Can Bernie Sanders save us from Artificial Intelligence?

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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June 23, 2026
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Bookchin and the Legacy of Direct Democracy

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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June 10, 2026
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Interview with Murray Bookchin on Libertarian Municipalism and More (12-11-1996)

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, […]

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June 6, 2026
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Interview with Andriy Movchan, who sailed to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla

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 […]

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May 27, 2026
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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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