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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Jeffrey Masson and The Assault on Truth
Appearing in 1989 on the British TV discussion programme After Dark, Wikimedia Commons Have we Misunderstood Freud? by Tina Bexson Freud challenged us to go beyond appearances and to consider that what a person consciously thought to be only a small insignificant part of their personality. He was then the first to place a concept…
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Excerpt: The Rights of Man and Fish
Cover of The Rights of Man and Fish – illus. Pete Field a novel by Paul Halas, illustrated by Pete Field and published by AN Editions Bienvenue, welcome…. So you’re the reporter from La Dépêche…. You speak English? That’s a relief…. Well, I’ve been here – what is it? Four? No, very nearly five…
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Excerpt: That Was Hugo Blythe MP
That Was Hugo Blythe MP, cover art credit Phil Hall a novel by Peter Cowlam, published by AN Editions That Was Hugo Blythe MP is the memoir, in diary form, of government researcher Alaric Casteele. It is set in a vaguely determined period in the early 2000s at the height of the New Labour…
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Horsemen of the Steppes
Mongolian Nomads Hold on to their Way of Life by Andy Hall the herdsmen would all have a spare horse tethered to the horse he was riding © Andy Hall The steppes were every bit as beautiful as I just imagined them to be. Very soft on the eye. Soft and gentle. A harsh landscape…
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Ukraine’s Right to Self-determination
Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, photo Falin, Wikimedia Commons More than 1.5 Million Ukrainians Haven’t Died for NATO by Phil Hall In June and July 2016 I wrote two articles warning about the looming war in the Ukraine which were published in the Morning Star by the foreign editor James Tweedie. The first article argued that: by…
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Where’s the Jeopardy, Chef?
Pan de Muerto photo by Leslie Torres on Pexels.com From Cantaloupe Island to Pan de Muerto, by way of Pollo Adobado and a Manchego and Chipotle Sandwich by Phil Hall My brother Andy and I once made a pitch for a TV programme to some young Channel 4 producers. We arranged a meeting with…
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7. STANLEY STRANGELUCK
Sit back and look at pretty pictures: Barry Lyndon, (screenshot) Fair Use by Norman B. Schwartz Stanley Kubrick was born in 1928 in the Bronx. His father, a Russian/Polish homeopathic doctor, encouraged his precocious son’s interest in photography, buying Stanley his first Graflex, a bulky camera much favored by police photographers. Young Stanley began…
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What’s Missing From Our Kitchens?
The Flame, photo Arun Kapil at Cork Pop-up Just gimme some truth! by Arun Kapil – founder of Green Saffron & defender of 10-minute magic It used to start with a sound. A sizzle. The hiss of butter hitting heat, or onions tumbling into oil. Not just aroma but evidence – that someone was…
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Have a little more respect for Sigmund Freud!
Professor Sigmund Freud, photo Max Halberstadt The less seriously we take Freud, the more they like it by Phil Hall Sigmund Freud, the neurologist who founded psychoanalysis and treated psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, revolutionised our understanding of the human mind. He believed that a lot of human behaviour was…
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Long live the victory of the USSR over Fascism
Photo – Paulo Oliveira, Pexels The USSR’s Victory Was Communist, Not Nationalist by Phil Hall For modern communists and humane socialists, the situation in Ukraine represents a triple shit show. On one side, there is the right-wing, recidivist Russian chauvinism that denigrates socialism, progressive ideals, and even Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) himself. This Russian…
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