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. “We need to organise our desperation, organise our scream.”
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“Casa encantada: A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte” is a book that brings together illustrations by Renato Baruq and photographs by Cadu Passos, both from the Kasa Invisível squat in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. During 2022 and 2023, the two Brazilian artists and organizers documented almost 20 old abandoned houses in the […]
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A contribution to left renewal and transformation 10 December 2023 We have been watching the civilian death toll in Gaza mount, in horror, day by day, for weeks on end now. We are appalled and outraged at the collective punishment meted out to Gazans by the IDF, increasing settler violence in the West Bank, […]
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Written by Olli Tammilehto. This article marks the initial publication of several revised papers presented at the fifth TRISE conference titled “Power to Destroy, Power to Create: Building a Culture of Resistance – Towards Radical Social Change,” held in Athens in October 2019. Stay tuned for more updates, as there will be additional publications to […]
Read More Thinking about ecological economy on the basis of social movement experiences
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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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 […]
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Written by Hawzhin Azeez As the diverse peoples of Iran protest against their regime following the death of 22 year old Kurdish woman Zhina Mehsa Amini we need to remember an important fact: Iran is not a homogenous entity of one culture, one people, one language, one ethnicity. You protest the murder of Zhina’s womenhood […]
Read More True justice for Zhina looks like genuine change, inclusiveness and humanity
We present to you the new publication from TRISE, entitled Asking questions with the Zapatistas: Reflections from Greece on our Civilizational Impasse, authored by TRISE members Theodoros Karyotis, Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi, and Yavor Tarinski. Editor: Matthew Little | Cover: Apollon Petropoulos | Design: George Chelebiev Publisher: Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) | Year: 2022 […]
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Written by TRISE member Federico Venturini This is a story about my experience as activist-researcher during the covid-19 crisis in Udine, a small city in the North-East of Italy (1). This is not a happy story of actions and results but a narrative of frustration and impotence feelings. At the end of February Italy […]
Read More Social movements’ powerlessness at the time of covid-19: A Personal Account
The Maracanã stadium is not only a space for leisure but, above all, a space of struggle. In this documentary (in whose production TRISE members Ersilia Verlinghieri and Federico Venturini also took part), the Grupo Popular Pesquisa em Ação explores the struggle for education, for housing, for indigenous rights, against capital development. This is a […]
Read More MARAKÁ’NÀ: struggles in Rio De Janeiro [Documentary]