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 […]
Read More In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 1 – Lviv)
Written by Netzwerk für Kommunalismus. Below we present an English translation of the original German text. July 24, 2023 150 years after the foundation of the Anti-Authoritarian International more than 4000 anarchists and left-libertarians met at St. Imier, a small town in the Swiss Jura mountains. Among them were also Communalists. During the five-day meeting […]
Read More Communalists use meeting at St. Imier to strengthen bonds and build collective power
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, […]
Read More Report from the international anarchist meeting in St. Imier, Switzerland
Today in Greece the government of the hard-right New Democracy party evicted the self-organized Kurdish camp in the town of Lavrio. The inhabitants are being transfered to conventional government-run camps where there are severe restrictions. The self-managed Lavrio camp has functioned for years on the greeprinciples of democratic confederalism, providing shelter to political refugees from […]
Read More Greek government evicts the self-governed Kurdish camp in Lavrio
Written by Elisée Reclus in 1895 To look at our enormous cities, expanding day by day and almost hour by hour, engulfing year by year fresh colonies of immigrants, and running out their suckers, like giant octopuses, into the surrounding country, one feels a sort of shudder come over one, as if in presence of […]
Read More The Evolution of Cities
Written by Brian Morris as a chapter in his Pioneers of Ecological Humanism: Mumford, Dubos and Bookchin (Black Rose Books, 2017). If we are to survive an ecological catastrophe, Bookchin fervently writes, ‘We must decentralize, restore bioregional forms of production and food cultivation, diversify our technologies, scale them to human dimensions, and establish face-to-face forms […]
Read More Toward an Ecological Society
Written by Kali Akuno, Brian Drolet and Doug Norberg There are many deeply problematic and dangerous presumptions embedded in this “defend democracy” orientation. For one, it says and does nothing for the vast majority of humanity that have never experienced the alleged benefits of bourgeois democracy. And for another, it presumes that bourgeois democracy is […]
Read More Fighting to Save Democracy Under Capitalism is a Dead End
Written by Yavor Tarinski We don’t aim to seize colonial state power but to abolish it. We seek nothing but total liberation. ~Indigenous Action[1] Colonialism is still an issue today, as patterns of colonial exploitation continue in different parts of the world. Although the form might have changed, it is nonetheless still there. But the […]
Read More Anti-colonialism and direct democracy
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
