Labour rights amid war, forced displacement and mass migration
In wartime, the fight for labour rights is becoming extremely significant as military actions put more risks on employees at the workplace while economic loss often forces the government to decrease the protection of labour rights. Thus, the war has justified neoliberal privatisation policy and cutbacks of the social sector for many governments. At the […]
Seeking Refuge: Between a Weak System and Grassroots Refugee Solidarity
As a result of the Russian-Ukrainian War, millions of Ukrainians have left their country and Europe has seen the largest wave of forced migration since World War II. This has once again raised questions about the fairness of migration policies of European and global institutions. Many symptoms indicate critical problems in the architecture of the […]
The price of war for women: new roles, emerging challenges
Women around the world continue to suffer from injustice and inequality. War deepens not only existing problems of sexualized violence and burden of reproduction but also creates new challenges: displacement, unemployment, or the need to protect one's community. During wartime, women and girls become both victims of aggression, soldiers, activists, refugees, and single mothers. In […]
Beyond Russia: authoritarian regimes and imperialist aggression
The war in Nagorno-Karabakh initiated by Azerbaijan, Turkey’s involvement in Syria, the authoritarian rule in Iran, and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — this incomplete yet indicative list of recent events underscores the escalating trend of imperialistic arbitrariness worldwide in the conditions of non-interference. As part of our “Dialogues of Peripheries” conference, one of the […]
Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people
?????? ??????? | українською | en français | en español | auf Deutsch | in italiano | em português | στα ελληνικ? | v ceštine | na bosanskom | in het Nederlands We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land […]
Why Ukrainians should support Palestinians
How can we look at images of Gaza and not see Mariupol or Bakhmut? As Israel’s assault on Palestine continues, apparent similarities with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grow. Israel’s “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip – cutting off water, electricity and food to more than two million inhabitants – echoes Russia’s intentional destruction of […]
Dialogues of the Peripheries
Languages English Français Español Português English Humanity is facing unprecedented challenges, primarily the climate crisis and the sixth mass extinction of species. Addressing these threats requires global solidarity; however, recently we have witnessed an exacerbation of inter-imperialist confrontations and armed conflicts across the globe. This primarily affects the residents of places constructed as peripheries […]
Spicy political soup of post-Soviet Moldova. Interview with Alexandru Lesanu
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Comparison and Its Discontents: on the Ethics of Post-War Reconstruction
In 2017, I organized an event at the Mansion, a cultural space in Beirut’s Zoqaq el-Blat neighborhood, on the debates surrounding the future reconstruction of Syria[1]. At the time, many architects and developers in Lebanon were looking at Syria’s reconstruction as a lucrative, exciting opportunity. They not only saw the rebuilding of Syria as a great […]
Transnational feminist solidarity with the Woman Life Freedom uprising in Iran
Sign the manifesto Following a year of struggles and war, and to mark the one-year anniversary of the feminist uprising in Iran, a group of feminists united in the Transnational Feminist Assembly located in France initiated the following manifesto, published in several languages. The Transnational Feminist Assembly is a feminist self-education network that aims to […]
