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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An interview with political writer Yavor Tarinski for the Greek newspaper Empros on the visions for united Balkans, the communes of history and the possibility of direct democracy today. The Greek version was published in the 21.05.25 issue of the newspaper. The questions were made by Pavlos Maragkos. Pavlos Maragkos: You are an author that […]
Read More Y. Tarinski: “If we want autonomy, we must actively construct it”
Written by Yavor Tarinski To many the news of PKK dissolving itself came as a thunder bolt from the blue sky. Such a surprise mostly comes from an absence of knowledge on the writings of Öcalan and the project of Democratic Modernity that has been adopted by the Kurdish freedom movement couple of decades ago. […]
Read More Strategic Transformation? The PKK’s Self-Dissolution within the Framework of Democratic Modernity
Written by Yavor Tarinski Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart. ~Matthew Desmond[1] The issue of housing is of fundamental importance that has a direct connection, among other basic rights, to democratic participation. Despite that (or because of it) it is being contested by capitalist forces worldwide. Capitalist […]
Read More Right to housing and its relation to democracy
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 […]
Read More From citizens of nations to citizens of cities
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 […]
Read More Voices for an Israel-Palestine Confederation
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 […]
Read More Anti-colonialism and direct democracy
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
We present to you the new publication from TRISE, entitled Asking questions with the Zapatistas: Reflections from Greece on our Civilizational Impasse, authored by TRISE members Theodoros Karyotis, Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi, and Yavor Tarinski. Editor: Matthew Little | Cover: Apollon Petropoulos | Design: George Chelebiev Publisher: Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) | Year: 2022 […]
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By Yavor Tarinski We have become a civilization based on work – not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself. ~David Graeber (Bullshit Jobs, 2018, pXXIV) Free time has been, for some time now, undergoing a steady reduction. With the increasing “uberisation” of economies worldwide, people find less and less […]
Read More Time, Leisure, Work: De-bureaucratizing Everyday Life