1 post published by Simon Elmer during August 2025| A Communist in Hong Kong
If it were announced to you that the enemy had invaded your cities, your castles, your lands; had ravished your wives and your daughters and profaned your temples — who among you would not fly to a…| A Communist in Hong Kong
Where angels look down from flying buttresses On the Cathedral of Our-Lady of Reims, The surplus labour of ten generations Has been carved into statues of saints and sovereigns Who condemned bonded…| A Communist in Hong Kong
4 posts published by Simon Elmer during June 2025| A Communist in Hong Kong
In the upper reaches of Tiger Leaping Gorge, Where the rapids of Jinsha River cut their way Between mountains of unmelting snow In a torrent of gold water and silver spray, And the shadowed cliffs …| A Communist in Hong Kong
1. An Extremist, Minority Government In Part Two of The Road to Wigan Pier, first published in 1937, George Orwell wrote at length about the threat of fascism in England. He was out in his reckonin…| A Communist in Hong Kong
Her eyes were the empty buds of a beech tree in the autumn, Her lips the honeyed sapwood beneath the curled bark of her skin, The dark down on her forearms were the stripes on a tiger’s coat, Her w…| A Communist in Hong Kong
Case Studies in Estate Regeneration: Demolition, Privatisation and Social Cleansing by Simon Elmer Hardback: £40.00 Paperback: £25.00 Look Inside Description Created in its current fo…| A Communist in Hong Kong
The Housing Crisis: Finance, Legislation, Policy, Resistance by Simon Elmer Hardback: £35.00 Paperback: £20.00 Look Inside Description First published between 2015 and 2019 on the web…| A Communist in Hong Kong
XXXXXXXXTatami mat XXXXXXXXSix feet by three XXXXThe length and breadth of a body XXXXBuilding block of the residence XXXXOn which the residents recline XXXXUnit of its composition Rationalisation …| A Communist in Hong Kong
An autumn leaf Falls from a tree To the moss floor Of the forest Red stars glinting In a green sky Heap of colour Which two women Wielding twig brooms Will sweep away. — Kyoto, December 2024 • • • …| A Communist in Hong Kong
‘We would have brought architecture back to its proper calling, as the art of settlement, in which people build their shelters side by side, and at the same time create the public spaces that are t…| A Communist in Hong Kong
There’s the hill on which, fifty years past, I crashed my bike, swerving — said the driver Who put us both in the back of his car — Towards the road. Towards the trees! — I lied, Nursing my grazed …| A Communist in Hong Kong
Sitting in a Hong Kong cemetery Reading to the dead Chinese poetry In translation by an American Who calls petrol ‘gas’, trainers ‘sneakers’, And motorways ‘highways’ — to Hell or Heaven? Alas, Ame…| A Communist in Hong Kong
The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy? — December 2024 by Simon Elmer Paperback: £15.00 Look Inside Description The narrative of ‘Stop the Boats’ has successf…| A Communist in Hong Kong
Architecture is Always Political: A Communist History — November 2024 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £35.00 Paperback: £17.50 Look Inside Description Written between 2016 and 2019, before t…| A Communist in Hong Kong
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden 1. What is a Jew? ‘Their barbaric acts are acts of evil. There are not two sides to …| A Communist in Hong Kong