Eduardo Galeano, the historian from Uruguay, reminds us of a simple etymology, that the word “record” as in the record of the past, derives from Latin, to pass again through the heart (“cordis”).

The Red May Day and the Green May Day

As a woman and a feminist she observes the production of the commons in the everyday labours of reproduction - the washing, cuddling, cooking, consoling, sweeping, pleasing, cleaning, exciting, mopping, reassuring, dusting, dressing, feeding children, having children and caring for the sick and the elderly.

Anti-fascism and the Left's Euro-Secular Arrogance

We have said the meeting of Caliban and Trinculo under the gaberdine is the beginning of the motley crew. We should explain the significance of the term. In the habits of Royal Authority in Renaissance England, the "motley" was a multicoloured garment, often a cap, worn by a jester who was permitted by the king to make jokes, even to tell the truth, to power.

The book is trying to put some freedom back into history telling us that it could have been otherwise. We call this human agency. The theory is something like this. It’s human history, we’re humans, history is something we make with our deeds and words. This is where free-will rubs up against determinism. As soon as you put class into the theory it begins to make sense: the ruling class is determined to exploit us, so naturally it says that it can’t help it – the steam hammer is stronger than John Henry, you can’t stand in the way of progress, and so on. That’s the determinism. On the other hand, the working-class will be free. We are not cogs in a wheel; we have not forgotten the good old wooden shoe. We do have choices.