'In Your Light, Shall We See Light' - A Voice from Columbia University

"For nearly two years I have, like you, seen and unseen and seen again all the images of murdered children, murdered mothers, murdered fathers, in Gaza. And then, there has been the lesser, albeit significant pain, of seeing my alma mater Columbia University being torn apart."

✍🏽 Hannah Lillith Assadi
📷 Mukta Joshi

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Between Headlines and History

"In July we invite our readers to reflect with us, without the pressure of the daily goings-on, on what lays behind the headlines. If we zoom out from the everyday flow of information, can we see where all these stories are headed towards?"

✍️🏽 📷 Editorial Board

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Reflections on War

"War is once more a problem on the order of the day. We live in constant expectation of it. The danger is perhaps imaginary, but the fear is real and is itself a factor of importance."

✍🏻 An essay by Simone Weil analysing war in its modern form and its relation to the struggle of the working class toward emancipation. First published in the November 1933 issue of ‘La Critique Sociale’; this English translation was published in the February 1945 issue of ‘Politics’.

📷 Visual composition: Turning Point. Photo: Public domain (Simone Weil, photographer unknown).

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Utopia, Not Futurism

"If you don’t do the impossible, we’re going to wind up with the unthinkable—and that will be the destruction of the planet itself. And that impossible is to work toward a very distinct notion of what constitutes a truly liberated as well as ecological society."

✍️🏽 A transcript of the speech the American philosopher and ecologist Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) delivered on August 24, 1978, at the Toward Tomorrow Fair in Amherst, Massachusetts.

📷 Visual composition: Turning Point.

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The Shock of Victory

"A lot of us haven’t been feeling particularly victorious of late. The war will end, of course, but that’s just because wars always do. No one is feeling they contributed much to it. I want to suggest an alternative interpretation."

✍🏽 David Graeber
📷 Visual composition: Turning Point. David Graeber portrait ©Goldsmiths University

Originally published in Rolling Thunder # 5 (February 26th, 2008).

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Women in Prison: How It Is With Us

"Women can never be free in a country that is not free. We can never be liberated in a country where the institutions that control our lives are oppressive. We can never be free while our men are oppressed."

✍🏽 Assata Shakur was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. She was captured in 1973 and held as a political prisoner until 1979 (one year after this article was written), when she was freed by a unit of the Black Liberation Army. Upon her release, Shakur fled to Cuba where she has been exiled to this day.

📷 Visual composition: Turning Point. Assata Shakur portrait: Havana, Cuba 1998, ©Adama Delphine Fawundu

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Housing Crisis, One Year On

The housing crisis continues to fuel inequality, putting millions at risk everywhere in Europe, including the UK. This is not just a market problem but a generational and political challenge.

✍🏽 Editorial Board
📷 Maryam Ashrafi - Street art by Samione

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Behind the Venetian Mask: The Battle Between Overtourism and the Right to Live

Venice’s housing crisis is no accident but the result of deliberate choices made by the local administration. As the city empties and becomes a showroom, acts of resistance and reclamation carve out space for a different future.

✍🏽 Anna Irma Battino
📷 Alexandra Boni

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Housing Politics and Human Response After a Disaster Through the Lens of Anthony Micallef

In Marseille, Anthony Micallef revisits Rue d’Aubagne, where a building collapse in 2018 left eight dead and 4700 residents displaced. In conversation with photo editor Alice Santinelli, they reflect on the current housing conditions of those affected. This tragic event, the responsibility of politicians and particularly lawmakers, has stirred reflection on how urbanization models can both engender and resist social inequality.

Marseille has a population of 900,000. I'm trying to tell the story of a part of the Marseillais who will never feature in publications on Instagram or elsewhere, because they don't fit the image “Marseille bébé” we want to give of the city.

✍🏽 Alice Santinelli
📷 Anthony Micallef

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The Struggle for Housing From 1315, One of the Largest Organized Squatted Blocks in Spain

In the heart of Collado Villalba, a municipality located in the northwestern mountains of Madrid, more than a hundred people survive squatting without water in two blocks of public property.

✍🏽📷 Asamblea de Vivienda de Villalba

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The Earth Under Siege

The year 2025 must be the year we reject militarism, but not only with our tax money and feet on the ground at protests. We must also fight against the mentality we are asked to accept.

✍🏽 Editorial Board
📷 Rizek Abdel Jawad

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How to Drive the World Over the Precipice:
Overshoot by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton

We have reached a historical hinge point where the 1.5 °C safety limit is in the process of being broken. New fronts of climate struggle are emerging as "overshooting" goals becomes the dominant ideology of climate policy.

✍🏽 Ville Lähde
📷 Freepik

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Downwinders:
The Forgotten Stories of America’s First Atomic Bomb

Half a million people lived within a 150-mile radius of Trinity in 1945 and Trinity’s residual fallout traveled as far as Canada, Mexico, and 46 U.S. states. Only 15% of the plutonium in the bomb fissioned, while the remaining radioactive fallout blew downwind into surrounding communities and seeped into the soil. Residents of the area described black ash raining down, cows turning white, and white snow-like debris falling from the sky that children rubbed on their faces and caught on their tongues until they realized it was too hot to be snow. Individuals were not warned or evacuated, and exposure rates in the area were “10,000 times higher than currently allowed.”

✍🏽 📷 Sofie Hecht

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Our reporter Henri Sulku is currently on board the Conscience, one of the ships of the Freedom Flotilla sailing towards Gaza. Around one hundred people are on board, including healthcare professionals and members of the press, carrying medical supplies.

Previous flotillas attempting to break the siege have been intercepted by the Israeli military, which has shown reckless disregard for human life and international law. Despite the risks, this journey is part of the broader story of Gaza’s starvation and occupation, and of those committed to ending them.

You can track the ship's journey live on the Flotilla Tracker website. We’re also sharing daily updates, interviews with the doctors on board, and reports from the journey on Instagram and on our new TikTok account.

Follow us as the Freedom Flotilla sails to break the siege and defend press freedom.

The ship Conscience has been unlawfully intercepted in international waters, and all those on board — including our colleague Henri Sulku — have been abducted by the Israeli military, together with all other members of the Freedom Flotilla.

Read our full statement on Turning Point. Picture by Henri Sulku.

Journalism is never a crime.

Our editor Henri Sulku and all international participants on the Freedom Flotilla have been released.
Here's his first update, speaking from Amman, Jordan, just hours after being released from unlawful Israeli detention, in conversation with Ann Wright, one of the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla.