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A statement from a group of architects, urbanists, thinkers, and citizens in defense of the zad and this unique experience of living the future.

"We are calling on you to take solidarity actions everywhere, it could be holding demos at your local French embassy or consulate, or taking actions against any suitable symbol (corporate or otherwise) of France!"

In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the seventh part of a series of articles analyzing this account, Eric Toussaint looks at the disastrous agreement Varoufakis signed with the Eurogroup in February 2015. 

A virtual guide to Eric Hazan's A Walk Through Paris.

A reading list of French history and revolutionary thought to commemorate the publication of Eric Hazan's A Walk Through Paris.

There are few urbanists today who know their city as intimately as Paris’s popular historian, Eric Hazan.

The ZAD will not disappear. We live here, we are rooted in this piece of countryside, we will not leave.

Capitalism needs teachers. Teachers are learning that they don’t need capitalism.

It is imperative that we succeed in defending the ZAD just as it is imperative that we succeed in defending the SNCF, the universities, and all the public services, against Emmanuel Macron and the world that he represents

"We can’t accept that dwellings and spaces of activities which have nurtured the experience of the zad and are necessary to its future will be destroyed by a new police operation. We invite those who support the future of the zad to organize accordingly."

Novelist Wang Anyi casts an ironic glance on the transformation of gender relations in China during the 1980s and 90s. 

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