The Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) is glad to announce its next conference on 25th – 27th October 2024 in Athens, Greece! Title: The Politics of Social Ecology: From Theory to Praxis Context Contemporary crises are making the struggle against capitalist modernity and its associated forms of domination more urgent than ever. The global […]
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Written by Stephen Hunt 1980s-1990s In the present day, many political activists in Turkey are familiar with Murray Bookchin’s ideas, especially in the Kurdish-majority region of the South East. When Abdullah Öcalan adopted and adapted Bookchin’s political theory, he significantly amplified his influence. Commentators such as Carne Ross have spoken of the “remarkable” nature of […]
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Federico Venturini reviews Bookchin’s The Modern Crisis (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2022.). Originally published in The AAG Review of Books. A Republishing Endeavor1 The latest edition of The Modern Crisis, published in 2022, is part of an ongoing effort to amplify the work of Murray Bookchin, the founder of social ecology and the political project […]
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-Despite the increasing disillusion that people in western countries have with professional politicians, we see that to a large extent instead of seeking to create a new liberatory project they turn to charismatic but demagogic “leaders” such as Berlusconi in Italy. Lepen in France, Zirinofski in Russia and Pero in the U.S.A..What do you think […]
Read More An interview with Murray Bookchin (Burlington 20-7-1994)
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Text in the banner: Ecocommunalismo para cambiarlo todo, Bienvenido a Lozoya (Ecocommunalism to change it all, Welcome to Lozoya) On the 28th of January 2023 was organized the first Encounter on social ecology and communalism of the Iberian Peninsula. The purpose of the encounter was to gather activists and people interested in communalism and discuss […]
Read More Chronicle of a Communalist Encounter in Lozoya, Madrid
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