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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The Brickfields of Dhaka
by Inge Colijn The Brickfields of Dhaka, photo ©Erna Ingeborg Colijn, 2023 The catastrophic air pollution in Dhaka and the damaged topsoil in the surrounding agricultural lands is mainly due to the presence of brick factories. In 2019 the government started destroying many of the illegal facilities which, followed by a slowdown in production…
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5. THE BLACK HUTS
One of the Huts, photo Margaret Yip by Margaret Yip It is 1977, my children are eleven, ten, seven, six, and three. Elvis has died. His music has accompanied my life since the 50’s, especially his gospel records. My husband Martin arrives home from work at 2.30 pm one day early in 1977 and…
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Can there be such a thing as an Indian restaurant?
Arun Kapil, the owner of Green Saffron Spices, photo Daragh McSweeney Indian Cooking: the Home, Street and Palace by Arun Kapil Can there be such a thing as an Indian restaurant? The whole Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, is so vast and its beautiful cuisine is so different from region to…
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THE STORY OF MY COFFEE
Drinking coffee in Abu Dhabi, 2018 by Phil Hall I must have seen those small thick, white Lido hotel porcelain cups and smelled the rank contents long before I tasted the coffee inside them. The Lido is still there. On the road between Pretoria and Johannesburg. It was my grandfather’s hotel. The first coffee…
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ANDY HALL: NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL
© Andy Hall photographer Exhibition at the Tabernacle Centre W11 2AY Photographer Andy Hall dives into the fray with his camera, showing us scenes, moments and happenings on the streets of west London during Europe’s largest and most diverse annual urban open-air party known as the Notting Hill Carnival. I’ve been going to Notting…
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Tebræ
Door in Mali, photo Leigh Voigt ISMAËL DIADIÉ HAÏDARA AND HIS EPIGRAMMATIC POETRY ISMAËL DIADIÉ HAÏDARA’s poems may speak of exile, but not in a predictable way that just invokes loss and sadness. He writes: “Exile is not sad. / Far from my home here is love, snow, the sea.” Tebrae is an aggregation of thoughts,…
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NATO’S STRATEGIC DELUSIONS RISK WORLD WAR
The nuclear capable TU-160, Vitaly V. Kuzmin, Wikimedia Commons How many steps away are we from thermonuclear Armageddon? by James Tweedie, The war in Ukraine has now been raging for more than two years. While neither has published complete figures for its own casualties, methods such as monitoring online obituaries indicate that tens of…
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PITCAIRN’S SIX FORGOTTEN MEN
The Polynesian Men of His Majesty’s Army Vessel, BOUNTY by Glynn Christian The trials and the contributions to Pitcairn Island of the Polynesian women who sailed aboard HMAV BOUNTY with Fletcher Christian have at last been more fully recognised by writers and historians. A few decades ago, a sign at the top of Pitcairn…
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PART 1: WHAT WAS THE USSR?
The Icebreaker Yamal, made in a Leningrad shipyard in 1986, photo Pink floyd88 A personal view by Philip Hall In the first place, anyone who has been involved in the struggle against colonialism, neo-colonialism and imperialism in Latin America, Africa and Asia and in the more neglected parts of Europe understands that the USSR…
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TWO NEW POEMS BY JULIAN STANNARD
Tobleronia Looking out of the windowlooking at the snowmade you feel drowsy.The train trundled along.You dozed off.You were asleep for too long.You missed that little villageon the hillwith its glühwein and chocolate fruit.You missed the Toblerone factoryand the ornate clock.You missed the Kunst Halleand the Rathouse.The train crossed the Rhine,crossed back again.You missed that…
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