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Leggi in italiano Almost one year after October 7th, the need to build an anti-war movement is becoming more and more urgent. The discussions, confrontations, and even clashes within social movements about what is at stake are all the more urgent at a time when Minister Piantedosi is prohibiting the national demonstration planned for October 5th because, in his words, the …

→ Leggi l’editoriale in italiano In more or less recent times, the call for “resistance” has echoed throughout different mobilizations in Italy. It resonated in June 1960, during the revolt against the national convention of the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) party, which started in Genoa and spread throughout the peninsula. Behind the slogan “Now and forever resistance”, which led …

→ Originally published in Italian ‘Bringing the war home’ was the slogan of the peace movement at the time of the Vietnam War. Today, it is the watchword—albeit with a very different meaning—of European rulers. To them, war should make it possible to govern the disorderly European home in an altogether disorderly world—a world of empires without imperialisms, and transitions …

Recession winds blow almost everywhere. The war relentlessly claims its price in blood and devastation. There are no longer safe spaces to smoothly accumulate capital or to peacefully lead one’s life. The highest price of this situation is paid by poor people, women and men, workers and migrants, and by all those who want to assert their freedom from dominion …

by MASHA HASSAN Pakistan is hit with a devastating climate catastrophe displacing around 33 million people where Balochistan and Southern Sindh provinces remain the most affected. Here we publish a conversation with Mariam Magsi* a multidisciplinary artist who is born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, and now resides in Canada. Magsi’s family has been on the ground since the start …

→ Italian Despite no longer appearing in headlines or smartphone feeds, the war in Ukraine continues and continues to produce its effects. Those who spoke of a great clash for Western values, for the preservation of Europe, and for the ultimate defense of freedom, seem almost to have lost interest in the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian resistance, the daily deaths …

→ First published in Italian on June 8. The time is out of joint— O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right! Nay, come, let’s go together. Shakespeare, Hamlet   The war has sparked stupor for what appears still possible today. On the one hand, we should not be surprised: if we look at events with non-European …

Italian Five years ago, the first transnational feminist strike took place. The strike triggered a process of politicization that irreversibly changed the expectations of millions of women and LGBTQ+ people, who gathered around the struggle against male violence as a common project of social subversion. On the occasion of the transnational mobilization against male violence against women on November 27th, …

by VALENTINA MARCONI and STEFANO VISENTIN → Italian Few days ago, the dead bodies of four young women were found in the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan. Frozan Safi, a 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, who took part to the recent protests against Taliban rule, is among them, while the other three women have not been identified yet. The …

«Why can’t we say woman anymore?» is the title of an article by Rosie DiManno shared on Twitter by Margaret Atwood a few days ago. The sharing of the article, which was published in the Canadian newspaper «Toronto Star» (#1 and #2), provoked bitter reactions that put Atwood’s positions, together with J.K. Rowling’s ones, in the ranks of trans-exclusionary radical …