Report by ANF As part of the Hamburg conference “We want our world back” from the event series “Challenging Capitalist Modernity”, 23 workshops took place on Saturday. The venues had to be moved due to the cancellation of the Audimax at short notice by the administration of the University of Hamburg under pressure from the […]
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TRISE member Federico Venturini teams up with artist and activist Ángela del Río to translate in images his book chapter “The Value of Social Ecology in the Struggles to Come”* in an effort to Looting the Ivory Tower. *Published in: Hunt, S. E. (ed.). Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and […]
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Written by Theodoros Karyotis An update for English-speaking friends who want to make sense of what is happening in Greece: Late at night on February 28th, the collision of two trains in the recently privatised and chronically degraded railways left at least 57 dead, most of them students at Thessaloniki’s local universities. Since then, there […]
Read More Mass demos and strikes all over Greece in response to deadly train collision
As humanitarian aid fails to reach north-western Syria, where the rebel-held area of Kurdistan is located, women and men are organizing themselves to cope with the humanitarian emergency they are experiencing after a 7.8 earthquake and a war that began 12 years ago. Text: Daliri Oropeza Alvarez | Source The border between Turkey and Syria […]
Read More Women’s communes are being organized in Kurdistan, Syria and Turkey in response to the earthquake
Written by Yavor Tarinski A vote, even a free vote, may be only – and often is only – a parody of democracy. Democracy is not the right to vote on secondary issues. Real [democracy] lies in being able to decide for oneself on all essential questions in full knowledge of the relevant facts. ~Cornelius […]
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Written by Alexandros Schismenos “BERNANDA – Then why are we on strike? MOHAMET – Listen to her! Because they too are a step. LUCAS – Like a step after a strike, it’s a squat. CROWD – Go on then. Go get ’em, and we’ve got ’em!” Skourtis, “Strike or the struggle of the classes by […]
Read More The history of Art is also a history of Autonomy
Text in the banner: Ecocommunalismo para cambiarlo todo, Bienvenido a Lozoya (Ecocommunalism to change it all, Welcome to Lozoya) On the 28th of January 2023 was organized the first Encounter on social ecology and communalism of the Iberian Peninsula. The purpose of the encounter was to gather activists and people interested in communalism and discuss […]
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Announcemen by the recuperated self-managed VIO.ME factory in Thessaloniki, Greece. Today we are in the unfortunate position to inform you that VIO.ME is in more danger than ever. The judiciary and capital have quietly sold off the land on which the plant is located to a fund. We, the workers of VIO.ME, declare that we […]
Read More They want to kill VIO.ME. Don’t let them!
Written by Andy Price. This is the preface to Price’s book “Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time” (New Compass, 2012). At an academic conference several years ago, I attended a workshop directed to an examination of Murray Bookchin and his place in the anarchist tradition. There, after giving a paper I […]
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We share with our readers the call for papers of the forthcoming conference Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV, organized by the Network for an Alternative Quest. Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV: We want our world back! Resist, Reclaim and Rebuild Do Autonomous Education and Organize IV. Conference: 7―9 April 2023, University of Hamburg Call for Papers Dear […]
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