Written by Dimitri Roussopoulos When we think of cities, especially the basis upon which we can undertake building a movement for radical social change in cities, we have to research and think hard about the political economy of cities. In the global economy, both among the major multinational corporations and certain rich governments, we currently […]
Read More Take the City – Social Ecology in Practice
Written by Gustave Massiah. We thank Feroz Mehdi for the translation into English. In 2023, France has entered a new period of social and political crisis. The crisis has highlighted the social, ecological and democratic contradictions. The mobilizations are significant. The social movement against the pension reform is continuing. The ecological protest has become more […]
Read More An Ecological and Democratic Social Movement
Written by Jordi Borja, Emeritus professor at the Open University of Catalonia. The present article was published in the book Advancing Urban Rights: Equality and Diversity in the City (2022). I. And the right to the city became real when it was reinvented by active citizenship The ideas First came the creator god of the […]
Read More The Right to the City: From the Streets to Globalisation
Writer and activist Sarah Glynn interviews John Holloway during the Challenging Capitalist Modernity Conference in Hamburg. Below are some key points from the interview: What message does Abdullah Öcalan have for the wider anticapitalist movement? He opened my world in the sense of introducing a different geographical historical context. He traces things back to the […]
Read More Interview with John Holloway on the Kurdish Movement
TRISE member Federico Venturini teams up with artist and activist Ángela del Río to translate in images his book chapter “The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to Come”* in an effort to Looting the Ivory Tower. *Published in: Hunt, S. E. (ed.). Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and […]
Read More The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to Come
Written by Theodoros Karyotis An update for English-speaking friends who want to make sense of what is happening in Greece: Late at night on February 28th, the collision of two trains in the recently privatised and chronically degraded railways left at least 57 dead, most of them students at Thessaloniki’s local universities. Since then, there […]
Read More Mass demos and strikes all over Greece in response to deadly train collision
As humanitarian aid fails to reach north-western Syria, where the rebel-held area of Kurdistan is located, women and men are organizing themselves to cope with the humanitarian emergency they are experiencing after a 7.8 earthquake and a war that began 12 years ago. Text: Daliri Oropeza Alvarez | Source The border between Turkey and Syria […]
Read More Women’s communes are being organized in Kurdistan, Syria and Turkey in response to the earthquake
Written by Yavor Tarinski A vote, even a free vote, may be only – and often is only – a parody of democracy. Democracy is not the right to vote on secondary issues. Real [democracy] lies in being able to decide for oneself on all essential questions in full knowledge of the relevant facts. ~Cornelius […]
Read More On why Referendums aren’t synonymous with Direct Democracy
Written by Alexandros Schismenos “BERNANDA – Then why are we on strike? MOHAMET – Listen to her! Because they too are a step. LUCAS – Like a step after a strike, it’s a squat. CROWD – Go on then. Go get ’em, and we’ve got ’em!” Skourtis, “Strike or the struggle of the classes by […]
Read More The history of Art is also a history of Autonomy
Written by Andy Price. This is the preface to Price’s book “Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time” (New Compass, 2012). At an academic conference several years ago, I attended a workshop directed to an examination of Murray Bookchin and his place in the anarchist tradition. There, after giving a paper I […]
Read More Beyond the Caricature: The Need to Recover Bookchin