Category: Blog

Occupation sustains empire

Blog • March 14, 2026 • By Anastasia

To oust the British bases from our island, we must first dismantle the Turkish occupation.

Treating the British bases as if they exist independently of the geopolitical structure created by the Turkish occupation is naive at best and manipulative at worst: such mindsets deeply lack a materialist understanding of change. They also evince an inability to comprehend the political ubiquity of fear, the logics of guarantor securitisation and the threat of imperialist retaliation, and how these factors perpetually create the conditions in which the maintenance of the British bases can be legitimised and realised.

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Compromise in Cyprus is fundamentally incompatible with liberation in Palestine

Blog • November 29, 2025 • By Anastasia

As Palestinians continue to resist the brutality of the Zionist colonial project, as they remain steadfast in their heroic struggle for freedom and unwavering in their resilience in the face of genocide, occupation and ontological erasure, I am reminded of Ghassan Kanafani’s analysis of peace as capitulation. I am reminded of the Thawabet: the right of resistance, the right to self determination, and the right of return as non-negotiable principles guiding the liberation struggle.

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