Written by Yavor Tarinski. Republished from Aftoleksi. Democratic confederalism is the contrasting paradigm of the oppressed people. ~ Abdullah Öcalan in Prison Writings: Roots of Civilisation The bombing and invasion of Gaza continues in full force, bringing death and destruction to countless civilians. These attacks should immediately stop, the siege of Gaza must be lifted and […]
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Written by Dr. Federico Venturini, Human Geographer and Social Ecologist This is a personal relection on an activist-researcher’s experience as a peace delegate. As with all stories, let’s start from the beginning. I believe in freedom and I work towards the elimination of all forms of domination. For this reason I am embedded in many […]
Read More An Activist-Researcher as a Peace Delegate
A global coalition of academics, activists and organisations, among whom John Holloway and Debbie Bookchin, has issued a statement condemning Turkey’s ongoing military operations in North and East Syria. The statement, signed by 183 individuals and 35 collectives, called for urgent international intervention to prevent further “crimes against humanity”. The undersigned express our solidarity with […]
Read More Stop war against humanity in North and East Syria: Stop Turkey’s war and occupation policies
Written by Maria Dandoulaki. Holder of a BA in Education and currently a Master’s Student in Degrowth and Political Ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Maria is an ecological activist and academically is interested in the Political Ecology and Economy of food, Agroecology, Critical-Alternative Pedagogies, and anti-authoritarian perspectives towards radical socio-ecological transformations. June 25th […]
Read More Degrowing neo-Nazism – Reflections from the Greek 2023 elections and strategy against far-right politics
Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi writes about the popular responses to the floods that have caused death and destruction in the Thessaly region of Central Greece. The mayors and regional leaders need to listen carefully this time: Neither in Thessaly nor anywhere else, never again FOR us, WITHOUT us! Self-organization is blossoming on the wreckage left by the […]
Read More The flame of self-organization and solidarity burns in the Thessalian plain!
Fourth segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. The excitement, arriving in Odessa, is comparable to that felt in Jerusalem, Istanbul or New York. Cities that command respect for their history, human diversity and cultural […]
Read More In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 4 – Odessa)
Third segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. I meet Sergey from Solidarity Collectives at the headquarters of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Kiev. I am here with friends from the Social Municipalities of Bologna, […]
Read More In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 3 – Kyiv)
Social ecologist Davide Grasso, who is currently in Ukraine, speaks about his dialogues with local leftist activists on the situation in the country. Available also in Greek HERE. I am currently in Ukraine to learn about the voices of social and military resistance to the Russian invasion that are closer to my worldview. The hegemony […]
Read More In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 1 – Lviv)
Today in Greece the government of the hard-right New Democracy party evicted the self-organized Kurdish camp in the town of Lavrio. The inhabitants are being transfered to conventional government-run camps where there are severe restrictions. The self-managed Lavrio camp has functioned for years on the greeprinciples of democratic confederalism, providing shelter to political refugees from […]
Read More Greek government evicts the self-governed Kurdish camp in Lavrio
Written by Elisée Reclus in 1895 To look at our enormous cities, expanding day by day and almost hour by hour, engulfing year by year fresh colonies of immigrants, and running out their suckers, like giant octopuses, into the surrounding country, one feels a sort of shudder come over one, as if in presence of […]
Read More The Evolution of Cities