Politics

Since 7 August 2023, the Italian philosopher, theorist and activist Franco Berardo “Bifo” has been keeping track of “Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian farmers and the violence of Tsahal's soldiers against young people imprisoned in the occupied territories or in the Gaza concentration camp.

I’ve been a journalist for more than 25 years, and I have never witnessed a time when editors were so careless when it comes to running stories based on unverified accounts. 

Untold Mag selection of some of the best journalistic pieces on Palestine during the ongoing Israeli attack on Gaza and the West Bank.

In the hours following the attack of Palestinian fighters in the south of Israel, Western observers, bewildered, speculated about why Hamas and the young Palestinians of Gaza, born and bred under siege and bombs, have launched an attack of this magnitude, and right now. Others expressed their surprise at the surprise. 

Thousands of people have landed  in the past few weeks in Lampedusa, closer to Tunisian coasts than Italian ones. The so-called emergency is created by the Italian government for electoral purposes and more repression.

How migrants and asylum seekers, victims of Europe’s violations of human rights, are used as test subjects for tech experimentation

After the killing of 17 years old French Algerian Nahel by police, riots erupted again in France. Violence and social exclusion are rooted in the history of the old colonial power's banlieues, and police repression of urban revolts shows a neo-colonial approach, write sociologist Gülçin Erdi. 

A personal account of what it feels to live in contemporary Ecuador, where violence is part of everyday life, a "death world" where governments leave people to die.

From the war of independence to the 2019 popular movement, the intersectional feminist Amal Hadjadj reflects on the history of feminism in her country, Algeria. New and older generations’ different orientations and priorities, in search for a common ground.

Farah Youssef talks to herself, and to the readers, tracing her feminist path through revolution, exile, activism.

An interview with Jiyan Group about the revolutionary uprising in Iran.

Reflections inspired by Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of indignation.

The Lina Ben Mhenni feminist school is a space where we engage in self-discovery, while we also embark on a collective journey, which lead us to see the Other within ourselves, and simultaneously to see our different and similar realities from an intersectional perspective.

As one of the most marginalised and voiceless communities in Lebanon, Palestinian refugees have been on the frontline of Lebanon’s economic crisis.

An Interview with Lina Isma’il.

“Dear Jina! You will not die. Your name will turn into a symbol”, Jina's family wrote on her tombstone. Her name was then repeated all around the world in streets and cyberspace to encapsulate the density of the revolution: its magical moment.