Category: Articles
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
Lagos—At 7:30 a.m., the light rail hums above the gridlock, gliding through the haze of exhaust and early heat. Built by the China Civil Engineering […]
The Making of a Crisis: Unpacking Sudan’s Neglected War
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 […]
Behind the Venetian Mask: The Battle Between Overtourism and the Right to Live
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 […]
Women in Prison: How It Is With Us
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 […]
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
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 […]
Reflections on War
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 […]
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
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 […]