Politics as Everyday Life: Gender, Memory, and Democratic Practice in the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), Amed

Written by Katarina Milutinović and Aisha Mustafayeva “Têkoşîn ne tenê ji bo azadiyê ye, têkoşîn bixwe azadî ye.” (“Struggle is not merely for freedom; the struggle itself is freedom.”) ~Sakine Cansız Arrival in Amed It was July, and the scorching sun in Amed, the Kurdish name for Diyarbakır (Bakur, Northern Kurdistan). Two of us had […]

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November 15, 2026
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The Serbian Student Movement: From Student Plenums to Collective Power

Written by anthropologist Katarina Milutinović. Many international friends have been asking me so many thoughtful questions about what’s happening in Serbia, so I tried to gather everything in a more or less small summary in here, from my own perspective and experience. This is of course not the whole picture tho, so if something is […]

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November 1, 2026
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Interview with András B. Göllner: The Essence and Legacy of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

An interview with András B. Göllner, conducted by Yavor Tarinski. Göllner was born in Hungary but resides in Canada. He is an Emeritus Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University and an active civil rights advocate. Göllner has authored and edited five books, among which The Forgotten Revolution: The 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils […]

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October 30, 2026
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Reflections on the Rise of the Far-Right

Written by Konstantinos Deligiannis (European Studies: History, Society and Civilisation, HOU). Translated from Greek by Nikos Gkaragkasidis. The following reflections were prompted by the recent elections in Germany and the rise of the AfD. Emotional immaturity, digital pareidolia and solutions conceived in anger, are shaping and fueling the modern far-right. What is puzzling, however, is […]

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October 13, 2026
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Practicing Social Ecology: Presentation by Eleanor Finley (Audio)

The Transnational Institute of Social Ecology hosted a talk by Eleanor Finley at its social space in Athens on the 20th of September, 2026. The occasion was Eleanor’s trip around Europe and the recent publication of her book “Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond” (Pluto Press, 2025). In her presentation, Eleanor Finley […]

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October 4, 2026
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On Hannah Arendt and Murray Bookchin: Bridging Intellectual Legacies

Written by Jason Toney. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant. ~ Hannah Arendt, On Violence Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind […]

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September 20, 2026
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The Significance of the City for Social Ecology

Written by Giorgos Papahristodoulou In many of Murray Bookchin’s works, the founder of Social Ecology, we find the term “polis.” which derives from the ancient Greek language and translates to “city.” This is not due to a thinker’s unexplained obsession with antiquity, an occurrence typical for those who view historic phenomenas in terms of dominance […]

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September 2, 2026
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The Significance of Spatiality in Bookchin’s Political Project

Speech delivered by Yavor Tarinski at the International Tribute to Murray Bookchin, 30 July 2026, organised by the Netzwerk für Kommunalismus. It is a great pleasure to have been invited to take part in this international commemorative tribute, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the death of Murray Bookchin. I was born and raised in […]

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August 5, 2026
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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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