Statement by the European Ecological Movement for Kurdistan (TEV-EKO) from 12.05.2025. The 12th Congress of the PKK, which was held on 5-7 May 2025, and the statement issued afterwards represent a new turning point in the peoples’ struggle for freedom and democracy. The decisions taken have a historical significance not only for the Kurdish people, […]
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Written by Yavor Tarinski To many the news of PKK dissolving itself came as a thunder bolt from the blue sky. Such a surprise mostly comes from an absence of knowledge on the writings of Öcalan and the project of Democratic Modernity that has been adopted by the Kurdish freedom movement couple of decades ago. […]
Read More Strategic Transformation? The PKK’s Self-Dissolution within the Framework of Democratic Modernity
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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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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On March 13, 2025 Eleanor Finley visited the Urban Studies class Delivery of Urban Public Services at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies to explore possibilities and solutions through Municipalism. You can see and share the video from the talk here:
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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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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 […]
Read More Urban Design, Autonomy, and the Right to the City: Insights from Jere Kuzmanić
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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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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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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