What are the essential ingredients for a creative campaign? For the German Young Greens, it was an old East German truck and a determination to have fun. Their recent ‘Kulturkarre’ project might have sounded crazy at the start, but it shows how progressives can break out of their usual bubble, build connections in places they usually struggle to reach, and fight the far right – all while dancing the night away.

In Italy, campaigners succeeded in turning a petition into something much bigger: a nationwide movement demanding a referendum to overturn a controversial law. The new law, introduced by Giorgia Meloni’s government, will block access to sexual and emotional education for many young people and put LGBT+ youth at particular risk of harm and stigmatization.

In this review of Karen Hao’s Empire of AI, Tibor Dessewffy explores the origins of the prevailing AI model and the dominant ideas around its future course and assesses some of the normative proposals to tame its damaging effects on people and planet. He argues that while the current trajectory of AI development gives great cause for concern, the future form of this technology is anything but certain.

Summer has arrived and it's the perfect moment to recharge your batteries and your reserves of hope in the power of people, communities, and movements to change the world.