Category: Articles
Podcast: From Italy to the US, Small Town Communities Unite Against Data Centers
Who’s torching the driverless taxis? How many AI features can people swallow before Google gets socialized? And why is kicking ICE out of neighborhoods a union issue? In this Turning Point conversation, we explore the new horizons of labor struggles with Sarah Jaffe.
When the Cloud Moves West: How China’s Data Center Expansion Is Transforming Rural Lives
“There is less grass now, and every year it becomes harder to keep enough for the animals.” Naran, 47, whose name has been changed to […]
The Story of a Shutdown: How Trump’s Global Offensive Against ‘Antifa’ Drove Autistici/Inventati Offline
On August 26, late afternoon, a screenshot of a tweet reached the members of Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an Italian tech collective, shattering at once their years-long […]
“Self-Defense on All Levels:” How an Autonomous Athens Neighborhood Beat a €15M Eviction Plan
When a quadcopter’s buzz cuts through the August night above Athens’s Prosfygika housing block, it does not raise eyebrows anymore. In front of the neighborhood’s […]
Cranes, Capital and Coercion: The Dark Side of Belgrade’s Real Estate Boom
Belgrade’s housing market has lurched from one shock to another in recent years. Property prices began increasing during the Covid-19 pandemic, then soared in 2022 […]
What Does Jared Kushner’s Luxury Project Have to Do With the Albanian Mafia and Transatlantic Cocaine Trade?
In January 2019, a group of Albanian businessmen and intermediaries, as revealed by BIRN Albania’s investigative reports, gathered on the idyllic Caribbean island of Aruba. […]
Podcast: Mourning, Mobilizing, and New Forms of Labor Resistance
Who’s torching the driverless taxis? How many AI features can people swallow before Google gets socialized? And why is kicking ICE out of neighborhoods a union issue? In this Turning Point conversation, we explore the new horizons of labor struggles with Sarah Jaffe.
Unemployment, Exclusion, and Lay-offs of Women from the Workplace under Crisis Conditions in Iran
High inflation rates, economic recession, war, and an internet shutdown lasting over two months have placed severe pressure on Iran’s labour market. The consequences have been particularly grave for women, leading to widespread layoffs and dismissals.
“The Robot Helps, But It’s Not the Same as Someone Staying:” AI, Aging, and the New Frontline of Emotional Labor in China
Every afternoon around four o’clock, Mr. Huang lowers himself carefully into the same worn armchair beside the window of his nursing home in Hangzhou, a […]
“They Came at Night”: Inside the State Trafficking System Between Tunisia and Libya
In this landscape, European funding enters the system as a resource to be contested. The result is not stabilization, but a reconfiguration of conflict along new lines, where migration control becomes part of the struggle.