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Eleanor Kasrils’ Great Escapes

Aug 24, 2024 | msn.com | Marcus Barnett

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Eleanor Kasrils’ Great Escapes

Aug 24, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Marcus Barnett

When South African shop assistant Eleanor Logan was arrested in August 1963 under the apartheid government’s 90-day detention laws, it shocked the genteel world of Durban bohemians she belonged to. A white single mother with parents well connected with South Africa’s artistic world, the secret police seized her from her workplace of Grigg’s Books under suspicion of being associated with the African National Congress’s (ANC) struggle against the white supremacist regime in Pretoria.
Solidarity With Amrit Wilson

Apr 26, 2024 | msn.com | Marcus Barnett

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Solidarity With Amrit Wilson

Apr 26, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Marcus Barnett

A veteran Indian political organiser has been banned from entering India and labelled a threat to the state for writing an article for Tribune, it can be revealed.
Britain’s Secret Anti-Apartheid Militants

Feb 20, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Marcus Barnett

At an East London cinema last summer, several dozen people in their late sixties and early seventies took to the stage. After being beckoned forwards by the compere, the veteran South African revolutionary Ronnie Kasrils, the shying group of mostly retirees received repeated standing ovations from loved ones, politicians, and diplomats filling out the private screening.
Life in the Century’s Midnight

Jan 27, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Marcus Barnett

In summer 1944, Antonia Lehr and two of her friends were deported from Vienna to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Posing as a foreign worker recently married to an Austrian, Lehr was in reality a Viennese Jew and a Communist militant, specialising in dangerous propaganda work among German soldiers in Paris. Her two companions were also Communist underground activists.
Amy Pennington: TOPS — Corridor8

Jan 11, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Amrit Randhawa |Marcus Barnett |Sabine Sharp

Things are feeling pretty dire for trans communities in the UK at the moment: while we wait for transphobic violence to be taken seriously and for an end to the political grandstanding over trans people’s access to public spaces, the waiting times for transition healthcare continue to spiral.
TIDAL: Relax into 2050: Artfly — Corridor8

Jan 9, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Michael A Orr |Amrit Randhawa |Marcus Barnett

‘An adventure in an optimistic future’ is the catchline Signal Film & Media are using to promote Relax into 2050, an interactive exhibition by Artfly exploring Barrow’s coastal environment and the future. It is one of this year’s series of TIDAL commissions managed by Signal Co-Director, Loren Slater.
The Last Workers’ Castle

Jan 8, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Marcus Barnett

A stone’s throw from the British Museum’s imperial plunder stands a monument to an opposing source of power. Congress House, which has served as the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) for over half a century, is one of the great physical testaments of the British labour movement.
Blue Futures: In conversation with Suzy O'Hara — Corridor8

Dec 12, 2023 | corridor8.co.uk | Christie Yung-hei Chan |Amrit Randhawa |Marcus Barnett |Uma Breakdown

Christie Chan speaks to Dr Suzy O’Hara about Blue Futures, an interactive multimedia exhibition at The Word: National Centre for the Written Word in South Shields, featuring three projects: BE THE SEA, Sound Dig, and Renewable Blue. Curated and commissioned by O’Hara, this exhibition illuminates the dynamic and intricate relationship between humans and water in the coastal communities of South Tyneside.