Struggles over memory in South Africa
Revisionism pervades popular culture in South Africa now, coloring our perception of the past.
Jeremy Cronin
Jeremy Cronin’s Cape Town
The leftist and poet Jeremy Cronin speaks on identity politics and race in South Africa's second city, Cape Town.
The Party is not The Nation
From that same interview that I have been so liberally cutting and pasting from this week—in
Pseudo-cosmopolitanism
More from that 2008 Comparative Literature interview with my favorite Communist poet, Jeremy Cronin. Bua Komanisi:
Slipping into individualistic comfort
The daily word of inspiration (cut and pasted from Contemporary Literature) from my favorite, comtemporary Communist,
Fascism and Aesthetics
Jeremy Cronin is my favorite Communist. Astute, intellectual and a poet. Cronin is a former political
Joe Slovo was one of my heroes
Joe Slovo was a key leader of the armed and exiled resistance against Apartheid. He was also the most visible white face of that movement.