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The FUNAMBULIST 63: Follow the Money

Price

$20.00

Date

2026

Publisher

The Funambulist

Format

Periodicals

ISBN

2402-5895

Size

20.5 × 25.5 cm

Length

84 pp

Genre

Activism, Politics

For this 63rd issue of The Funambulist, we teamed-up with Tunisian anthropologist and visual artist Myriam Amri and invite you to Follow the Money with us. In it, we enter the crevices of a capitalist system and trace it back to its central nodes: property, land, capital, and class. We read how money is central to colonial and imperial projects, but also how sovereignty and the liberation of our monetary imaginary can be tools of emancipation. From the CFA franc (Ndongo Samba Sylla, Moses März) to the US dollar (Lily H. Chumley) or the Palestinian Pound (Hicham Safieddine), we navigate monetary politics around the world, and more specifically in Sudan (Nisrin Elamin & Laleh Khalili), Puerto Rico (Roque Salas Rivera) or Brazil (Cho). The issue also contains a board game entitled “You’ve Got Yourselves a Revolution, Now What?” imagined by the issue editors Myriam Amri and Léopold Lambert and designed by Aude Abou Nasr. As for the cover, it features an artwork by Adriana Martínez Barón.

In the News from the Fronts section, you can read three texts about the legacy of Italian colonialism in southern Somalia (Iman Mohamed), the denationalization of 50,000 Afropanamanians in the 1940s (Kaysha Corinealdi), and prison abolitionism in Czechia (Adéla Vavříková).

We also continue our new section in the magazine of intergenerational transmission entitled “Learning With Our Elders,” in which an activist/militant shares with us something they learn from a past mistake or failure. We hear from Eelam Tamil organizer Arivuchelvi.