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Gaza: The Habit of Catastrophe
Gaza reaches Europe as a daily bulletin of rubble, hunger and diplomatic concern. The disaster remains intolerable. Our attention has learned to live with it. At half past seven Gaza appears on a kitchen screen somewhere in Britain. A road cut through grey rubble. A woman carrying water. A child holding a saucepan with both hands. The presenter lowers her voice by half a tone, as presenters do when suffering has been placed between the weather and the football. Then the programme moves on. No malice is required. The kettle boils, trains are delayed, interest rates remain disagreeable. The catastrophe has entered the furniture of the morning. It is seen,…
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The Evening Is No Longer Ours
Digital work has erased many borders almost without noise: the right to disconnect tries to put a door back where there is now only a screen. The message at 9.47 Dinner is nearly over. One plate remains on the table, a glass beside it, the sort of domestic disorder that usually means the day has finally loosened its collar. Then the telephone vibrates. The message begins with Quick one. Quick things sent at 9.47 in the evening possess a curious elasticity. They may take three minutes, half an hour, or the rest of the night, especially once the mind has returned to the office and refuses to find its coat…
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April 25: why Liberation still matters
April 25 remembers the end of Nazi-Fascism and the living bond between Resistance, Constitution and democracy in our present. It might look, at first glance, like one of those dates that survive out of habit. A flag, a speech, a few songs carried through a square and then folded away until the following year. Yet April 25 does not quite behave like that. It resists reduction. In Italy, Liberation Day marks the collapse of a regime that had turned obedience into a daily exercise. Not only a dictatorship of uniforms and slogans, but a system that trained people to accept hierarchy as nature, silence as prudence, fear as method. The…
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Censorship without uniforms: how media pressure works today
In Europe, censorship rarely arrives as a ban. It arrives as a lawsuit, a budget cut, platform dependence, and the slow shrinking of independent journalism. In Europe, censorship no longer always looks like censorship. It does not necessarily come as a newsroom raid, a confiscated newspaper, or a journalist dragged away in public. More often, it comes dressed as something ordinary: a legal threat too expensive to answer, a newsroom too fragile to sustain difficult reporting, an advertiser no one wants to irritate, an ownership structure that narrows the range of acceptable speech, or a platform change that quietly pushes serious reporting out of sight. The methods look softer than…
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Across Europe, the city is becoming a luxury
Across Europe, rents have outrun wages. Homes are treated as investments, tourist pressure remakes neighbourhoods, and more people can still work in the city than afford to live in it. Across Europe, the housing problem no longer feels temporary. It has settled into ordinary life. You see it when a room costs what a small flat used to cost. You see it when leaving home is postponed again, when moving closer to work is no longer realistic, when the same income buys less space, less calm, less future than it did a few years ago. Across Europe, housing is no longer just a difficult expense. It is becoming the line…
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Kurds between two fires: from Iran’s borderlands to Kobane
Iranian and Syrian Kurds are being squeezed by repression, siege and proxy war; even the latest voices from PJAK refuse to become anyone’s infantry. There are moments when history does not merely trap a people between two enemies; it presses them into the same vice from opposite directions. That is where Iranian and Syrian Kurds now stand. In Iran, Kurdish opposition groups are being drawn toward the dangerous frontier where political struggle can be turned into military utility. In Syria, Kobane, has once again become the emblem of a community first praised for its resistance to ISIS and then left exposed to siege, infrastructural strangulation and strategic neglect. The histories…
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Democratic Nation: the society that refuses to become a state
In Democratic Nation, Abdullah Öcalan imagines a political community built on pluralism, self-government and grassroots participation. That is precisely what makes it so difficult to tolerate and so easy to target. There is something almost scandalous in Democratic Nation: it dares to ask whether a people can become politically free without first becoming a state. In a world trained to think that sovereignty, borders, bureaucracy and armed institutions are the only serious grammar of politics, Abdullah Öcalan proposes something far more unsettling. He suggests that a nation does not have to harden into a state in order to exist. It can instead organize itself as a political society, plural, self-governing,…
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Kobane: Siege as a Political Weapon Against Civilians
Kobane and Rojava mean logistical isolation, humanitarian crisis and the risk of chaos. Not neutrality, but a clear choice: to stand with civilians under siege. Kobane is not a slogan to wave around: it is a real city, with real people, paying with their own skin for decisions taken elsewhere. And when, in a city under pressure, essential services, water, electricity, communications and supplies are reduced or interrupted, we are not talking about mere “disruption”: we are talking about civilians turned into leverage. That is where our choice lies: not the kind of neutrality that stages itself but the side of civilians. Why this piece takes a side (but is…
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Il Punto di Vista: An Independent Voice for the Overlooked
Il Punto di Vista is an independent, open and non-profit space for geopolitics, culture and critical analysis, grounded in human rights, nonviolence, facts and responsibility. This project was born from a simple conviction: the people who are most affected by power are often the least heard in public debate. They are spoken about, categorized, judged and sometimes exploited, but too rarely listened to. Il Punto di Vista exists to challenge that pattern and to create a space where information and in-depth analysis are not a luxury, but a right. This is an open, accessible and humane space. It welcomes participation from all those who recognize tolerance and nonviolence as essential…
