As Cuba celebrates its Revolution for the 55th time, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo examines the ways in which Cuba has stayed the same.
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Havana writer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo expresses concern over animal abandonment and cruelty in Cuba, which he believes is a sign of “greater tragedy to come.”
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Havana writer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo expresses concern over animal abandonment and cruelty in Cuba, which he believes is a sign of “greater tragedy to come.”
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the mass protests taking place in Hong Kong, sparked by the dissemination of The China Model to public schools. Many feel the booklet signals the start of a “brainwash” education.
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In this exclusive interview, the award-winning filmmaker and Surrealist Jan Švankmajer discusses censorship, the history of the Czech-Slovak Surrealist Group, his most recent work, and his ideas on freedom and revolution.
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In this week’s Night Watch column, writer Israel Centeno reflects on the transformation a true revolutionary undergoes once he attains power: he becomes an “agent of the new imposed order.” A contradiction only resolved by “totalitarian requisition.”
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Israel Centeno reviews Double Lives by Stephen Koch, which looks back at Willi Müzenberg and the Innocents’ Clubs of the early 20th century. Such groups of naïve left intellectual sympathizers of “good despots”, Centeno argues, still abound today.
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