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A red piece of cloth acts as a wall to a makeshift cafe set up opposite a WFP cash distribution centre in the Kaya refugee camp.

The Making of a Crisis: Unpacking Sudan’s Neglected War

Husam MahjoubOctober 15, 2025

In one of its most important facets, Sudan’s war is a war against the revolution that began in December 2018 and endures in the daily […]

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Italy, Venice, June 8, 2019: Protest boats on the Grand Canal demand an end to large cruise ships in Venice.

Behind the Venetian Mask: The Battle Between Overtourism and the Right to Live

Anna Irma BattinoAugust 13, 2025

Venice is a city that floats between two worlds: the imaginary and the real. Today a distance has widened so dramatically between these dimensions that […]

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Assata Shakur portrait on a background of essay papers.

Women in Prison: How It Is With Us

Assata ShakurJuly 30, 2025

We sit in the bull pen. We are all black. All restless. And we are all freezing. When we ask, the matron tells us that […]

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The Shock of Victory

David GraeberJuly 23, 2025

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.

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Murray Bookchin portrait on a composite background of handwritten pages.

Utopia, Not Futurism

Murray BookchinJuly 16, 2025

The following text is a transcript of the speech the American philosopher and ecologist Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) delivered on August 24, 1978, at the Toward […]

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Reflections on War

Simone WeilJuly 9, 2025

War is once more a problem on the order of the day. We live in constant expectation of it. The danger is perhaps imaginary, but […]

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Democracy at Gunpoint: Violence and Power in Mexico’s Elections

Andrea CegnaJune 25, 2025

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.

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Painted Portrait of Abdullah Öcalan along with kalashikovs and combat vests.

The PKK’s Dissolution Paves the Way for a New Era of Radical Democracy

Justus JohannsenJune 11, 2025

The recent call by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan for the dissolution of his party and its protracted armed struggle caused political shock […]

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Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. August 2023

A ‘Historic’ Ruling in the US: Did the West Turn Less Wild for Mercenary Spyware?

Valentina Ramanand & Henri SulkuMay 28, 2025

In May 2019, the US social network corporation Meta detected an unprecedented, “highly sophisticated” cyber attack against its servers in California, US, which manipulated its […]

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Tim Marss' Artistic critique of the state of press freedom in China.

Unfiltered Voices: How Podcasts Are Changing the Conversation in China

Gaia Guatri & Shekufe RanjbarMay 21, 2025

In China, podcasts carve out a rare pocket of freer expression, because they’re consumed privately and spread gradually, giving space for more honest, in-depth conversations. For a generation craving authenticity, that subtlety can be quietly transformative.