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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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 […]
Read More Reportage and interviews with activists in Athens on TRISE’s 2024 Social Ecology Conference
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 […]
Read More GIVE VOICE TO ROJAVA! We will not stop defending Rojava, the hope of the peoples to live together
A month and a half after the criminal incident at the Novi Sad train station in Serbia, where part of the roof collapsed and killed 15 people, the Serbian people continue to organise, with the students being at the heart of the mobilizations! It all started at the Novi Sad Drama School, where students […]
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Written by Jean-François Filion The life of the Social Ecologist, Murray Bookchin, was exemplary. His political and theoretical commitment is a model of depth and courage. Regardless of the fate the future holds for his doctrine, regardless of the memory of the intellectual disputes in which he participated, Murray Bookchin will remain a major reference […]
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On 13 October 2018, prolific author and activist Modibo Kadalie participated in a public discussion with William C. Anderson, co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press, 2018). This community conversation occurred at the third annual Atlanta Radical Book Fair, which was held at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Cublaure and History. […]
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