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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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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Self-organize and start practicing direct democracy now! | Letter from the occupied universities of Serbia

  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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December 23, 2024
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The Unique Contribution of Murray Bookchin to Political Thought

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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December 1, 2024
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Blackness, Anarchism, and Social Ecology

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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November 16, 2024
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Panoptic Geography: Humans and Nature under Surveillance

Written by Sotiris Lycourghiotis and George Poulados, originally published in Natures and Energies beyond the Shadow of the State, vol. 3 (2021) In recent decades, we have witnessed the rapid growth of satellite and geographic technologies. A series of new satellite and air (altimetric) techniques have emerged radically improving the accuracy of digital maps and […]

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October 5, 2024
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Collaboration and mutual aid in rural Ukraine during the war

Written by Natalia Mamonova. Excerpt from her piece Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in rural Ukraine during the war. Wars and armed conflicts cause the destruction of rural infrastructure, the loss of livestock, the widespread use of land mines, and the population movements, which lead to long-term food security problems (Teodosijevic 2003). In such circumstances, […]

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September 14, 2024
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