Category: Articles
People on the Move in the 21st Century: Deliberately Silenced and Preferably Unheard
For the sake of our future, our political spaces now must not be abandoned and surrendered to the far right. What needs doing now is to organise and fight for dignity, justice and freedom, as if life depended on it, because it does.
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order
Border externalization does not only entail police cooperation and the supply of equipment and training. It involves a multitude of additional measures and tools to fortify borders more broadly.
Between Gaza and Greece: A Life in Exile
Whatever is rebuilt from the ashes of Gaza’s cities and villages, paid for by the labour of Palestinians like Khalid, exiled from their home to make their own return possible, it will never be what was lost—it will be something new.
Our Fourteen Days on the Freedom Flotilla
The following is a chapter from a diary chronicling Conscience’s voyage with the humanitarian flotillas in October 2025. The diary will be published in its entirety next year.
How to Break a Digital Siege: Gaza’s Web Tree Project as a Model for Resistance
A simple technology deployed under drone surveillance offers lessons for besieged communities everywhere.
Shaping Tomorrow: How China and Africa Are Negotiating a Shared Future
Nigeria, Lagos, September 2025. Street scene at Computer Village in Lagos, a major hub for the mobile phone and electronics trade. ©Taiwo Arifayan Link copied! […]
The Making of a Crisis: Unpacking Sudan’s Neglected War
Kaya, Maban, South Sudan. A red piece of cloth acts as a wall to a makeshift cafe set up opposite a WFP cash distribution centre […]
Behind the Venetian Mask: The Battle Between Overtourism and the Right to Live
Italy, Venice, June 8, 2019: Protest boats on the Grand Canal demand an end to large cruise ships in Venice. The “No Grandi Navi” movement […]
Women in Prison: How It Is With Us
Visual composition: Turning Point. Assata Shakur portrait: Havana, Cuba 1998 ©Adama Delphine Fawundu Link copied! We sit in the bull pen. We are all black. All […]
The Shock of Victory
The biggest problem facing direct action movements is that we don’t know how to handle victory. This might seem an odd thing to say because of a lot of us haven’t been feeling particularly victorious of late.