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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Written by Theodoros Karyotis An update for English-speaking friends who want to make sense of what is happening in Greece: Late at night on February 28th, the collision of two trains in the recently privatised and chronically degraded railways left at least 57 dead, most of them students at Thessaloniki’s local universities. Since then, there […]
Read More Mass demos and strikes all over Greece in response to deadly train collision
As humanitarian aid fails to reach north-western Syria, where the rebel-held area of Kurdistan is located, women and men are organizing themselves to cope with the humanitarian emergency they are experiencing after a 7.8 earthquake and a war that began 12 years ago. Text: Daliri Oropeza Alvarez | Source The border between Turkey and Syria […]
Read More Women’s communes are being organized in Kurdistan, Syria and Turkey in response to the earthquake
Written by Yavor Tarinski A vote, even a free vote, may be only – and often is only – a parody of democracy. Democracy is not the right to vote on secondary issues. Real [democracy] lies in being able to decide for oneself on all essential questions in full knowledge of the relevant facts. ~Cornelius […]
Read More On why Referendums aren’t synonymous with Direct Democracy
Written by Alexandros Schismenos “BERNANDA – Then why are we on strike? MOHAMET – Listen to her! Because they too are a step. LUCAS – Like a step after a strike, it’s a squat. CROWD – Go on then. Go get ’em, and we’ve got ’em!” Skourtis, “Strike or the struggle of the classes by […]
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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 […]
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Written by Nathaniel Gregory In the Bluegrass State of Kentucky many working people have experienced worsening economic conditions, job losses, and degraded communities, threatening our very way of life & leaving us in complete ruin, despair, and debt. Our politicians do little to help us in our time of need, as they control the levers […]
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The following text is an excerpt from the book Municipalism in Practice: Progressive Housing Policies in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, and Vienna ( RLS-Cities: April 2022). Every year hundreds of thousands of people are evicted in Europe. National governments and courts systematically leave citizens unprotected against displacements fuelled by real estate interests. Cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona, […]
Read More Anti-Eviction Strategies as an Instrument of Municipalist Housing Policies
Written by Hacer Özdemir The 21st century women’s struggle gradually socialised and spread all over the world with a butterfly effect… The slogan Jin Jiyan Azadî will become a philosophy of life, a commonality and line of struggle for women in the 21st century The repertoire of struggle, resistance, resurrection and existence of women, one […]
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An excerpt from Giorgos Oikonomou’s book “Polytechnic 1973: The beginning of the autonomous movement”. The Athens Polytechnic uprising began in November 1973 as a massive grassroots student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. Oikonomou was participant in the uprising and was wounded by a gunshot from the forces of repression. […]
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