Tag: war
The Worker is Dead, Long Live the Worker!
May Day once again reminded us that organized labor remains one of the most influential non-state actors on the global arena. From Manila to São Paulo, and from Berlin and Mexico City, millions took the streets as one—and not only for a better wage.
Turbulence in Eastern Mediterranean: How Warships and Warming Seas Strangle Fish and Fishermen
With military tensions soaring, the Eastern Mediterranean is increasingly criss-crossed by military vessels, and at the risk of the same environmental damage seen on its neighboring seas. With world leaders openly talking of a global conflict just round the corner, what is to happen to the seas that we hardly got to know?
Military Spending Growing Fastest in Europe: a 14% Increase in 2025
Global military spending reached a new record high in 2025, driven by armament surge in Central and Western Europe.
From Seas of Solidarity to Circuits of Empire: How Energy Remade the Mediterranean
Far from cradling the Palestinian resistance, Cyprus and Greece are now complicit partners in the surveillance and onslaught of its liberation fighters. How did this corridor of solidarity shift so dramatically?
The Mediterranean at Breaking Point
© Jonathan Cooper Link copied! The alarm was launched on April 5, from somewhere in the Central Mediterranean. A small boat departed from Tajoura, a […]
Podcast: Transnational Feminism And Culture of Life
In this Turning Point magazine conversation, the first of its kind, Japanese, Kurdish, Rohingya, and Palestinian-Lebanese feminists explore how transnational feminism can create genuine security based on life and freedom and challenge what is called the “culture of killing.”
Insisting on Life and Freedom: Transnational Feminism Challenging the Culture of Killing
The time for women is now. Not as victims to be protected by the same systems that endanger them, but as the architects of a civilisation organised around care rather than conquest, interdependence and mutuality rather than domination, and justice rather than the management of injustice.
Iranian Journalist: We Need to Turn Grief Into Resistance
The situation in Iran feels like being trapped between two terrible options, knowing that neither the continuation of the current situation nor a war would offer any hope.
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.
Memories Never Fade
Amel (in yellow pajamas) and Džemil before the war, ca. 1991. Photo courtesy of a private collection / Sniper Alley Photo Link copied! My friend […]