Tackling Social Injustice in Kenya with People’s Assemblies?

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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February 10, 2024
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The flame of self-organization and solidarity burns in the Thessalian plain!

Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi writes about the popular responses to the floods that have caused death and destruction in the Thessaly region of Central Greece. The mayors and regional leaders need to listen carefully this time: Neither in Thessaly nor anywhere else, never again FOR us, WITHOUT us! Self-organization is blossoming on the wreckage left by the […]

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September 16, 2023
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In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 4 – Odessa)

Fourth segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. The excitement, arriving in Odessa, is comparable to that felt in Jerusalem, Istanbul or New York. Cities that command respect for their history, human diversity and cultural […]

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September 1, 2023
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In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 3 – Kyiv)

Third segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. I meet Sergey from Solidarity Collectives at the headquarters of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Kiev. I am here with friends from the Social Municipalities of Bologna, […]

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August 26, 2023
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In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 2 – Kyiv)

Second segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. In Kiev I met several militants of the Solidarity Collectives, known for their support of resistance and internationalism. They were founded by anarchists and now group together […]

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August 23, 2023
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In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 1 – Lviv)

Social ecologist Davide Grasso, who is currently in Ukraine, speaks about his dialogues with local leftist activists on the situation in the country. Available also in Greek HERE.  I am currently in Ukraine to learn about the voices of social and military resistance to the Russian invasion that are closer to my worldview. The hegemony […]

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August 19, 2023
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Report from the international anarchist meeting in St. Imier, Switzerland

Photoreportage by Efthymis Hadjitheodorou for our Greek comrades at Aftoleksi.  The egalitarian relations which I found in the Jura Mountains, the independence of thought and expression which I saw developing in the workers, and their unlimited devotion to the cause appealed far more strongly to my feelings; and when I came away from the mountains, […]

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July 25, 2023
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Workshops on Confederalism and Democratic Modernity at Hamburg Conference

Report by ANF As part of the Hamburg conference “We want our world back” from the event series “Challenging Capitalist Modernity”, 23 workshops took place on Saturday. The venues had to be moved due to the cancellation of the Audimax at short notice by the administration of the University of Hamburg under pressure from the […]

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April 13, 2023
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VIDEOS and BOOKLET from Democracy Education for Ecology and Participation – Training (DEEP-T)

We share some outputs of the week intensive course Democracy Education for Ecology and Participation – Training (DEEP-T) that took place in May 2022 in Italy. It aimed to explore in a collective way the roots of the ecological and climate crisis, and how to deal with them for a just and sustainable future. During […]

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July 29, 2022
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Report on TRISE’s “100 Years Murray Bookchin” conference

Report by Netzwerk für Kommunalismus on TRISE’s conference “100 years Murray Bookchin”. 15 years after his death, Murray Bookchin’s ideas are more relevant than ever. The TRISE conference  covered very diverse areas in eight panels with 24 speakers, from Rojava to the COP26 climate summit. According to legal specialist Marlene Payva, there is a misunderstanding […]

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November 2, 2021
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