The flame of self-organization and solidarity burns in the Thessalian plain!

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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September 16, 2023
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In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 4 – Odessa)

Fourth segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. The excitement, arriving in Odessa, is comparable to that felt in Jerusalem, Istanbul or New York. Cities that command respect for their history, human diversity and cultural […]

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September 1, 2023
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In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 3 – Kyiv)

Third segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. I meet Sergey from Solidarity Collectives at the headquarters of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Kiev. I am here with friends from the Social Municipalities of Bologna, […]

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August 26, 2023
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In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 1 – Lviv)

Social ecologist Davide Grasso, who is currently in Ukraine, speaks about his dialogues with local leftist activists on the situation in the country. Available also in Greek HERE.  I am currently in Ukraine to learn about the voices of social and military resistance to the Russian invasion that are closer to my worldview. The hegemony […]

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August 19, 2023
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Greek government evicts the self-governed Kurdish camp in Lavrio

Today in Greece the government of the hard-right New Democracy party evicted the self-organized Kurdish camp in the town of Lavrio. The inhabitants are being transfered to conventional government-run camps where there are severe restrictions. The self-managed Lavrio camp has functioned for years on the greeprinciples of democratic confederalism, providing shelter to political refugees from […]

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July 5, 2023
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The Evolution of Cities

Written by Elisée Reclus in 1895 To look at our enormous cities, expanding day by day and almost hour by hour, engulfing year by year fresh colonies of immigrants, and running out their suckers, like giant octopuses, into the surrounding country, one feels a sort of shudder come over one, as if in presence of […]

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July 2, 2023
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Toward an Ecological Society

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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June 25, 2023
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Fighting to Save Democracy Under Capitalism is a Dead End

Written by Kali Akuno, Brian Drolet and Doug Norberg There are many deeply problematic and dangerous presumptions embedded in this “defend democracy” orientation. For one, it says and does nothing for the vast majority of humanity that have never experienced the alleged benefits of bourgeois democracy. And for another, it presumes that bourgeois democracy is […]

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June 4, 2023
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Anti-colonialism and direct democracy

Written by Yavor Tarinski We don’t aim to seize colonial state power but to abolish it. We seek nothing but total liberation. ~Indigenous Action[1] Colonialism is still an issue today, as patterns of colonial exploitation continue in different parts of the world. Although the form might have changed, it is nonetheless still there. But the […]

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May 18, 2023
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Take the City – Social Ecology in Practice

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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May 14, 2023
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