Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill’s Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes, is a people’s history of Sydney.

Despite what you may have heard, the new Canadian film The Trotsky is a teen comedy.

Commercial pop music is rarely a conduit for radical left-wing politics.

Counterinsurgency was written for the US and Allied militaries as a guide in how to wipe out their opposition – so why should any anti-war citizens want to read such a book?

Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People destroys one of the most fundamental myths underpinning the Zionist state and consequently calls into question its legitimacy.

The racist policies John Howard pushed as a politician have cost him another election.

With Peoplequake, Fred Pearce makes a valuable contribution to the environmental and political arguments around population growth, laying to rest many modern fears about overpopulation.

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein is an acclaimed documentary about one of America’s most outspoken academics.

Rachel Cook’s Closets are for Clothes is an accessible short history of Queer Australia. 

Fish Tank successfully looks at the developing sexuality of young women and their bodies, their desires and fantasies, and plays that against the desires and fantasies forced upon them.

Sport can provide a form of escape from the drudgery of working-class life, but it cannot escape the logic of capitalist profit making.

When Mark Twain died 100 years ago, President Taft praised him for bringing pleasure to millions. Taft didn’t mention the sharp political differences: Twain was a fierce opponent of the American imperialism Taft championed.

Mass Casualties is a collection of one soldier's journal entries from his time in Iraq.

Precious is one of the most devastating depictions of racism and poverty you can find in recent cinema.