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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TAKHTI, THE IRANIAN PEOPLE’S CHAMPION
Takhti receiving a medal from the Iranian government with Mossadegh in attendance The embodiment of Fotovat by Ali Hosseyni Gholamreza Takhti’s غلامرضا تختی name is all over Iran and in ever city and town there are wrestling clubs with Takhti’s smiling photograph hanging on the wall in a position of honour. There is even a “Takhti” wrestling…
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SKY, SEA AND VELD
Dirt Road to Hanover, Karoo © Walter Voigt 2024 WALTER VOIGT’S PAINTINGS OF SOUTH AFRICA by Paul Halas While some painters need a sense of detachment to produce their best work, others can’t but help show a sense of intimacy with their subjects. This is mainly true with artists and their live models, but…
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When Hollywood rewrote South African History
Hollywood’s Golem version of Mandela by Phil Hall The Western media approved of what seemed like Nelson Mandela’s overly conciliatory beginnings after his release in 1990 and later saw the reflection of their own intentions in the strategies and policies of Thabo Mbeki’s government, the government that followed Mandela’s. In fact Mandela and the…
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1. ACTING PRESIDENTS
Bronze statue of FDR with his dog, Fala, Pexels by Norman B. Schwartz In his younger and leaner days, Orson Welles was summoned to the White House by the President of the United States. Franklin Delano Roosevelt greeted the actor, who he admired. “I am delighted to meet the second greatest actor in America,”…
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A Plop in the Ocean
Are offshore tankers a temporary solution to the sewage crisis? by Paul Halas, Phil Hall, Steve Parker, Nicole Stocks, Karl Rutledge . . Officially, the United Kingdom ceased to be a developing country when Sir Joseph Bazalgette CB, a descendent of French Huguenots, designed a new sewage system to solve the problem of the…
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Seán Lennon’s Rock Dreams
Martin Hayes, Seán Lennon© 2024 . . Kris Kristofferson ‘Thank you for the sadness that you saved me from the madness, baby all I’m crying now are tears of joy..’ ‘In the park I saw a daddyWith a laughin’ little girl that he was swingin’And I stopped beside a Sunday schoolAnd listened to the songs…
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Is Keir Starmer really a foreign policy realist?
Firing British Stormshadow missiles into Russian Federation territory would be absolutely SUICIDAL! by Phil Hall I know that nearly all of us on the left have given up on Keir Starmer and remember his personal betrayal of Jeremy Corbyn with a deep bitterness. But we have to recognise that he is in charge of…
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The Assignment
a short story by P.W. Bridgman A Common Destination By different pathways, in early 1951, two men eventually found their separate ways to a common destination. They arrived within a week of one another, Mr. Bell by his own steam, Jesse Nazaire not. Nazaire: Feral, Fit, of Sound Mind and Guilty Nazaire was arrested…
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Photo essay: The Aquatic Comfort of the Gulf
John Lawrence swimming, Phil Hall by Phil Hall ‘And your Lord taught the honey bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in habitations; Then to eat of all the produce of the earth, and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink…
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‘Palestine Wail’ by Yahia Lababidi, reviewed by Tina Bexson
Silence and complicity are active ingredients in the cocktail of death that is Gaza. Perhaps even more so than the bombs, rockets, bullets, disease, starvation, and torture that, according to a study published by The Lancet in July, have already likely wiped out near 186,000 people once indirect deaths are included. The ability of…
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