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"Am I dead?": A witness's testimony from Gaza
One day under the Israeli aggression on Gaza -
Scholars, students and activists in the UK stand in solidarity with Palestinians and call for an end to British complicity in genocide
Over 3500 individuals have signed a statement proclaiming their solidarity with Palestinians and denouncing Israel's siege in Gaza. -
Q&A with Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory
Antony Loewenstein details his process and reasons for writing The Palestine Laboratory, with an insight on the events that have unfolded since the book's release. -
With Tempered Reason: On New College of Florida & the Georgia Guidestones
New College Alum V Conaty reflects on Ron DeSantis’s cultural takeover of the bastion of progressive education, and the importance of sites of free thinking in red states. -
Beyond Mechanical Reproduction
Dominique Routhier on the Situationists' critique of automation -
Red Africa and Revolutionary Black Politics | Kevin Ochieng Okoth and Ashok Kumar
Kevin Ochieng Okoth discusses the key ideas in his new book Red Africa: Reclaiming Black Politics. -
Look within: literary diaries and the culture of narcissism
Our appetite for literary diaries has never been greater, with TikTok and Twitter feeds filled with snippets of writing from Virginia and extracts from Sylvia Plath’s food diary. But what can the contemporary desire for the diaries of others tell us about our individualistic society? -
Fascists Love Freedom
Alberto Toscano argues that understanding contemporary fascism requires undoing a knee-jerk identification of fascism with a monolithic, bureaucratic state and its opposition to liberalism in all forms. -
A Statement from Berlin Culture Workers for Palestine
An open letter from Berlin's cultural workers calling on Germany’s cultural institutions and workers to oppose historical injustice and ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza. -
The War on Gaza and Israel’s Fascism Debate
Western critics of Israel's apartheid policies and far-right government are frequently accused of antisemitism, but leftist and left-liberal Israelis have been decrying the country's descent into fascism for years. In this article, Alberto Toscano argues that fascism is embedded in the logic of Israel's colonial project. -
Arming Apartheid: Ghada Karmi & Antony Loewenstein
Ghada Karmi and Antony Loewenstein join Eleanor Penny to discuss Palestine and the Israeli State.
