Mobilizing Social Ecology Podcast #1: A Talk with Eleanor Finley

  Mobilizing Social Ecology is a podcast of the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (trise.net). It explores ecological and democratic transformations for collective liberation and life-sustaining worlds. In this episode our guest is Eleanor Finley, a public anthropologist, social ecology educator and organizer, who has been directly engaged with radical democracy movements for over 15 […]

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October 28, 2025
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Sociology of Freedom: a world where many worlds fit

Written by Vittorio Sergi Abbesmuseum in Eindhoven is a small structure in post-modern architecture in the midst of a residential neighborhood of modern colonial Dutch-style cottages just across the canal that surrounds the historic center. The museum houses a diverse, and unusual by Italian standards, collection of critical post-colonial artworks and information installations. Henry Von […]

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July 13, 2025
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Hawzhin Azeez: “The Children of War Know Its Human Costs”

Written by Hawzhin Azeez. She holds a PhD in political science and International Relations, from the University of Newcastle, Australia. Azeez is the creator of The Middle Eastern Feminist and was formerly the Co-Director of The Kurdish Center for Studies (English branch). Previously she has taught at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS), as […]

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June 20, 2025
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Y. Tarinski: “If we want autonomy, we must actively construct it”

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 […]

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June 10, 2025
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The Epochal Crisis of Global Capitalism – Challenges for Popular Resistance from Below

Excerpt from the speech William I. Robinson delivered at the Peoples’ Platform Europe Conference held in Vienna, Austria in 14-16 February 2025. Global capitalism faces an unprecedented crisis. It is a stage of absolute, violent predation. Its extermination impulse is now rising to the surface. Our burning challenge in this situation is to renovate projects […]

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June 4, 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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May 26, 2025
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TEV-EKO: Statement on the New Political Period

Statement by the European Ecological Movement for Kurdistan (TEV-EKO) from 12.05.2025. The 12th Congress of the PKK, which was held on 5-7 May 2025, and the statement issued afterwards represent a new turning point in the peoples’ struggle for freedom and democracy. The decisions taken have a historical significance not only for the Kurdish people, […]

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May 14, 2025
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Strategic Transformation? The PKK’s Self-Dissolution within the Framework of Democratic Modernity

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. […]

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May 13, 2025
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The Democratic Modernism of Svetozar Marković and Abdullah Öcalan

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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April 24, 2025
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WTF Is Social Ecology?

Article: Usufruct Collective. Illustration: Bella Harter. Cross-posted from DOPE magazine. From climate change, to deforestation, to destruction of biodiversity and habitats, to ocean acidification, to air, water and soil pollution, and beyond: the world is undergoing a colossal ecological crisis. If business as usual continues without sufficient opposition and alternatives, there will be escalating disasters. […]

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April 7, 2025
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