Countdown… Thinking through catastrophe to ward it off.

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A wave of war and reaction is sweeping across the world. Reality seems to surpass the most dystopian of fictions. The authoritarian turn of capitalism is combined with the rise of reactionary forces, increasing geopolitical tensions and militarism, in a scenario of a rapidly worsening climate emergency. The genocide in Gaza is the most brutal manifestation of this age of disaster.

Despite the long shadows cast everywhere, the future is not written in stone, and many outcomes are still possible. It may appear that the trajectory of world events is on a permanent downward trend, but the continuous examples of resistance—solidarity movements with Palestine, strikes in platform companies, the persistence of feminism despite increasingly reactionary trends, and the growing radicalization of environmental struggle, among others—show that the situation remains open.