THIS intriguingly entitled pamphlet by Richard Pithouse is part of the Thinking Freedom series produced by New Frame, a South African-based social justice media project committed to “accurate, careful and credible news.”

As a literary form, the pamphlet has a long and important history, serving the purpose of informing the public directly of current issues and often attacking Establishment ideologies in ways delivered today through social media and Pithouse charts the historical inter-relationship of Christianity, colonialism, capitalism and racism through the ongoing establishment of European hegemony over the world.

He uses the stepping stones of key moments deriving from the very same month in 1492 when Columbus set off on the great New World treasure hunt — with Papal carte blanche — the Jews were driven out of Spain and the emergence of a European ideological project was established.