Tackling Social Injustice in Kenya with People’s Assemblies?

A Report of the People’s Assemblies Forum held in the Mathare Social Justice Centre’s Creative Hub on August 11, 2023. Cross-posted from the Mathare Social Justice Center. Why People’s Assemblies? The people’s assemblies arise from the need of the people to administer and generate solutions to the problems ailing their society. The concept is a people’s […]

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February 10, 2024
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From citizens of nations to citizens of cities

Written by Yavor Tarinski [C]itizens today no longer even approximate the high and eminently human standard of citizenship that was established in the Hellenic world—a meaning that must be recovered, as well as the personal and social training, or paideia, for producing citizens. ~Murray Bookchin[1] Often, when people advocate for the reinvigoration of citizenship in […]

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February 9, 2024
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For a consistently democratic and internationalist left

  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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December 31, 2023
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An interview with Murray Bookchin (Burlington 20-7-1994)

-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 […]

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December 26, 2023
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Thinking about ecological economy on the basis of social movement experiences

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 […]

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December 12, 2023
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Voices for an Israel-Palestine Confederation

Written by Yavor Tarinski. Republished from Aftoleksi. Democratic confederalism is the contrasting paradigm of the oppressed people. ~ Abdullah Öcalan in Prison Writings: Roots of Civilisation The bombing and invasion of Gaza continues in full force, bringing death and destruction to countless civilians. These attacks should immediately stop, the siege of Gaza must be lifted and […]

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November 8, 2023
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An Activist-Researcher as a Peace Delegate

Written by Dr. Federico Venturini, Human Geographer and Social Ecologist This is a personal relection on an activist-researcher’s experience as a peace delegate. As with all stories, let’s start from the beginning. I believe in freedom and I work towards the elimination of all forms of domination. For this reason I am embedded in many […]

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October 25, 2023
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Stop war against humanity in North and East Syria: Stop Turkey’s war and occupation policies

A global coalition of academics, activists and organisations, among whom John Holloway and Debbie Bookchin, has issued a statement condemning Turkey’s ongoing military operations in North and East Syria. The statement, signed by 183 individuals and 35 collectives, called for urgent international intervention to prevent further “crimes against humanity”. The undersigned express our solidarity with […]

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October 15, 2023
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Degrowing neo-Nazism – Reflections from the Greek 2023 elections and strategy against far-right politics

Written by Maria Dandoulaki. Holder of a BA in Education and currently a Master’s Student in Degrowth and Political Ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Maria is an ecological activist and academically is interested in the Political Ecology and Economy of food, Agroecology, Critical-Alternative Pedagogies, and anti-authoritarian perspectives towards radical socio-ecological transformations. June 25th […]

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September 19, 2023
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