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  • Imaginary

    Imaginary

    Drowning in a deluge of images without context, words without meaning, information without distinction—this is the subjective experience in an economy of immediacy.

  • Giving voice to inner screams

    Giving voice to inner screams

    For the late Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène, cinema was always an opportunity for dialogue with the audience. In this essay, Henry Roberts explores the aesthetics and political power of Sembène's cinematic oeuvre.
  • Lenin looks back in anger

    Lenin looks back in anger

    In this excerpt from Lenin’s Childhood, Isaac Deutscher creates a scene from the Twentieth CPSU Congress, 1956, where an imagined Lenin reflects on what Leninism has become.

  • Lenin: Geared to One Purpose

    Lenin: Geared to One Purpose

    In Not By Politics Alone, Tamara Deutscher describes a Lenin whose whole being was geared to one purpose, the purpose of the revolution.
  • Realizing Africa

    Realizing Africa

    "Through his filmmaking and overall cinematic framework, Sembène realized the dream of a unified and borderless Africa which its political leaders have yet to produce." Matene Toure revisits Ousmane Sembène's 1988 film Camp de Thiaroye, highlighting his life's ambition of inspiring revolutionary action through film.
  • Ruth Wilson Gilmore: On the Centenary of Lenin's Death

    Ruth Wilson Gilmore: On the Centenary of Lenin's Death

    Ruth Wilson Gilmore asks how might the politics explained or implied in Lenin’s writings inform our analytical and practical grasp of what is to be done now, in her introduction to Imperialism and the National Question.

  • Big Ship Stuck

    Big Ship Stuck

    Georgina Voss explores the strangeness of scale in global supply chain systems through the ship that launched a thousand memes, the Ever Given.