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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Silvia Federici: For an International Feminist Movement Against Capitalist Patriarchy

Social science professor Silvia Federici spoke at the People’s Platform Europe for an international feminist movement against capitalist patriarchy and its ongoing war on social reproduction. The complete title of her speech is “For an International Feminist Movement Against Capitalist Patriarchy and its Ongoing War on Social Reproduction”. Below an exerpt: Capitalism was born with […]

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February 19, 2025
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John Holloway: Perspectives in the Storm

Anticapitalist sociologist John Holloway—renowned for his work on revolution and social movements—spoke at the Peoples’ Platform Europe in Vienna, delivering a powerful message on rejecting capitalist inhumanity and building new forms of social connection. Below an excerpt from his speech: Anger. We come here to express our anger. Our anger against the militarisation of the […]

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February 19, 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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Reportage and interviews with activists in Athens on TRISE’s 2024 Social Ecology Conference

Nicolai and Ulrik from the Danish Utopisk Front have been to Athens to attend a conference on social ecology organized by the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE). In connection with this, they interviewed a selected handful of speakers—interviews that we find highly relevant and inspiring. They also share a bit about their own experiences in […]

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January 16, 2025
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GIVE VOICE TO ROJAVA! We will not stop defending Rojava, the hope of the peoples to live together

Statement by the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement Rojava, which is being built as a democratic, ecological and women’s libertarian model of life in the Middle East, is once again facing the danger of occupation. The life built in Rojava with the joint struggle of peoples, women and youth in the middle of the war, while giving […]

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January 1, 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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Social ecology aims to build an inclusive and diverse “We” – Report from TRISE Conference 2024

Report by the Netzwerk für Kommunalismus. The report is also available in German, Greek, and Dutch. With the 2024 TRISE conference in Athens (25-27 October 2024), the social ecology movement has taken a big step forward in Europe. Hundreds participated in discussions on topics as diverse as urban planning from below, the gift economy, democratic confederalism, […]

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November 7, 2024
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