“The State and revolution” was written by Lenin in 1917, after events in February had overthrown the Tsar but before October when Bolsheviks took power. Sean Sheehan It was an intensely political interregnum and dangerous too: Lenin had become a wanted man, with a reward of 200,000 roubles […]
In Focus
In Focus
Growing individually, growing socially
A different proposal would be this: in order to grow as individuals it is important to grow socially. The great majority of books on psychology refer to the individual person. It would seem as if each individual person were isolated from their social context. Mabel Encinas The idea […]
Disasters are made by those with most power
Ninety-five per cent of deaths from disasters are amongst the poorest of the world’s population. Only 2% of disasters are in the developed world. All disasters are essentially man-made. The poor are always hit by far the worst. Nigel Pocock It might seem surprising to my readers […]
Bogota, a convulsed and despairing city
The metropolis is a frenzied animal. But what can it do to defend itself? Jump. Cry. Ask us to show it some mercy? Ask us to refrain from filling it with temples, where even God refuses to pray. Armando Orozco Tovar The Earth is an animal. She shakes […]
A photographic memory of Palestine before the Nakba
The Nakba, the dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians by Israelis in 1948, in the words of Mohammed El-Kurd “breathes down our necks, invading our national identity and contorting our earliest encounters with our sense of self”. Sean Sheehan He writes this in the foreword to the 2024 edition […]