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Book review: The Inside Out of Flies by Erica McAlister
When I was aged 10 or so, I was fascinated by lungfish. This pioneering group that built an evolutionary bridge between sea and land life, survived the extinction of the…
Girls to the front: Feminist City by Leslie Kern
Cities have historically been painted by urban planners and governments as places of opportunity and excitement, where somebody can reshape the trajectory of their life. Positive attributes of cities include…
Lighting a spark: How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
How to Blow up A Pipeline starts with what will be a familiar image for many. It's the yearly climate negotiations, activists have streamed towards the conference space, pleading with…
A Bright Future: Futures of Socialism by Grace Blakeley
Image credit: Jurriaan Persyn - Creative Commons In just under a year, progressive movements across the Anglosphere have received some crushing defeats. First came electoral crises, with the wipe-out result…
Taking action: Climate Strike by Derek Wall
Welcome to the Rebellion. Image credit via Alexander Savin, Creative Commons. Environmentalism is messy. For those campaigning around climate change, this will be obvious. Whether writing petitions or getting arrested,…
A defender’s death: Who Killed Berta Cáceres? by Nina Lakhani
Image credits via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons In March 2016 Berta Cáceres was murdered, shot multiple times in her own bedroom by a squad of armed hitmen. The Honduran Indigenous…
The Resource Question: Planetary Mine by Martín Arboleda
Kalgoorlie Open Cast Mine. Image credit via Stephen Codrington, Creative Commons. An early memory of mine is going on an underground tour of the National Coal Mining Museum in primary…
Capitalism, Climate and Computing: Capital is Dead by McKenzie Wark
Image credit via Gerd Leonhard, Creative Commons There is something quite refreshing about heretical writing. It feels like a pressure washer to the brain. Most of the time, individuals find…
Red Relations: Comrade by Jodi Dean – book review
A protest as part of the Peoples Assemble against Austerity. Image credit via Peter Damian, Creative Commons. Comrade. The ‘c’ word. It seems such an anachronistic phrase. The term is…
Economics as if the planet mattered: Ann Pettifor’s The Case for the Green New Deal
Image credit via TEDxUU, Creative Commons Having just finished Naomi Klein’s On Fire, I was left feeling slightly unsatisfied and wanted a more robust book on the Green New Deal.…