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Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They’re much better than any column of political analysis.

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The Discarded Soldier

7 November 2018 / 348

Jenny Farrell introduces a little-known short story by Liam O’Flaherty 11 November 2018 marks the centenary of the ending of World War I. During that bloody... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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José Saramago: visions of a better world

29 September 2018 / 354

Jenny Farrell pays tribute to the communist writer José Saramago, whose vision of another, possible world is still relevant today. Twenty years ago, on 8 October 1998,... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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Emily Brontë, Heathcliff and imagining a classless society

22 June 2018 / 447

Jenny Farrell discusses ‘Wuthering Heights’, and its subtle, skilful imagining of a more humane, classless society, where unequal gender difference is replaced by an equality of personhood.... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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Dreaming of communism: News from Nowhere by William Morris

31 March 2018 / 409

John Ellison offers an appreciation of ‘News from Nowhere’, by William Morris. Opening salvo There can be no denying that the content of News from Nowhere, the... Continue reading

John Ellison

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‘The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter’: Dashiell Hammett vs. Joe McCarthy

28 February 2018 / 511

Phil Brett tells the story of when Dashiell Hammett faced Senator Joseph McCarthy. ... Continue reading

Phil Brett

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This harp shall never be silent: Tomás Mac Síomóin at 80

13 February 2018 / 351

Jenny Farrell marks Tomás Mac Síomóin’s birthday on 19 February with an essay on this subversive, internationalist writer, who translated the Communist Manifesto into Irish, satirises contemporary neoliberal... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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The Profit Motive

30 January 2018 / 478

The Profit Motive – Part One by Owain Holland I speak to you from a secret Government facility named ‘Arthur’s Grave’ on Lundy Island. My name is... Continue reading

Owain Holland

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Swift’s satires of English colonialism

11 December 2017 / 1196

On his 350th anniversary, Jenny Farrell outlines how Jonathan Swift’s books expressed and strengthened Ireland’s cultural struggle against English colonialism. Jonathan Swift was born 350 years ago,... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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Witness to the Revolution

23 September 2017 / 376

John Ellison sketches out the life of Maxim Gorky, the righteous, relentless witness of the revolution who evoked the wretchedness and terror of living under Tsarist violence.... Continue reading

John Ellison

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Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They’re much better than any column of political analysis.

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