Reviews

In this year’s State of the Union address, Donald Trump stated that “America will never be a socialist country.” More recently, he declared that he will be running in 2020 to fight a “socialist...

Joker is an engaging film. It won the top award at the Venice Film Festival, but has also faced a wave of scorn from film critics; some of whom describe it as “irresponsible” and...

From the outset, Peter Mares’ book ‘No Place Like Home’ seeks to remind us that the primary function of a house is to provide the fundamental human need of shelter. He questions when it...

Bruce Pascoe's 2014 book 'Dark Emu, Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?' was republished in 2018 as 'Dark Emu' with some extra material. Australians are systematically miseducated about Aboriginal history. Pascoe sets out to give people...

Sally McManus’ essay ‘On Fairness’ is set against the background of her first ever interview as Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. In that now famous 7.30 clip, she responded to a...

On the morning of the last Sunday in July, Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was released from an Israeli prison, where she had been for eight months since her arrest on 19 December 2017. On 15...

Director Raoul Peck takes us on a voyage through the life of 'The Young Karl Marx'. At first a follower of the idealist philosopher Hegel, he becomes fed up with just interpreting the world...

The global capitalist crisis is intensifying. Wars are raging, immigrant children are being torn from their parent’s arms and put in cages, while billions around the world are going without food and shelter. On...