Once again the savage murder of young civilians is being used as a political ploy by hardliners and extremists on both sides of this asymmetric conflict
Manolis Glezos, famous for tearing down the Swastika from the Acropolis in 1941, will take his seat in a European Parliament populated with neo-Nazis
Saturday’s protest in Rome was the latest in a series of actions around a common project. What can organizers elsewhere learn from Italy’s movements?
Only by directly targeting the structural, ideological and psychological mechanisms that sustain the rule of capital can we begin to recover a sense of social solidarity
Greece’s so-called recovery
Coining alternatives to capitalism
Towards a global state of control?
Don’t be fooled by the sight of protests in Venezuela: this time the anti-democratic villains are not in government but in the US-backed opposition
The Intercept can deal a major blow to the ideological apparatus of the security state — but how far can it go in attacking the privileges of the 1%?
In these times of crisis, it is crucial to remember that the seeds of a better society already lie embedded in the contradictions of the current one
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