Category: Articles
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.
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 […]