THE MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY: A PRECIOUS UNIVERSAL RESOURCE
Paul Halas interviews Merian Jump, Director of the Marx Memorial Library
BOOK LAUNCH
EDITORIAL
RUMOURS OF THE DEATH OF EUROPE HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED
MEETING ALEX GORDON
Interview with Phil Hall and Paul Halas.
R E L I G I O N / P HI L O S O P H Y
THE GNOSTIC BLUEPRINT
Phil Hall
FOOD
I SMELL THEREFORE I AM
Arun Kapil
S C I E N C E F I C T I O N
GOODLY CREATURES
J. W. Wood
S C I E N C E S P E C U L A T I O N
3I ATLAS: ALONG COMES A BLACK SWAN
Phil Hall
F I L M
LONE WOLVERINE
Norman B. Schwartz
PALESTINE
THE SADEAN MORAL CALCULUS
Richard Steinhardt
THE BOOKSHOP
Amal Chatterjee
PERFORMANCE POETRY
DUMAH
Yogesh Patel
COMMENT
UNQUESTIONING SCIENTISTS & SERVILE INTELLECTUALS
Richard Steinhardt
ISABEL DEL RIO: FOUR POEMS
POETRY
LO SOCIAL ES HUMANO / THE SOCIAL IS HUMAN
Ulises Paniagua
ARS NOTORIA MAGAZINE
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Save Our Souls: The Fight to Preserve Britain’s Churches, Meeting Houses and Temples
Photograph Phil Hall New data reveals a sharp increase in the number of historic churches, meeting houses and temples at risk, threatening the vital social and economic fabric of Great Britain. by Phil Hall The historical parallel is stark. The dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII did not just target religion; it dismantled…
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Metropolis
Cityscape. Photograph Phil Hall by Amal Chatterjee When I was a child, I dreamed of aeroplanes, great silver birds crossing continents and oceans, I watched their thin vapour trails draw and spread as they made their way from distant cities to others yet more distant. But now the novelty has worn off, I know…
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Stories of Football and Madness / Cuentos de Fútbol y Locura
In the Maracana Photo by Andre Dantas on Pexels.com by Ulises Paniagua Down the Right Wing The poor child (…) finds in football the possibility of social ascent, having no toy but the ball: the ball is the only magic wand he can believe in.Eduardo Galeano He received the ball down the right wing,…
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5. Life in the Sun
by David Yip Aged 32, I am single—my first gay relationship has ended. After lying to myself and others for years and only dating women, perhaps I had too many expectations, but I am devastated. My younger sister tells me to give myself a couple of weeks. During that time she comes to the…
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The President’s Feast
Belshazzar’s Feast Rembrandt, National Gallery, Public Domain Christmas is a time of feasting and self-indulgence for the lucky and powerful. For most of the world it is a time of hardship and starvation. And so it has always been. In the Bible, the story of Belshazzar’s Feast (in the Book of Daniel) tells the…
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Diesel, Chai & the Oyster Wind
Briny oysters, shrimp curled like punctuation marks, langoustines, hunks of crab meat and claws piled high with effortless French design. Photograph by Gvantsa Gongadze A punk-masaalchi essay on time, place and the flavours we carry. By Arun Kapil Some moments arrive so clean and sharp you can still taste the light around them. Honeymoon…
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14. Peons By the Pool: Standard Hollywood Contract
Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian in the Adventures of Robin Hood, (1938) Public Domain Wikimedia Commons by Norman B. Schwartz In the old days of the studio system, now long gone, the Big Five, as they were then called – MetroGoldwyn-Mayer, Fox (one day to unite with Twentieth Century Pictures), Warner Brothers, Paramount…
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10. Epilogue
Photograph David Yip by Margaret Yip The 1980s and Thatcher years were not good for Barrow-in-Furness; it remains one of the North’s most deprived areas. Both miners and shipyard workers went on strike during this time. No social housing was being built to replace the rows of dilapidated terraced houses and flats, whose back…
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EDITORIAL: THE NEW COMMONWEALTH
Photograph Phil Hall A DISCUSSION DOCUMENT FOR A HUMANE SOCIALIST BRITAIN (2025-2040) Great Britain stands at a historical precipice, facing three interlocking crises that demand radical yet grounded change. This document is not a break from our history, but a conscious attempt to revive, complete, and reimagine a great, humane tradition—the progressive legacy of…
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Con Rider on Shakespeare’s Play, Measure for Measure
Isabella and Angelo (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 2). Illustration James Fittler, engraving William Hamilton 1994, Public Domain This is perhaps the closest Shakespeare comes to presenting a dogma: “He who the sword of heaven would bear… should be as holy as severe.” Interviewed by Phil Hall Con Rider: I think my favourite…
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