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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APPLES FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE BOG
An old Rosemary Russet in Wisley Gardens , photo Phil Hall by Phil Hall Eating an apple is like drinking milk. Apples come from a living organism, a relative. The original apple was a fig. Our ancestors co-evolved with fig trees. We are a by-product of fig tree ecology—along with the wasp larvae that…
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PANGLOSSIAN DREAMS OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
John Singer Sargent | Joseph Jefferson as Dr. Pangloss | The Metropolitan Museum of Art PR is not a solution to the political impasse in the UK by Phil Hall There is no gimcrack technical electoral fix to the problem of inequality. When I was a teenager at school, I came across young people…
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3. MARGARET & MARTIN
Martin Yip by Margaret Yip I met Martin in Whitehaven, where I worked for him. He was only 21. Martin had lots of energy. His restaurant was on three floors. The kitchen was in the basement. He could carry five or six plates in his left hand and on his arm and three in his…
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THE ENDANGERED ALPHABETS PROJECT
Mandiac script, Carving by Tim Brookes, The Endangered Alphabets Project Writing Rights, Human Rights by Tim Brookes I had been researching, carving and speaking about endangered alphabets for a decade before it struck me that the few reference sources on the topic said nothing about why these Indigenous and minority cultures were losing or…
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2. ISOBAL ALONE
Photo of Isobal with her son, Joseph By Margaret Yip I left school in 1964 at the age of 15. It was a Friday. I needed a job. By Monday, I had an interview which took place in my home. The wife of a housemaster at a private boys’ school in St. Bees needed…
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EXHIBITION AMEN
by Zeek Fharkha Zeek Fharkha is an artist, musician, punk, with 2 masters and an honours degree. Fine arts, digital arts and an MBA. He is reading for a PhD at wits business school in Design thinking.
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GOATS FOR THE PEOPLE OF PASHTUN ZARGHUN
By Inge Colijn During my 27 years of work for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, I lived in many countries and they all became special to me. But some places like Afghanistan mean more. I was told at our headquarters in Geneva that people from abroad working in Afghanistan would either love being…
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DANCING TO THE BEAT OF MY ART
Detail from Pure Bliss, Tasneem Shaikh Exhibiting at the World Art Fair in 2022 and 2023 by Tasneem Shaikh My heart races unusually fast. My joy has no bounds. For the first time, I am exhibiting my paintings at a major event, at World Art Dubai (WAD). It is March 2022. So far, I…
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SAINT JOHN OF THE RABBITS
Paricutín erupting, by Dr. Atl by Philip Hall I married into a large and regionally important Mexican family, and so got to know some parts of Mexico quite well. I lived there, first as a student at the university of Vera Cruz in the early eighties, later in Mexico City as a teacher, and…
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OPEN LETTER TO THE ALIENS
From July 12 to 29, 1952, a series of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings were reported in Washington, D.C. and later became known as the Washington flap You aliens are sociopaths – Interstellar Jeremy Clarksons by Phil Hall If you come to Earth, into our communities as a guest, then you must give an account of yourselves. If you don’t…
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