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A cinema evening with Alborada

andA double bill of documentaries exploring the relationship between culture and politics will be screened Alborada Films  this Thursday 19 January in East London.   The evening will start at 6 p.m. with the UK premiere of “The people’s Train of culture” (El tren popular de la Cultura), Carolina Espinoza’s […]

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This golden mile

“This golden mile”, a photobook by Kavi Pujara, began life when Pujara started to photograph a neighbourhood around Leicester’s Golden Mile.   Sean Sheehan   He had spent the previous three decades living in London but Leicester was his hometown and it was time to make a journey that would […]

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Suffering in Syria

Syria has been in a state of war for ten years and President Bashar-al Assad is still in charge of the country. The increasing evidence of his military victory has come at a devastating price: over 400,000 Syrians killed and a refugee crisis named by the UN as the largest […]

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Pleasure and pain in equal measure

Readers know that this feisty study of six of Keats’s poems promises something fresh when the author announces  in her preface that any serious reading of Keats begins with the section on ‘Private Property and Communism’ from Marx’s “Economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844”.   Sean Sheehan   Anahid Nersessian’s […]