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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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 […]
Read More Bookchin’s Influence on Öcalan and the PKK’s Evolution
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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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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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 […]
Read More Elisée Reclus: Advice to My Anarchist Comrades
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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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 […]
Read More No to Foreign Intervention, Shahs, and Mullahs: Freedom Only Comes From Below
The Community of the Occupied Prosfygika is one of the most emblematic examples of an autonomous urban housing community in Greece and Europe. Read more about their history HERE. Today, it is once again facing the threat of the State. In the summer of 2025, a programmatic contract was signed between the Region of Attica, […]
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Written by Selva Varengo The work of Murray Bookchin, who was interested in ecological issues since 1952, arrived in Italy for the first time in 1974 thanks to the anarchist monthly, A Rivista, which publishes Tecnologia e rivoluzione libertaria; later taken up again in the same year by the magazine Volontà. Starting with the first […]
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We are launching a small grassroots fundraising campaign to cover the proofreading costs of the forthcoming edited volume Power to Create, Power to Destroy: Toward Cultures of Resistance and Radical Social Change, edited by Federico Venturini, Théo Rouhette, and Marcy Isabella and to be published by Punctum Books. The book brings together critical voices from […]
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