New Future

Courage to confront and challenge power is necessary. The time of mere criticism is over. The price of cowardice will be the aggravation of the multiple crises. The economic emancipation of the Global South will not be a gift from history, but the result of collective struggle.

During WWII, poetry was a weapon. From the siege of Leningrad to the streets of Santiago, words inspired hope and remembered the fallen. Discover the art that emanated from the Battle of Stalingrad.

Decades of IMF interventions have locked African nations into cycles of debt, austerity, and economic dependency, stifling real development while reinforcing neocolonial control over the continent’s financial sovereignty.

Since October 2023, Israel’s operations in the West Bank have intensified, though they have not received the attention they deserve.

From Bandung to Yogyakarta, Taring Padi carries forward the Bandung Spirit with radical art rooted in Indonesia’s artistic heritage. Tings Chak explores their vision of internationalist culture and collective creativity.

In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of it left?

The murals that once flourished under Chile’s Popular Unity government faced repression at home, but their legacy spread worldwide. In this issue, we explore their enduring political impact and speak to Mono, a prominent muralist.

Women creatively resist the impact of unilateral coercive measures (UCMs), a form of hyper-imperialist hybrid warfare that reinforces patriarchy and other forms of social discrimination.

Read about the musical ensemble Grenada’s philosophy and their journey through political song, internationalism, and memory.

Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.

Our first art bulletin of 2025 explores socialism as a cultural movement, tracing connections between cultural work, political education, and class struggle in revolutionary efforts across the Soviet Union, China, and Brazil’s MST.

As progressive governments take office in the Global South, now more than ever there is a burning need for a new development theory that can fulfil the Promethean aspirations of the darker nations.

Take a trip through our creation of revolutionary portraits, reclaiming archives, marking history, and amplifying legacies of struggle and hope for future generations.

In the face of the environmental crisis, which endangers the entire world, it is necessary for humanity to develop an agroecological model that opposes capitalism.