“For nearly a year this place was a headquarters for Islamic State in the region. We do not even want to know what was happening in our house.”
The G20 Parade of Monsters
Hundreds of thousands of activists will take the street of Hamburg to protest a G20 divided between two bad alternatives: status quo or authoritarianism.
Are Barcelona’s ‘superblocks’ a radical challenge to the neoliberal city?
The role of urbanism is to contribute to breaking the ties between the city and the markets and to destabilise the current oppressive system by offering individual and collective tools to realise a participatory democracy, without excluding anyone.
One year at City Plaza in Athens
In the midst of crisis the City Plaza Hotel in Athens has become a positive accommodation model for migrants and refugees. Eleonora Camilli went there to see how life in the former five-star hotel is after exactly one year of occupation.
One Island, Six Armies: Fighting against militarisation in Cyprus
Cyprus is an enduring feature of the Global Militarisation Index’s Top 10. Six armies maintain permanent military presence here, and many more use the island as their unsinkable aircraft carrier. But how did we get here?
With or without the EU? – Brexit as a women’s issue
The costs and possible opportunities of Brexit on gender equality and democracy in the UK.
From the centre of the Mediterranean: “Freedom of movement as a human right”
A conversation with Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo.