Sometimes, after I take a nap, I wake up, and wonder where I am, and what’s happening. It takes a few moments for memory to kick in. Steve Latham I feel like that with Covid. I blurrily try to work out what’s going on now, as the scene […]
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Church vs. State
Why European courts don’t cut churches much slack during confinement. Darrin Burgess When Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York ordered a second wave of lockdowns last October to stem the contagion of Covid-19, he evoked the now-familiar distinction between essential and non-essential venues, and put severe restrictions on […]
Sentences: style and substance
For the last quarter of a century Brian Dillon has been copying sentences into the back pages of whatever notebook he happened to be using for some other purpose. Sean Sheehan He has amassed scores of these notebooks and their back pages provide the basis for the […]
Brutality and impunity in gender violence
Between 1st April and 13th November of this year in the Dominican Republic, between, 40 women, including six minors, lost their lives at the hands of their partners. Covid-19 and a macho society exacerbate the problem. Edilberto F. Méndez Amador Likewise, in the first 46 days of the […]
The favela does not shut up and neither does he
According to data from the 2020 Atlas of Violence, 75% of homicide victims in Brazil in 2018 were black. And the situation seems to be getting worse. Andr Constantine knows this and together with him a movement has emerged that redefines the class struggles, the decolonisation struggle, the anti-racist and anti-capitalist struggle.
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