Franco “Bifo” Berardi

Franco “Bifo” Berardi is a social theorist, activist and was a key figure in the Italian Autonomia movement of the 1970s. He is cofounder of the magazine A/traverso (1975–1981) and of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976/1978). He is the author of, most recently, Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression (2024).

September 11, 2026

Columns/Geopolitics

BRICS+ Expansion and the Quest for Multipolarity

On September 12–13, 2026, India will take centre stage as host of the 18th BRICS Summit, bringing together an increasingly consequential gathering of the Global South. The small five-member group that India

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

From 9/11 to ‘Mutant Jihadism’: Europe’s New Terror Threat

Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Europe’s terrorist threat has changed fundamentally. The era of large, hierarchically organised operations remains part of the history of modern terrorism, but the contemporary threat is increasingly defined by decentralised initiative, digital

September 11, 2026

KSM Trial: 25 Years Without Justice

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

A U.S. military judge has set June 5, 2028, as the new trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the accused mastermind of the

Israel’s Hezbollah Offensive Puts Iran Truce at Risk

Columns/Geopolitics

Israel’s offensive to seize Ali al-Taher Ridge, a major Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon, threatens to reverberate far beyond the battlefield. According to an

American Unconscious: Western Disintegration

December 10, 2024

Columns

Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice, so our television screens are populated, saturated, by ‘degenerate’ images and statements. In the field of social ecology, men like Donald

Intelligent Extermination

November 19, 2024

Education

The wars of the twenty-first century are fought less and less by human beings. Human beings are the victims, but the perpetrators of the extermination are machines. These machines are driven less