Bookchin’s Living Legacy: from Social Ecology to Culture(s) of Resistance

Speech delivered by Federico Venturini at the International Tribute to Murray Bookchin, 30 July 2026, organised by the Netzwerk für Kommunalismus. I am very pleased and honoured to take part in this international tribute to Murray Bookchin on the  twentieth anniversary of his death. I never had the pleasure of meeting Murray in person and I […]

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August 1, 2026
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Murray Bookchin’s Legacy of Freedom

Written by Ramazan Kaya. The following review of the Turkish edition of Bookchin’s “The Third Revolution Volume 1: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era” was originally published on 3rd of June, 2012, on the website of the Turkish left-wing magazine Birikim. Translated into English by Ertuğ Dinseven. “Bookchin’s Anarchism gets it’s revolutionary fire from Bakunin […]

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July 30, 2026
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Montreal and Murray Bookchin

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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July 12, 2026
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Murray Bookchin In Flanders Fields (Belgium)

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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June 28, 2026
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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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