Quo Vadis? A Few Notes on Painting and Paralysis
To paint, not the thing, but the effect which it produces. —Stéphane Mallarmé Travel Guide, curated by Luana Hildebrandt, is a group exhibit at the IOMO gallery that brings together new works…
Back to the Blocs: 21st Century Nonalignment and the New Cold War
Notes from the 60th anniversary commemorative summit of the Nonaligned Movement in Belgrade, Serbia I expected the Nonaligned summit to be something else, something more hallucinatory. I expected something like what…
Journey to Bessarabia: Dreamlike Photos from Ukraine’s Southwest
Kyiv-based Irish photographer Bradley Stafford takes us on a dreamlike journey to Ukraine’s southwest In Ukraine’s far flung southwest, life doesn’t feel Ukrainian in the way it does in Zakarpattia or…
Belgrade to Host the 60th Anniversary of the Nonaligned Movement
Sixty years ago, Belgrade hosted the first summit of the Nonaligned Movement (NAM). It was a pivotal moment in the history of the Cold War and decolonization that deserves more attention than…
Meet Daria Bagina, Russia’s 23-Year-Old Communist Candidate
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) just had its best electoral showing in years. The party added 15 seats in the Russian State Duma in an election observers say was…
As Greece’s Golden Dawn Trial Comes to a Close, Civil Resistance Remains Critical
With Greece’s Golden Dawn trial set to end on October 7th, writer Remco Van der Meer takes us through the sprawling trial and finds that the street protests that were crucial to…
The Political Life of Monuments: Hagia Sophia One Month On
Over the course of its 1500-year history, the late Roman building known as the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), has served as the setting for many ceremonies, religious, political, and more often than…
Protest in Belarus: Who? Why? With What Aims? — A Politico-Economic Analysis
The wave of debate that has followed the events in Belarus has left out of the account the key questions: why are people taking to the streets of Minsk and other cities,…
An Urgent Call For Solidarity From Belarus
Belarusian workers and representatives of the organized left call for solidarity and support in resisting both Lukashenko and the pro-capital opposition. Comrades! We, Belarusian workers and representatives of the organized left…
An International Quagmire: Genocide and Intervention During the Bosnian War, 1992-1995
What happens when a genocide is carried out in a region of negligible value to the ‘international community’? The end of the Cold War marked a new era of peace and…