Article by Eleanor Finley, originally published in ROAR magazine in February 2017 Humanity stands at a crossroads. Now, more than ever, history calls for a grassroots democracy at a global scale. If we look carefully, all the tools are at hand. “Whether the twenty-first century will be the most radical of times or the most […]
Read More Reason, creativity and freedom: the communalist modelWe are proud to present the keynote speakers of our Conference in Thessaloniki 1-3 of September! Read the full program of the conference here! Brian Morris, London Keynote speech title: “The legacy of Murray Bookchin” Brian Morris is emeritus professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College at the University of London. He is a […]
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Article by Olli Tammilehto, originally published in the book Sustainable Futures: Replacing Growth Imperative and Hierarchies with Sustainable Ways in 2009 (written in October 2008). Our ecological situation on the Earth is very precarious. We are on the verge of global climate catastrophe. Humanity has only a short period of time to change its metabolism with […]
Read More Rapid Social Change as a Pre-Requisite For Preventing Global Climate CatastropheArticle by Enric Bárcena, Xavi Ferrer, Laura Roth and TRISE member Kate Shea Baird, originally published in Spanish in Público.es on 21/12/16. The municipalist movements of the Spanish state can’t ignore the global crisis of neoliberalism. It’s up to us to stand up and defend our idea of bottom up, feminist and radically democratic change. […]
Read More Why the municipal movement must be internationalist
“Democracy was born at local level, and that’s where we can win it back.” Barcelona en Comú – the radical citizen platform currently running the city, invites to an international municipalist summit in June 9-11 called Fearless cities! The event will include debates and workshops on key policy areas and municipalist organizing. An excerpt from […]
Read More “Fearless Cities” – a summit on the new municipalism, by Barcelona en Comú
Article by Ines Morales Bernardos. Originaly published in the openMovements series on Open Democracy. Republished here with the authors permission. Their insurrectionary politics of autonomy, such as food autonomy in Athens, is crucial for building new solidarities and emancipatory imaginaries within cities. —- “Every town should have its agora, where all who are […]
Read More Building new solidarities between movements: insurrectionary politics of food autonomy in the city of Athens
The Right to the City and Social Ecology – Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities The TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY (TRISE) is glad to announce its fourth conference, taking place in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 1st to 3rd of September 2017. Follows here the description of the call for papers which closed on […]
Read More Call for Papers! Closed on the 1st of July
Interview by Antonis Broumas and Yavor Tarinski Some believe that the commons are incompatible with commodity markets. Others claim that markets and commons may form mutually beneficial relations with each other. What are your own views on this issue? I think it is entirely possible for markets and commons to “play nicely together,” but only […]
Read More The Future is a “Pluriverse”- An Interview with David Bollier on the Potential of the CommonsReport of the Third Imrali Peace Delegation, based on its Visit to Turkey, Feb. 13-19, 2017, in which TRISE members Dimitri Roussopoulos and Federico Venturini took part. INTRODUCTION The events of the past year-and-a-half demonstrate very clearly that there can be no democracy in Turkey without a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish question. The political situation in […]
Read More State terror, human rights violations, and authoritarianism in Turkey
Written by Yavor Tarinski The apocalyptic images that we see in contemporary fictional cinema and literature seem to be not that far from materializing and in real life. Talks about the end of life as we know it are beginning to make more sense as information about the possible consequences of the unfolding global warming […]
Read More Our best chance for solving the climate crisis — direct democracy and equality
