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ON A DAY THIS WEEK. The Assassination of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez
On a day this week, January 9th, 2013, Sakine Cansiz (Sara), Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Paris Representative Fidan Doğan (Rojbin), and Leyla Şaylemez were shot dead in their Paris office
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CRACKS IN THE SKIN – Ashraf Fayadh THE POET IN PRISON
Cracks in the skin, a poem written by Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh from a Saudi Arabian jail
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BOOK. ‘The Design of Everyday Life’ by Adam Greenfield
Last June 2017, Verso (formerly New Left Books founded in 1970 by the staff of the New Left Review) released ‘Radical Technologies – The Design of Everyday Life’ by American writer, Adam Greenfield
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK in December, 1961. Frantz Fanon
On a day this week, December 6, 1961, the writer and revolutionary-marxist Frantz Fanon, author of the ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ (among other works of philosophy and biting critiques of colonialism), died from leukemia
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Tahir Elçi. ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN NOVEMBER, 2015
On a day this week, 28 November, 2015, Tahir Elçi, Kurd, Lawyer and Human Rights defender was shot in Diyarbakir, Northern Kurdistan
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Walter Benjamin. A poem by Séamas Carraher
That time too, Walter, has left, like a painting or a book that hangs, birdlike, from your mouth, wide-open in surprise: your death mask’s endless labouring
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Note to Self
Sarah Clancy is an Irish poet from the West of Ireland. She has three books published at the moment
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For Hernán Monardes, Jesuit
Victor Jara, poet, singer-songwriter, and left-wing political activist was arrested at the Technical University (today the Universidad de Santiago) shortly after the start of the military coup of 11 September 1973
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18 Theses, on the Philosophy of History, (poem), 2
Danger! The past will come upon us now like a carbomb or a trainwreck to the station
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