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Culture and National Liberation, by Amílcar Cabral
RED reproduces below Amílcar Cabral’s speech Culture and National Liberation. Cabral was the leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), leading the organisation through the war of national liberation in Guinea-Bissau. James R. Bell, … Continue reading
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Tagged -anti-imperialism, Africa, Amilcar cabral, Analysis, anti-racism, art, Article, capitalism, class war, Culture and national liberation, Guinea-bissau
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Caliban: Notes Toward a Discussion of Culture in Our America, by Roberto Fernández Retamar [Part II]
We are descended from Valencian fathers and Canary Island mothers and feel the inflamed blood of Tamanaco and Paramaconi coursing through our veins; we see the blood that fell amid the brambles of Mount Calvary as our own, along with that shed by the naked and heroic Caracas as they struggled breast to breast with the gonzalos in their iron-plated armor. Continue reading
Cuba Vive! Brigade, 2015: the Casa de las Américas
The Casa de las Américas (or “House of the Americas”) was founded by Haydée Santamaría, four months after the victory of the Cuban Revolution. Originally, the organisation was founded as a publishing house and information centre. Its political purpose was to develop … Continue reading
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Caliban: Notes Toward a Discussion of Culture in Our America, by Roberto Fernández Retamar [Part I]
RED reproduces below the first three parts of the essay Caliban: Notes Toward a Dicussion of Culture in Our America – ‘A Question’, ‘Toward the History of Caliban’ and ‘Our Symbol’ – by the Cuban poet, essayist and critic Roberto Fernández Retamar. … Continue reading
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Not Considered in Poems of Pushkin, by Bisan Abu Khaled
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The Yenan Forum, by James R. Bell [Part IV]
A Cultural Army: Populist Art vs. Fine Art Fig. 9: Still from Der Fuehrer’s Face (1943), populist cartoon.
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Tagged Analysis, art, Article, China, Chinese communism, communism, cultural army, dialectical materialist, Essay, James R. Bell, leninist, mao, Mao's poetry, maoist, marxist, populist vs fine art, proletariat, RED, revolution, revolutionary art, socialism, socialist, the class character of art, the role of the artist, The Yenan Forum, unity of form and content
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The Yenan Forum, by James R. Bell [Part III]
A Cultural Army: The Class Character of Art What Mao outlines as the practices necessary for a revolutionary artist to undertake, both stem from &, inevitably, lead toward an analysis of art based upon class. As an ideological form within … Continue reading
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‘Sweet and fair, she craves not Spring for herself alone, To be the harbinger of Spring she is content.’ Mao Tse-Tung, Ode to the Plum Blossom (1961). The history of … Continue reading
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