Blakians street scholars Stephen Micalef’ and Helen Elwes..… join me today to talk about Blake. Steve started the Brixton Poets – a free, weekly poetry night in the city back in the mid 80’s to the mid 90’s .
Helen is a visual artist. And they both Directors of the William Blake congregation.
Music; ‘Let The Slave’ by Mike Westbrook, The Westbrook Blake(1980).
‘Nutopia’ by Meg Lee Chin – album ‘Piece and Love’.
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We explore the nature of Jewish and Christian (which was it’s predecessor)Zionist ideolgy, and how the Capitalists, Far Right and NeoCon’s have also come to embrace it. Yodet interviews Tony Greenstein. A British left-wing activist, writer, Anti-fascist, former squatter, and founding member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Greenstein is opposed to Zionism which he says is a racist and supremacist ideology.’
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Tony Greenstein book is below.
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