Common Cause Hashim Shafiq empties its load

empties its load

Stefan Hertmans

”Searle's poetry is characterised by a passionate political drive as a celebration of revolution that scans the continents of the world

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Common Cause Hashim Shafiq empties its loadPoetry on the history of utopia, revolution and hope, introduced by Booker Prize winning author John Berger. "Communism," wrote Brecht, "is the simple idea so hard to achieve." Common Cause tells the hard story of this simple idea, from the Garden of Eden to the French Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Common Cause is a history of the defeated, a book about enthusiasm and illusion, heroes and martyrs, saints and sinners. It is an epic, a