Useless Fighters, Issue 2 Poetry takes its title from a

takes its title from a series of interviews with Japanese free jazz pioneer Masayuki Takayangi that were published in Japanese in 1975–76 and are published here in English for the first time

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer and writer who has contributed essays to various magazines

Eloghosa Osunde

a writer and art connoisseur from Karachi

moderation…) and it remains a fragile system

Useless Fighters, Issue 2 Poetry takes its title from aFrom cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to illegal drug production and trade in Lebanon, the alleged site of Noahs Ark in Turkiye, to giant solar fields in China, this new issue of USELESS FIGHTERS explores real geopolitical, economical and religious stakes embedded in mountains. With contributions and art from: Gabriel Moses, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sophie Stafford, Gerhard Richter, Yumna al Arashi, Jean Michel Basquiat, Ilyes Griyeb,