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Back to homepageAslı Erdogan, WRITER TO BE TRIED AS “TERRORIST”
Aslı Erdoğan… as of November 25th held for 98 days (along with 70 year old linguist, Necmiye Alpay, held now for 86 days) in Istanbul’s Bakırköy women’s prison in Istanbul
Read MoreAbdellatif Laabi an Introduction
Abdellatif Laâbi, poet, writer, and translator was born in Fez, (a French Protectorate since 1912), in 1942
Read MoreFor Asl? Erdo?an
On November 15th, Margaret Atwood writes to Asl? Erdo?an in a Turkish prison: “you are not alone”
Read MoreCHINA: Communist Party Legislates on Film Industry
Just recently, Monday November 7th, the 150 member Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress approved the new legislation regulating the growing film industry in China
Read MoreON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN NOVEMBER, 1990
On a day this week, the 11th November, 1990, the Greek poet, communist and political prisoner, Yannis Ritsos died in Athens
Read MoreTURKEY: DEALING DEATH BLOW TO DEMOCRACY
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass – a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience – by experience.”
Read MoreNovember in Northern Kurdistan
The Co-chairs and Deputies of the HDP who were detained in a large-scale operation last night
Read More“In the first 9 months…” TERROR IN ‘TURKISH’ KURDISTAN
There isn’t a poem or a text or a piece of music that can adequately describe the terror and the outrage and the pain inflicted on humans in the course of our long history
Read MoreON 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
Read MoreBenjamin’s Grave
Seamas Carraher returns on Walter Benjamin with what he himself calls an “experimental poem”.
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