‘To free ourselves is to trespass, and to transform. It is through a creation of the new that that which has not yet existed begins to exist. To free yourself is to trespass. To trespass is to exist. To free ourselves is to exist.’ Augusto Boal, Theatre of the...
On July 6, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, celebrated his 83rd birthday in Ladakh, the Himalayan region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. On the other side of the world’s highest mountain range sits Lhasa, the Tibetan capital that he fled in 1959...
‘Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance.’ Mao Zedong For all the book’s flaws, Albert Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus remains one of the best encapsulations of what it means to engage in political struggle. Faced with insurmountable adversity, in...
Workshop, assembly line, machine, work card, overtime, wages … They’ve trained me to become docile Don’t know how to shout or rebel How to complain or denounce Only how to silently suffer exhaustion – Xu Lizhi, ‘I Fall Asleep, Just Standing Like...
At 4pm on 9 September 1976, Chinese state radio announced that Chairman Mao Zedong had passed away shortly after midnight. The 16-hour delay likely had something to do with the uncertainty the Communist Party (CPC) feared the news might precipitate: theNew York Times...
