Written by Aslı Ü. Bâli & Omar M. Dajani* for the University of the Pacific Law Review / Vol. 56 A postnational future seems far from imminent. The insecurity and dislocation that has attended the successive economic and political crises of the last two decades has given rise to a resurgence in nationalism, and supranational […]
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Written by Andrej Grubačić for the book Building Free Life: Dialogues with Öcalan (PM Press, 2020). Svetozar Marković, the founder of Balkan socialism, was arrested in January 1874. He was immediately jailed in the Serbian town of Kragujevac. For the police records Marković gave his occupation as a writer; the local authorities recorded that he […]
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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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Written by Janet Biehl. Excerpt from Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics (Boston: South End Press, 1991), pp150-157. Social ecology distinguishes between statecraft, as a system of dealing with the public realm by means of professionalized administrators and their legal monopoly on violence, on the one hand, and politics, as the management of the community on a grassroots […]
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Documentary about Yellow Vests’ Commune of Communes – a democratic confederalist structurd that strongly resembles libertarian municipalism. Filmed and produced by Claire Combes, subtitles in English by Sixtine van Outryve.
Read More Commune of Communes (documentary)Power to destroy, power to create: building a culture of resistance – towards radical social change Date: 25 – 27 October 2019 Location: Athens, Greece Since the collapse the Soviet Union and more recently with the resurgence of populist and fascist governments, the global Left is in disarray; but regional and local alternatives […]
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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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