Past Events
Book Launch Recording: "Montréal: A Citizen’s Guide to City Politics"
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On October 5th we launched Montreal: A Citizen's Guide to City Politics. Our conversation focused on the political situation in Montreal ahead of the November municipal elections.
Life, Freedom, & Ethics: Kropotkin Now! International Conference
Posted by Rose Black on
An international conference to commemorate the anarchist thinker and geographer Peter Kropotkin, a century since his death.
Enlightenment and Ecology: The Legacy of Murray Bookchin in the 21st Century Book Launch
Posted by Rose Black on
The 14th of January marks 100 years of Murray Bookchin's birth. This is a significant anniversary for us as we believe his thought, always political and directed towards radical social change, is of crucial importance for our future. For this reason we chose to invite some of the contributors of the book Enlightenment and Ecology to a dialogue about Bookchin's legacy today.
Your Freedom and Mine: On the Kurdish Movement
Posted by Rose Black on
August 15, 1984, signals the beginning of the Kurdish freedom movement led by Abdullah Öcalan. The revolution in Rojava would not have been possible without decades of resistance and the ideological works of Öcalan and the PKK, which had special emphasis on the principles of participatory democracy, confederal solidarity, anti-capitalism, dual power, and feminism (expressed in Jineology).
The Forgotten Revolution: The 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils
Posted by Rose Black on
The 1919 rebellion by the Habsburg Empire’s Hungarian subjects—millions of working men and women—has not been treated kindly by historians over the past century for fear that full disclosure of its true dimensions may spark a repeat performance on a global scale, bringing both capitalism and socialism as we know them to their knees.