A Social Ecology of Freedom Against Ecofascism

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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May 17, 2026
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Murray Bookchin in Greece: The Publication of his Works and the Impact of his Ideas

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 […]

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May 7, 2026
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Living Together Without a State

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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April 22, 2026
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Review of Tarinski’s “Horizons of Direct Democracy”

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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April 19, 2026
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Bookchin’s Influence on Öcalan and the PKK’s Evolution

Written by Hawzhin Azeez Introduction From the writings of a brilliant, but obscure scholar in Burlington, VT, to a lonely jail cell of a revolutionary struggling to reconcile years of revolutionary efforts that failed to produce tangible freedoms for the Kurds, emerged a revolution that was unlike anything previously seen. Through a synthesis between the […]

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April 9, 2026
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Visiting the Rojava Revolution in February 2026

Written by citizen journalists Nathan McDonnell & Baudoin who visited the Rojava Revolution in NE Syria in February 2026. We were very excited for our trip to visit the revolution in Rojava, in Kurdish-majority north-east Syria. In this region, the Kurdish freedom movement is leading the creation of a new society based on direct democracy, […]

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March 27, 2026
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Habermas as a thinker against Google’s “Habermas Machine”

Written by Alexandros Schismenos, Ph.D. Jürgen Habermas passed away on Friday 14 March 2026 at the age of 96. He was the worthy successor to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and a great thinker on democratic politics and communicative action, or indeed on democratic politics as communicative action. Furthermore, he was one of […]

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March 17, 2026
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Elisée Reclus: Advice to My Anarchist Comrades

Written by Elisée Reclus in 1901 Dear Comrades, It is our usual habit to exaggerate both our strengths and our weaknesses. During revolutionary periods, it seems that the least of our actions has incalculably great consequences. On the other hand, during times of stagnation, even though we have dedicated ourselves completely to the cause, our […]

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March 16, 2026
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Pan-African Social Ecology: A conversation with Dr Modibo Kadalie

A dialogue between pan-African social ecologist Dr. Modibo Kadalie and The Final Straw Radio (TFSR) on the occasion of his books Pan-African Social Ecology published by On Our Own Authority!) as well as Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes (published by One Quest Press). A version of Dr. Kadalie’s conversation with Andrew Zonneveld […]

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March 10, 2026
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No to Foreign Intervention, Shahs, and Mullahs: Freedom Only Comes From Below

Written by Hawzhin Azeez Unfortunately for the people of Iran and their long-held aspirations of removing the brutal Ayatollah regime, Trump’s killing of Khamenei has only served to create a martyr – a martyr that will soften his brutal legacy for many, increase support from hardliners for the regime, and move many moderate Iranians to […]

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March 2, 2026
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