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Closing down democratic space is what is really counter-revolutionary

Brent Meersman by Brent Meersman 11 January 201211 January 2012

Private and unpublished correspondence by the South African poet Roy Campbell recently came into my possession. In a letter to Francis C. Slater, written in Rome sometime between September 1938 and February 1939, Campbell writes that “journalists are the greatest Social Poison the world has yet seen”. He goes on: “It is a treat to […]

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