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No one is better qualified than Peter Neil Carroll to write a book of memorial poems about the valiant men and women who volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.

A radical new history of the ancient world that challenges modern chauvinism.

Set against the tempestuous politics of post-colonial Jamaica, through flashbacks, "One Love" portrays the rise of the beloved Raggae legend Marley and his legendary band, The Wailers.

Today’s mega-milk-industry stems from a lack of scientific perspective that turned milk into a supposed daily necessity for children and, to a lesser extent, adults.

Avatar remains one of the most unapologetically antifascist shows ever made. It’s not even generically pacifist — it frequently depicts acts of violent resistance as necessary.

In this presidential election year, poet Carol Kanter issues an elegant warning of a certain candidate “assuming, accruing power.”

Over a period of the five years, beginning in 2014, the City of Detroit cut of water services for over a quarter million residents. This book, writes reviewer Compton, is a "dense, deeply researched history of Detroit’s water disasters."

The film is a critique of the factory farm industry’s deceptive marketing to convince the public that animals are treated better than they are; a heavy message packaged in an entertaining children’s movie, and a radical departure from the usual.

Largely set in occupied France during World War II, the new Apple TV+ series The New Look zeroes in on Christian Dior’s rivalry with Coco Chanel — but it falls flat when it tries to handle Chanel’s infamous Nazi sympathies.

Mississippi poet Philip Kolin traces the history of enslavement since 1619, this extract from his new book White Terror, Black Trauma (Third World Press).