The Democratic Modernism of Svetozar Marković and Abdullah Öcalan

Written by Andrej Grubačić for the book Building Free Life: Dialogues with Öcalan (PM Press, 2020). Svetozar Marković, the founder of Balkan socialism, was arrested in January 1874. He was immediately jailed in the Serbian town of Kragujevac. For the police records Marković gave his occupation as a writer; the local authorities recorded that he […]

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April 24, 2025
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WTF Is Social Ecology?

Article: Usufruct Collective. Illustration: Bella Harter. Cross-posted from DOPE magazine. From climate change, to deforestation, to destruction of biodiversity and habitats, to ocean acidification, to air, water and soil pollution, and beyond: the world is undergoing a colossal ecological crisis. If business as usual continues without sufficient opposition and alternatives, there will be escalating disasters. […]

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April 7, 2025
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Plenums in the post-Yugoslav space

Written by Yavor Tarinski Today, plenums are talking about a new type of direct democracy. ~Dalibor Petrović[1] We see that in different temporal and spatial realities, in moments of social upheaval, that societies begin to move and self-organize. There is a common trait that often connects such experiences – the emergence of grassroots institutions that […]

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March 23, 2025
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Urban Design, Autonomy, and the Right to the City: Insights from Jere Kuzmanić

An interview with anarchist urbanist Jere Kuzmanić, from Split, Croatia for the Greek digital journal Aftoleksi. He is a researcher, PhD candidate, and department member at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya in Barcelona. He participates in scientific and activist research projects with a particular interest in social and environmental justice, direct action and cooperation in […]

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March 8, 2025
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Silvia Federici: For an International Feminist Movement Against Capitalist Patriarchy

Social science professor Silvia Federici spoke at the People’s Platform Europe for an international feminist movement against capitalist patriarchy and its ongoing war on social reproduction. The complete title of her speech is “For an International Feminist Movement Against Capitalist Patriarchy and its Ongoing War on Social Reproduction”.

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February 19, 2025
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John Holloway: Perspectives in the Storm

Anticapitalist sociologist John Holloway—renowned for his work on revolution and social movements—spoke at the Peoples’ Platform Europe in Vienna, delivering a powerful message on rejecting capitalist inhumanity and building new forms of social connection. “We need to organise our desperation, organise our scream.”

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February 19, 2025
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Democracy Is Direct

Written by Cindy Milstein. This essay first appeared in the Spring of 2000—as a contribution to the Bringing Democracy Home booklet, which was distributed at the A16 demonstrations against the IMF and World Bank in DC—and most recently in an updated form, as chapter 3 in Cindy’s book Anarchism and Its Aspirations in 2010. These […]

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February 9, 2025
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Reportage and interviews with activists in Athens on TRISE’s 2024 Social Ecology Conference

Nicolai and Ulrik from the Danish Utopisk Front have been to Athens to attend a conference on social ecology organized by the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE). In connection with this, they interviewed a selected handful of speakers—interviews that we find highly relevant and inspiring. They also share a bit about their own experiences in […]

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January 16, 2025
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GIVE VOICE TO ROJAVA! We will not stop defending Rojava, the hope of the peoples to live together

Statement by the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement Rojava, which is being built as a democratic, ecological and women’s libertarian model of life in the Middle East, is once again facing the danger of occupation. The life built in Rojava with the joint struggle of peoples, women and youth in the middle of the war, while giving […]

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January 1, 2025
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