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Thinking, acting, creating, communicating: within its inexhaustible wealth and diversity, human creation is going through a revolution. The masters of the world are trying to appropriate it. We resist.
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‘The Man who sold his skin’: Sidi Bouzid girl goes to Hollywood
Rim Ben Fraj ريم بن فرج
As a child, Kaouther Ben Hania went with her writer dad to the cinema in Sidi Bouzid, which has now become the registry office of the municipality. Thus, when Bouzidians need a birth certificate, they go to the “cinema”. A beautiful …
Canaanite inscription found in Israel is ‘missing link’ in alphabet’s history
Ariel David ارييل ديفيد אריאל דוד
The tiny inscribed pottery shard unearthed at Lachish dates to 3,500 years ago and is the oldest text from the Southern Levant to use alphabetic writing, rather than pictographic, archaeologists say
Early alphabetic inscription found on a pottery …
“They taught me a lot about love and caring for each other”: Interview with Ricky Staub, writer-director of ‘Concrete Cowboy’
Luke Parker
One day, from outside his office window in North Philadelphia, Ricky Staub saw a cowboy on horseback, galloping along the concrete as if the boulevards and avenues beneath him were still made of dirt and grass-root. A few questions traced the city …
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The young Jewish women who fought the nazis – and why you’ve never heard of them
– Adrian Hennigan
A powerful new book, ‘The Light of Days,’ reveals the tragic and audacious stories of fearless Polish …
The devastating maoist chapter in the life of a prominent Holocaust historian
Annette Wieviorka on her book ‘My Chinese Years’
– Gaby Levin גבי לוין غابي ليفين
Admired historian Annette Wieviorka’s visit to China in the 1970s as a Maoist student turned her world …
For sale: a sad pair of eyes
– Jorge Majfud
The first time I saw her was at a set of traffic lights along an avenue, right where the cars wanting …
The meaning of the Paris Commune
An interview with Kristin Ross
– Manu Goswami मनु गोस्वामी
What can the Paris Commune offer to present struggles for emancipation?
Communards …
Our lives between the covers of the Raging Twenties: new book
– Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Great power politics meets techno-feudalism in the newly published Pepe Escobar guide to our fraught …
‘Re-Thinking Togetherness. Know. Act. Now!‘, a book by LaBGC & Harald Haarmann
Interview with the authors
– Milena Rampoldi ميلينا رامبولدي میلنا رامپلدی Милена Рампольди
After writing articles together you began to write books in cooperation. Right now the translation of …
What studying Old Europe can teach us today
Conversation with Kathleen Imholz
– Milena Rampoldi ميلينا رامبولدي میلنا رامپلدی Милена Рампольди
Kathleen Imholz, born in New York City to Irish and German parents, is a graduate of Cornell University …
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