Category: Articles
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.
Utopia, Not Futurism
Visual composition: Turning Point. Original photo: Public Domain (Murray Bookchin, photographer unknown) Link copied! The following text is a transcript of the speech the American […]
Reflections on War
Visual composition: Turning Point. Original photo: Public Domain (Simone Weil, photographer unknown) Link copied! War is once more a problem on the order of the […]
Democracy at Gunpoint: Violence and Power in Mexico’s Elections
In the first quarter of 2025, there were 104 incidents of violence against political figures in Mexico. Elections are typically the high point of tensions, and they are influenced by power dynamics that sometimes involve murder.
The PKK’s Dissolution Paves the Way for a New Era of Radical Democracy
A painted portrait of Abdullah Öcalan. ©Joey L. Link copied! The recent call by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan for the dissolution of […]
A ‘Historic’ Ruling in the US: Did the West Turn Less Wild for Mercenary Spyware?
Kawasaki City, Japan, August 2023. ©KENJI WADA Link copied! In May 2019, the US social network corporation Meta detected an unprecedented, “highly sophisticated” cyber attack […]