3:AM Brasil: Lulismo
This biography of Lula da Silva, President of Brazil clearly likes the man, but is very unsure about his politics and what he has and hasn’t achieved. In this Richard Bourne reflects the doubts and criticisms of much of the international movement(s) for social justice. In the process he raises a series of questions as to what might be meant by ‘social democracy’, ‘progressive politics’ and the ‘centre left’, while making clear that such labels have to be placed against the specifics of Brazilian history, both political and economic.
John Barker takes in Richard Bourne‘s Lula of Brazil.
3:AM Reloaded
What you (may have) missed on 3:AM this week: Fiction by Robb Todd, Nina Rapi and Alan McCormick & Jonny Voss Poetry by Zachari J. Popour Non-fiction: Andrew Stevens on Loop and Sophie Parkin‘s Sohoitis Reviewed: Max Dunbar on Moral Relativism and Susan Tomaselli on The Kissing Bug Interviewed: Sophie Erskine talks to Alice Notley […]
Three Poems
Soon enough
the cockroaches
will claim our bones
as the new frontier
and it won’t be pretty
it won’t be marilyn monroe’s dress
tempting night
over a NYC subway grate
with its iconic sexuality
it will be norma jeane mortenson
having chased the itch
cold bloated bruised
and all too human on the slab
By Zachari J. Popour.
Sohoitis XII: Teenage Angst on the Riverbank
I couldn’t live anywhere that wasn’t near a river. I have a need to see the tug and flow of the river every day, of course I don’t need to but I want to. It fufills a longing in me, excites me childishly, whether late at night, The Thames, fat and black in Vauxhall, displaying the whorish lights of London across its swelling belly, or young and bright rushing with the daylight energy of speeding police and fireboats, or tourist cruisers. It thrills me, absorbing me in its natural free wonder.
Sophie Parkin celebrates Mole, Ratty and Toad on the riverbank.