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Making Films about the Working-Class: Mike Leigh in Conversation with Qalandar Bux Memon. Part-I

Qalandar Bux Memon: Let’s start with your last film, Peterloo.  I read it as an essay on a social movement. It wasn’t focused on a particular character, of course.  There was no hero, it explained how unity was build by working-class activists across divisions to demand there rights. It focused on the movement, my first question…
February 10, 20240Comments

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“Sonic Opposition to the Powers That Be” Part-I: Asian Dub Foundation (ADF)’s John Pandit in conversation with NoorAfshan Mirza.

John Pandit/Aka Pandit G of Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) in conversation with NoorAfshan Mirza. Part I. NoorAfshan Mirza: My first question is about the way you have tried to work with the community to produce music. What has been your process? And what would you say, have been its successes and failures?  John Pandit: Well, yeah. My…
February 10, 20240Comments

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“The Winter of Absolute Zero”: Interview with Shaj Mohan by Auwn Gurmani

The 20th century carried a silent consensus that philosophy was Western, which then was split into ‘continental’ and ‘Anglo-Saxon’/analytical. In recent decades we have seen the assertive presence of non-White philosophers including Achilles Mbembe, Anthony Appiah, Divya Dwivedi, and Shaj Mohan. Shaj Mohan is the philosopher who has been “forsaken”[i] by philosophical traditions as his work…
February 10, 20240Comments

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INTERVIEWS Philosophy POLITICS

Costas Douzinas on People to People Solidarity, the Rise of the Right-Wing in Europe, Syriza In Power, and Refugees and the EU.

Qalandar Bux Memon: Can you please talk about the spaces in Greece that opened up, started by the people who were trying to support and help the refugees and by refugees? Costas Douzinas: Yeah, the solidarity centers - which flourished in the last few years. They were helped by, not so much by the government,…
February 10, 20240Comments

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On Solidarity between Communities of Color in “Justice for George Floyd” Protests: Interview with Alia Jeraj.

Singer, writer and educator Alia Jeraj talks to Naked Punch Review about her observations, as a resident of the Twin Cities, Minnesota and a member of the South Asian American community, regarding the on-going protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd. She discusses the goals of the protest movement, the violence seen during the…
February 10, 20240Comments

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“To Sing, To Dance, To Creolise and make Music”: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera On Transitions from the Present

Oscar Guardiola-Riverateaches International Law and Globalization and is the Assistant Dean of the School of Law at the University of London, Birkbeck. He is the award-winning author of "What If Latin America Ruled the World" and "Being Against the World: Rebellion and Constitution". He is a member of the Naked Punch Collective and the Editorial…
February 10, 20240Comments

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Tariq Ali on Corbyn and the British Media, Palestine, Kurdistan, Pashtun movements and how to revive Internationalism.

Tariq Ali Interview Transcript: Interview conducted on 1st June 2019.  Vilayat Khan: So, let’s start with Corbyn and the Labour Party.  How would you assess Corbyn on Brexit?  Tariq Ali: I think Corbyn’s position is correct. I think to make Brexit into the major divide of the British politics is crazy. Given…
February 9, 20240Comments

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Solidarity Above All: Josh Hon and Stephanie Bailey talk about Art, Politics and Football

Stephanie Bailey and Josh Hon in conversation   Josh Hon is an artist from Hong Kong who trained in the United States before returning to the city in 1982, where he established himself as a central figure in the art and political scenes of what was then a British colony. Hon’s cross-disciplinary practice encapsulated everything from theatre…
February 9, 20240Comments

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