Written by Dr. Federico Venturini, Human Geographer and Social Ecologist This is a personal relection on an activist-researcher’s experience as a peace delegate. As with all stories, let’s start from the beginning. I believe in freedom and I work towards the elimination of all forms of domination. For this reason I am embedded in many […]
Read More An Activist-Researcher as a Peace Delegate
A global coalition of academics, activists and organisations, among whom John Holloway and Debbie Bookchin, has issued a statement condemning Turkey’s ongoing military operations in North and East Syria. The statement, signed by 183 individuals and 35 collectives, called for urgent international intervention to prevent further “crimes against humanity”. The undersigned express our solidarity with […]
Read More Stop war against humanity in North and East Syria: Stop Turkey’s war and occupation policies
Written by Maria Dandoulaki. Holder of a BA in Education and currently a Master’s Student in Degrowth and Political Ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Maria is an ecological activist and academically is interested in the Political Ecology and Economy of food, Agroecology, Critical-Alternative Pedagogies, and anti-authoritarian perspectives towards radical socio-ecological transformations. June 25th […]
Read More Degrowing neo-Nazism – Reflections from the Greek 2023 elections and strategy against far-right politics
Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi writes about the popular responses to the floods that have caused death and destruction in the Thessaly region of Central Greece. The mayors and regional leaders need to listen carefully this time: Neither in Thessaly nor anywhere else, never again FOR us, WITHOUT us! Self-organization is blossoming on the wreckage left by the […]
Read More The flame of self-organization and solidarity burns in the Thessalian plain!
Fourth segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. The excitement, arriving in Odessa, is comparable to that felt in Jerusalem, Istanbul or New York. Cities that command respect for their history, human diversity and cultural […]
Read More In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 4 – Odessa)
Third segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. I meet Sergey from Solidarity Collectives at the headquarters of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Kiev. I am here with friends from the Social Municipalities of Bologna, […]
Read More In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 3 – Kyiv)
Second segment from social ecologist Davide Grasso’s conversations with Ukrainian grassroots collectives. Grasso is currently travelling throughout Ukraine to meet political activists from anarchist, feminist, and socialist movements. In Kiev I met several militants of the Solidarity Collectives, known for their support of resistance and internationalism. They were founded by anarchists and now group together […]
Read More In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 2 – Kyiv)
Social ecologist Davide Grasso, who is currently in Ukraine, speaks about his dialogues with local leftist activists on the situation in the country. Available also in Greek HERE. I am currently in Ukraine to learn about the voices of social and military resistance to the Russian invasion that are closer to my worldview. The hegemony […]
Read More In conversation with Ukrainian grassroots collectives (Part 1 – Lviv)
Written by Netzwerk für Kommunalismus. Below we present an English translation of the original German text. July 24, 2023 150 years after the foundation of the Anti-Authoritarian International more than 4000 anarchists and left-libertarians met at St. Imier, a small town in the Swiss Jura mountains. Among them were also Communalists. During the five-day meeting […]
Read More Communalists use meeting at St. Imier to strengthen bonds and build collective power
Photoreportage by Efthymis Hadjitheodorou for our Greek comrades at Aftoleksi. The egalitarian relations which I found in the Jura Mountains, the independence of thought and expression which I saw developing in the workers, and their unlimited devotion to the cause appealed far more strongly to my feelings; and when I came away from the mountains, […]
Read More Report from the international anarchist meeting in St. Imier, Switzerland
