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
October Issue
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Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation, by Sudeep Sen
Poems Reviewed by Peter Cowlam The term ‘Anthropocene’ has been proposed as the definition of the geological epoch dating from the start of significant human impact on the earth, and on its ecosystems. Anthropocene is also the title of Sudeep Sen’s latest (multi-genre) book of poetry, prose and photography – published in the UK…
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IN DEFENCE OF THE UPSTART CROW
Writers have a voice: Francis Bacon’s voice is not Shakespeare’s by Philip R. Hall Shakespeare is the author of his own work, not anyone else. Why should people try to separate Shakespeare from his own work? My rationale for this is quite simple; it’s a miguided attempt to hoard intellectual capital for the elites.…
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“We’s Who’s the Earth is For”: Storm Visions
by Ciarán O’Rourke A decade ago I began to form a habit that in the intervening years has evolved into a strange passion: going to the cinema, and watching movies, alone. Two films in particular, from those early days, seemed so urgent and exhilarating, so attuned to what was then (and is still) being…
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WAKE UP WOMEN OF INDIA!
We must become self-reliant by Tasneem Sheikh Wake up! Wake up! I hear my aunt wake my sisters, cousins and me early in the morning. We were teenage girls on a vacation, staying at a distant relative’s house. The host thought it was a great time to throw a huge lunch party for relatives,…
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THE PILGRIM’S WAY: The Origins of The Old Road
The beginning of the road outside Winchester. Photograph Phil Hall by Derek Bright Over a century ago the writer Hillaire Belloc penned the term the Old Road for an ancient trackway that ran between Winchester and Canterbury. Belloc’s work, entitled the ‘Old Road’ has been described by a number of commentators as the first authoritative…
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DOORWAYS TO MALI
The doors of the Dogon are great works of the imagination By Leigh Voigt Mali is in the middle of the bulge of Africa. In the middle of Mali, is Timbuktu; inaccessible, intriguing, fabled. The very word conjures up images of men in blue robes on camels in the desert. Mali is a country…
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BAREKNUCLE BOXING IN VENDA: Tell us brother, what colour was Jesus?
Photograph Andy Hall by Andy Hall In the Remote Venda area of Northern South Africa local champions from the village of Gabo meet their counterparts from the neighbouring village of Chifudzi on the other side of a river, to partake in an annual bareknuckle boxing tournament known as the “Musengwa“. It is seen as…
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Humane Socialism
Keir Hardie, Wikimedia Commons Dare to dream! Prepare to act! . Authoritarian Socialism? What is the obvious puzzle that all humane supporters of communism and socialism are faced with? The problem of authoritarian socialism. It claims to eliminate all forms of exploitation, while, at the same time, clamping down on all dissent, murdering opponents,…
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HENRY VIII: ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Bluebeard himself By Phil Hall A beloved and ailing aunt—a great artist, a generous and beautiful soul, someone loved by nearly all living things (from turtles, cats, and dogs to the husband of a favourite niece)—woke up in the middle of the night and called London with an urgent question from 9,000 kilometres away: “Did…
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GROWING UP IN METRO MANILA
The life of the children of street traders and trishaw drivers By Inge Colijn In January 2020 I spent a week in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. I was struck by the many young children I saw being cared for by grandparents, parents and siblings. The children were looked after while their family…
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