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
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The Marx Memorial Library: A Precious Universal Resource
A banner featuring Karl Marx, with the Marx Memorial Library building behind him. Photograph Paul Halas An Archive of Ideas to Change the World by Paul Halas Housed in an elegant eighteenth century building in Clerkenwell, the Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School contains a comprehensive collection of books, pamphlets, artworks, newspapers and magazines,…
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Editorial: Rumours of the Death of Europe have been Greatly Exaggerated
Harold Wilson was willing to defy the U.S. and refused to take us to war in Vietnam. Photograph by Allen Warren, Creative Commons License From an anti-hegemonic, class-conscious perspective in favour of UK sovereignty and European wide solidarity and cooperation, we should have concluded that Europe’s problems are more political and geopolitical in the…
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DUMAH
Screenshot from Yogesh Patel’s new poetry film, Dumah The Demands of the Art of Making a Poetry Film Using AI by Yogesh Patel “Thunderbirds are go,” I command myself when the creative current hits. It’s an almost primeval surge—the familiar, heady rush of a launch sequence. Just like the nostalgic wires of that puppet…
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BOOK LAUNCH, AUTUMN 2025
AN EDITIONS and CentreHouse Press… …are launching new titles and paperbacks. The launch will take place on 12th November, 5.30 PM in the Library of the Society of Friends at The Quaker Centre, 173-177 Euston Road, London AN Editions is the publishing arm of the Humane Socialist magazine, Ars Notoria. Launched in March this year, we’re proud to carry on our tradition of publishing…
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3I ATLAS: Along Comes a Black Swan
Cited from A. Loeb: 3I/ATLAS from the Two-meter Twin Telescope in the Canary Islands, August 2, 2025. It shows a faint jet pointed towards the Sun, extending out to a projected distance of about 6,000 kilometers from the nucleus, The direction away from the Sun (where a generic cometary tail should have pointed), is…
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The Gnostic Blueprint
Detail from Gustave Moreau, The Apparition (1876) From Desert Scrolls to Modern Cults by Phil Hall Religions often begin with a core, a simple idea that becomes complicated as it unfolds through history. The art historian Kenneth Clark once observed that Islam was the simplest of the great religions invented by man. But what…
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The Terminal Decline of Radio 3, by Jon Elsby
In the far off days when I was a boy, the Third Programme (as Radio 3 was then called) formed a vital part of my cultural education – primarily in music, but also in literature. I remember hearing actors of the calibre of Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, David Buck, Sybil Thorndike, Athene Seyler, Janet…
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MEETING BING SHI
Portrait of Bing Shi by Andy Hall by Paul Halas For all its many faults social media sometimes provides us with gems, and the paintings of artist Bing Shi have for us been one of the highlights on Facebook this year. Working in oils, with bold, sweeping brushstrokes that fail to mask a deep…
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Books, by Harry Greenberg
I think I met him first on a 24 bus coming through the West End. ‘Look, look,’ he said, ‘all those marvellous bookshops, doesn’t it make your heart glad?’ I nodded and made a long erm sound. But the truth was I couldn’t care a toss about books. I’d just finished finals and had…
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Line Boil: Don Hertzfeldt, The Gift That Just Keeps Giving, by Kathryn A. Kopple
With latex-covered fingers tugging hard at my tired mouth, the dentist informed me I had chipped a front tooth. Strange. I hadn’t noticed. So much had happened. COVID happened. We went into lockdown. My mother passed away. My marriage was frayed – and there were my children. My eldest child was a teacher and…
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