Politics

As Gaza burned, Saudi Arabia kept the oil flowing, the arms investments growing, and its strategic alliance with Israel deepening — abandoning Palestinians to violence and impunity.

Deliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of international law

The Kurdish question resurfaces as Erdoğan juggles alliances abroad and repression at home, blurring the lines between foreign policy and domestic authoritarianism.

Without fully embracing decolonial practices, academia’s commitment to transformative change remains superficial at best or a performative maneuver that ultimately sustains the status quo

Spain’s billion-euro agriculture sector depends on undocumented migrant laborers—now evicted en masse, left homeless, and trapped in a system that profits from their exploitation.

As Western governments crack down on Palestine solidarity, universities are increasingly complicit in suppressing critical voices—Joseph Daher’s case is just the latest in a broader pattern of repression.

Anti-dam protests once halted the Yusufeli Dam in Turkey, yet, national capital co-opted these efforts into tools of displacement and control. The struggle, however, persists in new forms.

More than four years after the mass uprising that shook Iraq’s political system, what remains of the movement that once filled Iraq’s streets with demands for change?

With €1,500 and a one-way ticket Cyprus' deportation machine, with EU backing, is pressuring Syrian refugees into ‘voluntary’ returns despite risks and legal protections.

The PIF’s rapid expansion cements Saudi Arabia’s global position but exposes human rights abuses, financial secrecy, and its role in whitewashing authoritarian rule through sports, AI, and mega-projects.

Syrian queer artist Qaduda reflects on the harrowing, daily experience we went through during the past year: the endless cycle of death and destruction in Palestine, Lebanon, and beyond.

Hope, trauma and negligence in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the regime.

The Syrian popular classes must organise to achieve the initial aspirations of the Syrian revolution.

Announcing their decision to halt the processing of Syrian asylum applications, they have sparked panic among many Syrians.

A testimony from Damascus on the historic moments of Assad's fall.

how can we arrive at a condition in which a struggle for a democratic, inclusive and open Syrian polity and society comes to presuppose and to prescribe a struggle against Israel’s genocidal ethno-nationalism and vice versa.

Decades of suffocation dissolve with every shattered prison door.

The act of rebuilding is deeply symbolic. In the face of destruction, it serves as a defiant assertion of belonging and resilience, even when assurances of safety are absent.

*This short comic was originally published on the author's instagram account @gadzooks_bazooka. It has been resized and republished with permission. 

We Germans remember the Shoah with guilt, but refuse to confront our complicity in a present-day genocide. What does 'never again' truly mean?

A law deeming the UN agency a ‘terror group’ raises global concerns over humanitarian missions.

The role of migrant workers in the anti-coup movement in Myanmar shows how migration can be a transformative and revolutionary phenomenon.

Over the past two decades, processes of exclusion and necropolitical governance have intensified. This interview highlights the impact of global political shifts on twenty-first century revolutionary activism.

It is tempting to call what is happening in Bangladesh a revolution. There is often a fine line between a revolution and a counter-revolution. Bangladesh is hanging on that tightrope today.

Recent violent attacks against Syrian refugees in Turkey reveal a deep discontent with the country’s politics. A Turkish journalist explains why.

Syrian writer Rasha Abbas and Palestinian artist Muhammad Jabali, in conversation with Diana Abbani, discuss the evolving dynamics and narratives shaping Berlin, a city once envisioned as an Arab cultural hub.

Let’s turn a moment of potential despair into an exercise of love. What many white queer feminists lack in solidarity with Palestine here in Germany is Love for everyone.

Recent escalations in the Democratic Republic of Congo have displaced millions and remained largely unnoticed, despite the country's crucial role in supplying minerals that power the world.

Urbanization in Palestine, much like in the US, still relies on patterns of dispossession and violence against indigenous communities, as it is argued in Hugill's book "Settler Colonial City."

Recent unmasking of influence operations revealed, once again, the extent of the efforts by the Israeli state in trying to win the hearts and minds of key audiences.