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Review | Crude Capitalism

What has oil got to do with the history of the global capitalist economy? A review of Adam Hanieh’s book on the topic.

Review | Forest of Noise

A review of a new collection of poetry by Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha.

Review | One hundred years of solitude

A review of the new film version of Gabriel García Márquez’s wonderful novel ‘One hundred years of solitude’, first published in 1967

Patrice Lumumba signs the document granting independence to the Congo next to Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens

Review | Soundtrack to a coup d’etat

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat uses jazz and contemporary voices to expose how Belgium and the US undermined the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo

Review | Burnout

Samuel Kelly reviews Hannah Proctor’s Burnout, a timely exploration of the emotional toll of political struggle, offering ways to navigate despair and sustain hope in our movements. 

2024 cultural highlights: music

rs21 members review their music highlights of the year.

2024 cultural highlights

rs21 members review their cultural highlights of the year.

Review | Mixing Pop and Politics

A review of Mixing Pop and Politics by Toby Manning, a Marxist history of popular music that analyses the relationship between society’s economic base and its cultural superstructure.

Review | Coming to terms with China

Weighing up two new books on contemporary China.

Review | Become Ungovernable

HLT Quan’s manifesto for ungovernability contributes to strategies for resisting state violence.

Review | Overshoot: How the world surrendered to climate breakdown

Malm and Carton’s revolutionary call to climate action

Review | She Who Struggles

Exploring the role of women in twentieth-century revolutionary and national-liberation movements.

Review | Raising the Red Flag

The lead up to the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1921, and lessons for today

Ghost Dance Against the Silence of Money

A review of Dead Cities & Other Tales by Mike Davis

Review | Reasons to Rebel

A review of Sheila Rowbotham’s latest book which recounts her experiences as a socialist feminist activist in the 1980s.

Review | Disability Praxis

Disability Praxis covers some of today’s key debates on disability justice in Britain and the US. rs21 member Shiraz Hussain reviews.

Review | Who’s Afraid of Gender?

Around the world, the right are mobilising around “gender”. Colin Wilson reviews Judith Butler’s new intervention.

Review | What Was Neoliberalism?

What can we learn about neoliberalism from Neil Davidson’s new book? Charlie Post reviews ‘What Was Neoliberalism’

Review | The Vote

Danny Bee reviews Paul Foot’s ‘The Vote’ – how it was won and how it’s undermined.

Debate on settler colonialism: Part 4

Steve Leigh contributes with a review of Englert’s book.