Reflections on a Revolution

Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance

Bookchin's municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy.
Debating democracy in a European debt colony

Days after Syriza's capitulation to the Troika, radicals from across the world gathered in Athens for a historic conference on the future of democracy.
Erdogan sacrifices peace to entrench his own power

Fearful of Kurdish electoral gains in Turkey and military advances in Syria, Erdogan pushes for war with the PKK to secure his own political future.
Water: source of life and conflict in the Land of Rivers

Oil is often seen as the root cause of conflict in the Middle East, but in the coming years water might come to overtake it as a key source of dispute.
Social media and movements: is the love affair really over?

Social media are monitored and controlled by large corporations. Can they also facilitate the kind of self-organization that defines radical politics?
The PAH: defending the right to housing in Spain

In Spain, where the government bails out banks, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) bails out families and defends their right to housing.
The problem with center-left critiques of neoliberalism

The Polanyian preoccupation with the social limits to the expansion of the market is really just a distraction from our own investment in the status quo.
#TalkReal: is it time for the left to abandon the EU?

Journalist Owen Jones recently asked whether it is time for the left to abandon the EU. In this episode of #TalkReal, four guests discuss the question.
Suruç massacre: today we mourn, tomorrow we rebuild

The bombing of the Amara Cultural Center was meant to inspire fear and keep people from acting in solidarity with Kobane. We must not let ISIS succeed.
Syriza surrenders: time for renewed popular resistance

Now that Syriza has caved in to the creditors, the need for grassroots mobilization is more urgent than ever. A new cycle of struggles is ahead of us.

Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance

by Joris Leverink August 9, 2015 Capitalism & Crisis

Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy.

Debating democracy in a European debt colony

by Chloe Wyma August 8, 2015 Intellectuals & Ideology

Days after Syriza’s capitulation to the Troika, radicals from across the world gathered in Athens for a historic conference on the future of democracy.

Erdogan sacrifices peace to entrench his own power

by Yvo Fitzherbert August 3, 2015 People & Power

Fearful of Kurdish electoral gains in Turkey and military advances in Syria, Erdogan pushes for war with the PKK to secure his own political future.

Water: source of life and conflict in the Land of Rivers

by Joris Leverink August 1, 2015 Environment & Energy

Oil is often seen as the root cause of conflict in the Middle East, but in the coming years water might come to overtake it as a key source of dispute.

Social media and movements: is the love affair really over?

by Thomas Swann July 31, 2015 People & Power

Social media are monitored and controlled by large corporations. Can they also facilitate the kind of self-organization that defines radical politics?

The PAH: defending the right to housing in Spain

by Timothy Ginty July 23, 2015 Capitalism & Crisis

In Spain, where the government bails out banks, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) bails out families and defends their right to housing.

The problem with center-left critiques of neoliberalism

by Martijn Konings July 22, 2015 Capitalism & Crisis

The Polanyian preoccupation with the social limits to the expansion of the market is really just a distraction from our own investment in the status quo.

#TalkReal: is it time for the left to abandon the EU?

by European Alternatives July 22, 2015 Intellectuals & Ideology

Journalist Owen Jones recently asked whether it is time for the left to abandon the EU. In this episode of #TalkReal, four guests discuss the question.

Suruç massacre: today we mourn, tomorrow we rebuild

by Yvo Fitzherbert July 21, 2015 People & Power

The bombing of the Amara Cultural Center was meant to inspire fear and keep people from acting in solidarity with Kobane. We must not let ISIS succeed.

Syriza surrenders: time for renewed popular resistance

by Theodoros Karyotis July 13, 2015 People & Power

Now that Syriza has caved in to the creditors, the need for grassroots mobilization is more urgent than ever. A new cycle of struggles is ahead of us.