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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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Meanwhile, in Italy: A Festival of Migrant Literature
There was a migrant literature festival in Sesto San Giovanni in early June and the September Mantua Literature Festival also focused on migrant stories
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On the Concept of History – Walter Benjamin – download e-book
Here we publish a new e-book, On the Concept of History by Walter Benjamin, translated by Dennis Redmond
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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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Global Rights presents its first e-book today
Post Views: 14 Global Rights has decided to venture into the world of e-books.
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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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New Palestinian-Syrian Play ‘Desert of Light’ Premieres This Month at Cornell
Set outside Damascus in the Yarmouk refugee camp, Desert of Light reveals the tragic absurdity of the Syrian civil war
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