Tenants’ Power and Dual Strategy! Reflections from Bostadsvrålet!

Written by Nikos Vrantsis Recently we discussed what Swedish tenants’ unions might learn from struggles abroad. Sweden has one of the largest tenants’ unions in the world, with around half a million members. Yet despite its size, the union has become so institutionalized that landlords keep winning. Rents rise year after year despite mandatory negotiations; […]

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November 16, 2025

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Protesters storm this year’s COP30 Climate Conference

Written by Yavor Tarinski Protesters managed to enter the venue for this year’s 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belem, Brazil, yesterday and clashed with security guards at the entrance. With slogans such as “Our land is not for sale!”, indigenous peoples and environmental organizations are protesting and demanding real action to mitigate climate change […]

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November 13, 2025

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Worker-led Production

Written by Theodoros Karyotis. Worker-led production refers to a diverse set of practices that aim to give protagonism to the subjects of labour: the workers themselves. Throughout the industrial era, with its associated processes of deskilling and mechanization, workers not only have demanded a bigger share of the profits through union struggles but have also […]

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John Holloway: Perspectives in the Storm

Anticapitalist sociologist John Holloway—renowned for his work on revolution and social movements—spoke at the Peoples’ Platform Europe in Vienna, delivering a powerful message on rejecting capitalist inhumanity and building new forms of social connection. Below an excerpt from his speech: Anger. We come here to express our anger. Our anger against the militarisation of the […]

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February 19, 2025

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Casa encantada: A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte (e-book)

  “Casa encantada: A Portrait of the Fight for Housing in Belo Horizonte” is a book that brings together illustrations by Renato Baruq and photographs by Cadu Passos, both from the Kasa Invisível squat in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. During 2022 and 2023, the two Brazilian artists and organizers documented almost 20 old abandoned houses in the […]

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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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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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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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An Ecological and Democratic Social Movement

Written by Gustave Massiah. We thank Feroz Mehdi for the translation into English. In 2023, France has entered a new period of social and political crisis. The crisis has highlighted the social, ecological and democratic contradictions. The mobilizations are significant. The social movement against the pension reform is continuing. The ecological protest has become more […]

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May 11, 2023

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True justice for Zhina looks like genuine change, inclusiveness and humanity

True justice for Zhina looks like genuine change, inclusiveness and humanity

Written by Hawzhin Azeez As the diverse peoples of Iran protest against their regime following the death of 22 year old Kurdish woman Zhina Mehsa Amini we need to remember an important fact: Iran is not a homogenous entity of one culture, one people, one language, one ethnicity. You protest the murder of Zhina’s womenhood […]

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September 26, 2022

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