Written by Dr Clemens Hoffmann, lecturer in International Politics, University of Stirling, Scotland. The present text is the speech of Dr Hoffmann at Direct Democracy Festival, held on 06/09/18 in Thessaloniki. Thanks for the invite, it is great to be part of something I had always dreamt of in a way doing myself but the […]
Read More The Social Dimension of Energy TransitionWe are happy to announce that the next TRISE conference will take place in Athens in October 25 & 26, 2019. The conference will debate the current municipalist movements and what social ecology can offer for their development beyond statecraft and capitalist modernity. More details on the theme of the conference and the call for […]
Read More Breaking News… new TRISE conference – Athens, October 2019
Written by Yavor Tarinski / Image source: conservationmagazine.org The notion that man must dominate nature emerges directly from the domination of man by man[1] Murray Bookchin Nowadays the need to act against the ongoing environmental degradation seems more than evident. From marginal activist groups to governments of the strongest countries on the planet, […]
Read More Preventing Ecological Catastrophe Means Abolishing Hierarchy and Domination
Written by Mathew Little I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Rojava (the predominantly Kurdish region in Northern Syria) recently and I think what they are doing in terms of building democracy from the street upwards (in contrast to our barely representative systems) deserves our studied attention. It certainly appears very impressive and they aren’t […]
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Written by Vicente Rubio-Pueyo. Originally published as a brochure by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung The 2017 Catalan independence referendum has been called “undemocratic,” a “power grab,” and even a “coup d’état” in international media. No matter the specific terminology, the referendum as well as the dispute over its democratic legitimacy indicate that Spanish political culture […]
Read More Municipalism in Spain: From Barcelona to Madrid, and Beyond
Written by Federico Venturini. The article below has been originally published as a preface in the book Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdogan’s Turkey Your Freedom and Mine began with the idea of shining a brighter light on the work of the EUTCC International İmralı Peace Delegations. Given […]
Read More Your Freedom and Mine: Preface
