Written by Theo Rouhette The proliferation of decayed factories, military installations, rural villages or transportation networks is often attributed to the force of creative destruction under capitalism, the endogenous process that ‘incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one’ (Schumpeter, 1942). Marxist thinkers focused on the […]
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A brochure by the Academy of Democratic Modernity, entitled: “Ecology: The Rebellion of the Environment”. It is a compilation of the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan about ecological problems and needed solutions. Presenting the booklet, the Academy said: “Alongside radical democracy and women’s liberation, ecology is also a central pillar in the paradigm of democratic modernity. […]
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Written by Iolanda Bianchi . Originally published in Spatial Justice and the Commons (Istanbul: Centre for Spatial Justice, 2019). Picture: Map reproduced from the European Municipalist Network (CC License BY-NC-SA 4.0 International) Over recent years, two concepts have been widely used in the urban studies vocabulary to generate and unify the multiform and variegated antagonistic […]
Read More Urban alternatives, to what degree? Parallelisms between Commons and Municipalism
“Casa encantada: A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte” is a book that brings together illustrations by Renato Baruq and photographs by Cadu Passos, both from the Kasa Invisível squat in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. During 2022 and 2023, the two Brazilian artists and organizers documented almost 20 old abandoned houses in the […]
Read More Casa encantada: A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte (e-book)
Written by Antijob media in Russian. The current English-language translation was done by Russian-speaking comrade for TRISE. Not that long ago we wrote about the occupation of mills and factories in Argentine, but as our subscribers rightly noted something similar – though unfortunately on a smaller scale and with its own particularities – happened in […]
Read More Lessons from the workers’ occupation of Vyborg’s factory in Russia
The Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) is glad to announce its next conference on 25th – 27th October 2024 in Athens, Greece! Title: The Politics of Social Ecology: From Theory to Praxis *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: End of June, 2024 *** Context Contemporary crises are making the struggle against capitalist modernity and its associated forms […]
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Written by Marco Deriu from the Department of Political and Social Studies of the University of Parma. Originally published in the journal Futures, Volume 44, Issue 6, August 2012, Pages 553-561. The debate surrounding the theme of democracy and degrowth covers many different questions from the reflections on sustainability and ecological democracy, to the discussion […]
Read More Democracies with a future: Degrowth and the democratic tradition
On the morning of February, 17th, the session on the ” Kurd”, organized by Civil Diplomacy Center NE Syria, in collaboration with Kongra Star Women’s Movement and Jineoloji Center took place. 50 people from around the world took part online to learn about the methods of the people- and women-led revolution in North and East […]
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Written by Stephen Hunt 1980s-1990s In the present day, many political activists in Turkey are familiar with Murray Bookchin’s ideas, especially in the Kurdish-majority region of the South East. When Abdullah Öcalan adopted and adapted Bookchin’s political theory, he significantly amplified his influence. Commentators such as Carne Ross have spoken of the “remarkable” nature of […]
Read More Found in Translation: Murray Bookchin’s Social Ecology in Turkey
A Report of the People’s Assemblies Forum held in the Mathare Social Justice Centre’s Creative Hub on August 11, 2023. Cross-posted from the Mathare Social Justice Center. Why People’s Assemblies? The people’s assemblies arise from the need of the people to administer and generate solutions to the problems ailing their society. The concept is a people’s […]
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