Our best chance for solving the climate crisis — direct democracy and equality

Written by Yavor Tarinski The apocalyptic images that we see in contemporary fictional cinema and literature seem to be not that far from materializing and in real life. Talks about the end of life as we know it are beginning to make more sense as information about the possible consequences of the unfolding global warming […]

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February 27, 2017
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Murray Bookchin’s New Life

  We here republish an article by Damian White originally published in Jacobin Magazine in July 2016. Murray Bookchin’s New Life Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin’s ideas should be studied by today’s left. – Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the […]

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December 19, 2016
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Urban Land: Private, Public or Community Ownership?

A panel discussion titled Urban Land: Private, Public or Community Ownership?  was held in Montreal on November 12, 2015. Presented by Planners Network – Montreal chapter, Geography Undergraduate Student Society (GUSS), Urban Planning Association (UPA) and the Geography Graduates (Geograds). The discussion offers a very valuable record of an ongoing discussion on the present and future of cities […]

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February 2, 2016
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Greece, when the social movements are all that is left

  By Theodoros Karyotis. Originally published on OpenDemocracy. – Skyrocketing abstention, social demobilisation and an impending wave of harsh austerity measures call for critical reflection after Syriza’s victory. There is nothing to celebrate, really. Maybe the European leftists who arrived in Athens to support Tsipras are justified to celebrate, since they have a vision of […]

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September 30, 2015
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Janet Biehl: The Revolutionary Moment

Written by Janet Biehl in July 2015, originally published on her blog.   Today Rojava has become the epicenter of popular desires for radical democratic change. Like Paris in 1789, St. Petersburg in 1905 and 1917, and Barcelona in 1936-37, it crystallizes an era’s aspirations for social and political revolution. The last book that Murray […]

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August 7, 2015
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What kind of nation state for the 21st century?

  The form of political organization now known as the nation-state is a relatively recent invention in Western societies. This invention, the dominant form in the West, has been imposed on most of the world’s population, throughout the twentieth century, notwithstanding that it is based on a number of ideas and social attitudes totally alien […]

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February 10, 2015
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The Politics of Ecology and the Ecology of Politics

  Dimitri Roussopoulos asks us, in this keynote speech given in Oslo, September 27, 2014 at the “Ecological Challenges” conference, to consider the historical record of the State management to protect the natural environment from being damaged. He goes on to discuss political and social ecology and the pivotal role of building genuine and democratic […]

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January 2, 2015
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