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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN OCTOBER, 1961
On a day this week, the 21st October, 1961, the German Marxist “heretic” and theoretician Karl Korsch died in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
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Benjamin’s Grave
Seamas Carraher returns on Walter Benjamin with what he himself calls an “experimental poem”.
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“A GLOBAL RIGHTS BOOK – Culture of Liberation – series”
Just recently, Global Rights initiated its Culture of Liberation ebook series to give voice to our commitment to contribute to the work of transforming our world by creating a space where creative and critical ‘work’
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Theses on (the Philosophy of) History (poem) – downloadable E-Book
Here we publish Theses on (the Philosophy of) History (poem), a poem by Seamas Carraher
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK… WALTER BENJAMIN
On a day this week, the 26th (or 27th) of September 1940, the radical German Jewish intellectual, Marxist, and writer Walter Benjamin died by suicide after almost a decade fleeing the Nazis and on threat of being handed over to the Gestapo by Spanish border guards the following day…He was just 48 years old
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‘It Was Another Year’s September’
while out of sight and in continents far away there are these poets and prisoners locked away
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ROJAVA! …Political upheaval…military conflict…social revolution…
In the 2 years since the Turkish military declared war on the Kurdish people in the south east of their country (in Northern Kurdistan) there has been little concerted protest from the ‘Left’
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ANIMAL RIGHTS – ? – ANIMAL WRONGS
Cruelty perpetrated on animals by humans has to be the greatest kept ‘secret’ on the planet since the ending of the last ice-age approximately 150,000 years ago
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Pro-Kurdish Newspaper “Özgür Gündem” Violently Shut-Down in Istanbul
The images say it all. Journalists handcuffed, shirts torn. Beaten
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, in August 1956
On a day this week, the 14th August, 1956, after more than 40 years as playwright, theatre director and social critic, the communist writer and poet Bertolt Brecht died of heart failure in the flat he shared with Helene Weigel
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