By Owen Schalk
nearly ten years later
look at me here analysing
still distraught and debating
sympathising synthesising
regretting and remembering
and time
just passing
“Nearly Ten Years Later (For Grenada)” by Merle [...]
By Owen Schalk
Much of West Africa continues to be dominated by the mechanisms of global neocolonialism. This neocolonialism is political (see the French hand in the murder of Burkinabé president Thomas Sankara, or the American role in the coup [...]
By Owen Schalk
I first read Robert Fisk’s Pity the Nation in the summer of 2017. I read it while working an unsurprisingly drab office job, the demands of which were so tedious that I often waited giddily at my desk for the next fifteen-minute [...]
By Owen Schalk
Henry Norman Bethune was an accomplished surgeon, a communist internationalist and a forgotten hero of Canadian history. As a member of the Communist Party of Canada he fought with anti-fascist forces in Spain and later volunteered [...]