Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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Irish writer Colum McCann’s novel ‘Apeirogon’ addresses Israeli/Palestinian dilemma
June 17, 2021In the context of Israel’s de-facto annexation policy, Apeirogon by Colum McCann is worth reading more than ever.
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The Paris Commune: ‘In future we will turn the guns on you’
May 28, 2021The Communards, who knew nothing but violence and exploitation, wished for peace and spared their enemy. Yet history necessitates the unequivocal assumption of political power under penalty of defeat.
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Artist Albrecht Dürer, born 1471, champion of the peasant class
May 19, 2021Albrecht Dürer was born 550 years ago, on May 21, 1471, during the Renaissance, a time of upheaval, that rang in the early modern age.
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Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’: A beloved piece of music for children
April 19, 2021This musical fairy tale, just under half an hour in length, is a surprisingly successful example of Socialist Realism, the newly promoted Soviet esthetic of the 1930s.
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Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Toward ‘a social order worthy of the human race’
March 3, 2021Remembering Red Rosa on her 150th birthday.
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John Keats – A Revolutionary Romantic
February 11, 2021John Keats is one of the greatest writers in English. His revolutionary vision reaches far into the future.
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The revolutionary history of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
December 8, 2020Like few other composers, Beethoven expresses the will for freedom, the democratic longing of the people.
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A statue in verse for Friedrich Engels’s partner Mary Burns
November 25, 2020There can be little doubt that Mary Burns was instrumental in introducing Engels to the horrendous conditions of the Manchester proletariat. She knew intimately the conditions of families at work and in their typhus- and cholera-stricken...
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