Category: Editorials
The Colonial Present: By Any Means Necessary
Eighty years ago this month, 90 delegates gathered in Manchester’s Chorlton Town Hall to declare war on imperialism. The Fifth Pan-African Congress of October 1945 […]
The Earth Under Siege
The year 2025 must be the year we reject militarism, but not only with our tax money and feet on the ground at protests. We must also fight against the mentality we are asked to accept
Housing Crisis, One Year On
In June 2021, EU members met in Lisbon to pledge to combat homelessness. They formed a platform whose goal is to eliminate the social blight […]
Between Headlines and History
This year, perhaps more than our first year online, has tested our commitment to slow news journalism and in-depth reporting. We have resisted asking the question that drives the breaking news: what happened today that everyone should know?
The End of Liberal Democracy
In the opening scene of her book The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir describes a group of revolutionary intellectuals celebrating the New Year’s Eve of 1944 […]
Reclaiming Space: Digital Dissent in the Face of Surveillance
Turning Point aims to be part of building the free, principled, and independent media that our highly mediated and digitized societies need. As more and more media outlets and social networks fall under the control of reactionary billionaires and governing circles, we firmly believe this is among the key freedom struggles in the digital realm.
The Unfinished Rhyme of History
The saying history is written by the winners is also partly untrue and certainly defeatist. History is written by the people who make it, not by the people writing the history books.
The State of Women’s Rights in 2025: A Call to Action Against Global Regression
The first quarter of the 21st century has taught us a sobering lesson: our rights are not guaranteed. The struggle for gender equality requires women’s active participation in all realms of life—political, economic, and cultural.
The Changing Syria: Voices From the Ground
The Arab Spring in 2011 being a distant memory in many of the countries engulfed by the protest wave, in Syria, the long road to freedom appears now significantly shorter than a few months ago.
Beyond Rhetoric: Migration is not a Threat
In December, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, also known as Frontex, stated that the number of people crossing borders without documents fell by […]