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The consolidation of Europe’s border regime in Greece

Under Greece’s Nea Demokratia government, the situation for migrants and refugees in the country is rapidly deteriorating — with the EU’s callous support.

Digging for democracy: history and archaeology from below

In building a directly democratic future, we must learn from examples of grassroots historical research and rediscover community approaches to archaeology.

​Women and labor: key struggles in the MENA region

Embodying the intersection of gender and class, women trade union leaders are essential to the goals of ending gender violence and promoting women empowerment.

How to blow up the capitalist realism of fossil capital

Capitalist realist tropes in Andreas Malm’s environmental critique can complement Mark Fisher’s surprisingly scarce engagement with the climate crisis.

Chilean president Boric’s election was a movement victory

The victory of Chile’s new president Gabriel Boric laid bare the interconnectedness of street-level and electoral politics: abandoning one can compromise the other.

The war in Ukraine: no choice but to resist

For many Ukrainians, Russia’s invasion has made talks of neutrality and negotiations redundant. Right now, their focus is on survival and resistance.

​Fighting fascism in the era of late capitalism

Antifascism in the 21st century is about more than merely opposing the fascists in our streets: it is about envisioning and building an anti-capitalist project.

Planting seeds of opposition: Cabral’s cultural front

Amílcar Cabral’s vision of liberation through the creative expression of the oppressed remains central to contemporary anti-colonial struggle.

Earthcare Fieldcast: Clandestine food and peasant struggle in Italy

Earthcare Fieldcast is a podcast that listens into our collective struggles for existence to learn about world-making, earth care and planetary resistance.

Speaking up in defense of language rights

By the end of this century, we will have lost about half of the world’s languages. To protect Indigenous languages under threat, we must defend language rights.