Written by Dimitri Roussopoulos Few cities, if any, can claim to have and continue to be a laboratory of Social Ecology, like Montreal. To be sure, various aspects of Social Ecology are being applied in Northeasten parts of Syria, namely Rojava. But, major components of Social Ecology, as pioneered and advanced by Murray Bookchin, have […]
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Written by Roger Jacobs To come straight to the point: I can’t trace back when and how I was introduced to the writings of Murray Bookchin. At some point in the 1980s, I picked up a Dutch reader with four of his most important essays.1 Perhaps I was motivated by this reader to procure more […]
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Written by Alexandros Schismenos, Ph.D. In the fourth year of the Age of Artificial Intelligence, while the world seems to be overwhelmed by governments’ institutionalized technophilia and futurists’ populist technophobia, official calls for some form of technoskepticism are beginning to multiply. In recent months, two distinct forms of technoskepticism regarding Artificial Intelligence have been voiced […]
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Written by Yavor Tarinski. Cross-posted from Social Ecology & Communalism Workshop. [Murray Bookchin] was a true son of the Enlightenment in his respect for clear thought and moral responsibility and in his honest, uncompromising search for a realistic hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin[1] With the fall of the Soviet Union, but also with the continuous […]
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An interview with Murray Bookchin, conducted by Janet Biehl on 12 November 1996 in Burlington, Vermont. First appeared in: JANET BIEHL, The Politics of Social Ecology, Libertarian Municipalism, Black Rose Books, Montreal etc., 1998 pp 145-176. Janet Biehl: Murray, one of your anarchist critics has taken your slogan “Democratize the republic and radicalize the democracy” and, […]
Read More Interview with Murray Bookchin on Libertarian Municipalism and More (12-11-1996)
Ukrainian leftist activists Andriy Movchan and Nina Potarska sailed with the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. Today we share an interview with Andriy, conducted by the Greek libertarian journal Aftoleksi, about their experience, their capture by the Israeli army, and the reasons that led him to participate in the Flotilla and unite the struggles against […]
Read More Interview with Andriy Movchan, who sailed to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla
Written by Janet Biehl. Excerpt from the book Ecofascism Revisited: Lessons from the German Experience (New Compass Press, 2011), authored by Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier. A combination of nationalism, authoritarianism, and yearnings for charismatic leaders that is legitimated by a mystical and biologistic ‘ecology’ is potentially socially catastrophic. Just as the völkisch movement ultimately […]
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Written by Costas Despiniadis, translated by Eleni Dimitriadou. The emergence of anarchist ideas in Greece is a very old story. Already in the 19th century, there appeared people influenced by the early socialist ideas of Saint-Simonism, while the first explicitly anarchist newspapers and groups made their appearance at the end of the 19th century, in […]
Read More Murray Bookchin in Greece: The Publication of his Works and the Impact of his Ideas
Written by Guido Viale for Comune-Info. In its eighty years of existence, the State of Israel has transformed a multitude of migrants and refugees in search of a “hearth” into a phalanx of criminals. Israel is the Sparta of the third millennium: all its citizens, male and female, are involved directly or indirectly in military […]
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Dr. Eleanor Finley reviews Yavor Tarinski’s latest book Horizons of Direct Democracy: Revolutionary Politics in an Age of Social & Environmental Collapse (On Our Own Authority! Publishing, 2025). It is no secret that our current global order is in chaos. From the global scale to the local, critical social, economic, and political systems are breaking […]
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