EDITORIAL
ARUN KAPIL
THE VOLTAGE OF FRESH: WHY FRUIT NEEDS FIRE
PHIL HALL PAUL HALAS GORDON LIDL
MEETING HEIKO KHOO
NORMAN B. SCHWARTZ
16. Little Tramp / Rich Man
PAUL HALAS WITH BING SHI
COLOUR, MOVEMENT AND BALLET
MOUNTAIN WEDDING
SUDEEP SEN
YOGESH PATEL
A SPINNING COIN OF DHŪRTĀKHYĀNA
THE RACIAL RESENTMENT OF THE WHITE CALIBAN
DUSTIN PICKERING
ECOLOGICAL DESTRICTION IS CLASS WAR
GORDON LIDL
7. NEVER AGAIN
DAVID YIP
ADEL DARWISH
THE RAMELEH TRAM CARRIES THE LIFE BLOOD OF ALEXANDRIA
POETRY
SHORT STORIES
BOOK EXTRACTS
TRAVEL WRITING
Two Short Stories by Beatriz Escalante
Oscar de la Borbolla: Notes on Language
Beena Kamlani: Excerpt from The English Problem
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Ajay Jain: Extracts from ‘Charlie’s Boys’
Ananya Vajpeyi: From Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities
S B EASWARAN: Five Poems
Priscilla Gac-Artigas: Gustavo Gac-Artigas in Translation
In Translation: TWO of Ewa Lipska’s FURTEEN TALES
Geo Milev: Prose Poems Translated by Tom Phillips
New Malden Writers in March
Patrick McManus, John Grant, Karl Rutlidge, Tom Frank & Phil Hall
FILM & POLITICS
GEOPOLITICS
SOCIAL COMMENTRY
TECHNOLOGY
RICHARD STEINHARDT
Gaming out the Iran War
The Continuing US Attack on Indian Non-Alignment
The Mysterious Death Wish of the Western Ruling Class
The Road to Greater Khorasan
PHIL HALL
Lebanon Envy
A Critique of Noam Chomsky’s Work
A Letter to the Apolitical You, Rudi
Solaris and the Loving Sky
PAST ISSUES
BOOKS FOR SALE
POSTS
CONTRIBUTORS
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BOOKS BY AN EDITIONS
THAT WAS HUGO BLYTHE MP
OSCAR: THE SECOND COMING
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THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND FISH
CONTRIBUTORS
POSTS
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Western Collateral Damage in Ukraine
Photograph by Yevhen Sukhenko The Disastrous Defeat of a Failed Financialised Proxy “Capitalism is the greatest creator of wolves in human history, and imperialism has not only been the greatest creator of wolves but also the greatest wolf that has ever existed.” Fidel Castro by Richard Steinhardt There are two cauldrons the Russian Federation…
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Letter to ‘Ugly Americans’ in The Alternative Media
Photo by Jabez Cutamora by Richard Steinhardt Americans in the alternative media and catastrophisers in Europe, both on the left and on the right, have been anything but fair in their criticism of Europe and European nations. If our countries’ leadership behaves like proxy compradors, it is because you have made them in your…
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Capitalist versus Socialist Innovation
Aqua Car with watermelon umbrella. Photograph by Lies On Real needs and wants, not “money votes”, should determine what is produced and innovated. by Phil Hall In a classic 1951 British Ealing Studios satire called The Man in the White Suit, starring Sir Alec Guinness, Guinness plays Sidney Stratton, a research chemist working at…
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An Open Letter to Andy Burnham
Official portrait, 2026. Photograph Alecsandra Dragoi, No 10 Downing Street, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons Dear Andy Burnham, I suppose becoming Prime Minister is something that you really worked hard for. And you, a realist and a good communicator, have quite an admirable track record on some things. Apparently you did well as the mayor…
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Israel Must Embrace Its Middle East Identity and Reject Zionism and Its Proxy Status to Survive and Thrive Under a New Flag and Name
Yemeni Jews leaving to Aden. Photograph Zoltan Kluger by Richard Steinhardt If state-building anywhere is a process of political alchemy, that process is already forging a real society on the ground. Even at this late stage, stripped of Zionism, its ‘white’ identity and its servitude to American imperial interests, Israel can transform into a…
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THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ROPED THE NATO DOPE
Photo by Andrew Appolonov Russia’s goal is a new security architecture, not a mere victory over Ukraine by Richard Steinhardt In a war of attrition, Ukraine is Russia’s cauldron designed to destroy NATO. The war has taken over four years so far. Logically this long war makes no immediate sense if the objective was…
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THE BRUSH IS DEADLIER THAN THE SWORD
Trump & Boris. Illustration by Martin Rowson, published in the Tribune A CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN ROWSON – with Paul Halas and Phil Hall Martin Rowson’s political cartoons started appearing in the national press in the 1980s, and he’s been metaphorically eviscerating the great, the good and the very bad ever since. He was appointed…
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3I/ATLAS’ Rendezvous at Jupiter
Image prompted by Phil Hall Dealing with the Ontological Shock Something real did happen! The object was first detected on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. Avi Loeb, as an eminent scientist and rationalist, does not like science fiction. But it was Arthur C. Clarke who thought up the…
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Atomic Tangerine Razzle Dazzle Rose, Screamin’ Green, Bittersweet Shimmer
Fuchsia coloured Clematis. Photograph Phil Hall The nature and meaning of colour, and its use by capitalism and imperialism as an instrument of power and control by Phil Hall When you walk into Chapel Matisse in Vence, or Chapelle du Rosaire, the experience is a powerful one. The blue and yellow colours radiate in…
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IMAGES AND WORDS – TALKING WITH KERRY DRUMM
On the set of Memoir of a Snail. Still by kind permission of ArenaMedia INTERVIEWED BY PAUL HALAS & PHIL HALL Kerry Drumm has variously been an animator, designer, illustrator, film archivist, production coordinator, screenwriter, playwright and children’s book author… in fact when I first familiarised myself with her body of work I thought,…
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