Elements of Liberatory Social Movement Organizations
Foundational elements for social movement organizations seeking to develop free and egalitarian social relations.
Authoritarianism, Anti-Jewish racism, and The Israel-Hamas War: An Open letter to the Left
By Chaia Heller: “The aim here is to address two problems emerging amidst the current war, challenging the left to present a principled response to both the dynamics of authoritarianism and rising anti-Jewish racism.”
A Second Nakba: Paving the Way to Genocide
Mason Herson-Hord explains the unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza through the history of Israel’s radical right’s ascension to power.
“Over the course of these decades, there was a resulting shift in Israeli political consciousness where the historical necessity of the Nakba for the creation of the Jewish state transitioned from a truth to be masked or denied to one to be embraced and carried forward into Israel’s expansionist future.”
Keeping Pace: Confronting the Quickening Pace of Climate Change
In late October, Kali Akuno and Michelle Eddleman McCormick held an important conversation about preparing for climate disaster as it outpaces all of our models. They focused on the devastating floods that hit Central Vermont this summer, despite Vermont’s projections to be among the most climate stable regions of the US. Video to be posted soon on the ISE’s YouTube channel.
“Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV”: A Collective Stance to Demand Our World Back
The 2023 “Challenging Capitalist Modernity” conference in Hamburg brought together over a thousand activists and academics from all over the world for three days of utopian discourse.
2023 Detroit ISE Summer Intensive: All Power to the People
Our summer intensive, “All Power to the People!: Social Ecology and the Black Radical Tradition” in Detroit, was hosted with the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center.
The Uses and Misuses of the Just Transition Framework in South Africa: A Conversation with Phethani Madzivhandila
Kali Akuno in conversation with Pan Africanist historian Phethani Madzivhandila on the uses and misuses of the Just Transition framework in South Africa.
June course offering – Confronting Ecofascism
We offered a brand-new course recently, entitled “Confronting Ecofascism: Environmental Politics and the Radical Right,” and taught by a group of experts on the history and thought of ecofascism. The course ran from June 7 – June 28. You can register for the self-directed version at any time.
Book Review – Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right
“There have been significant links between environmentalism and Right-wing politics for more than a century,” Staudenmaier writes in his new book Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right. “Knowingly or not, the perpetrators of the Christchurch and El Paso massacres continued that tradition.”
History Feature: How is Vermont like a ‘Third World’ country?
A 1971 pamphlet, popular during the early years of the ISE, sparked a statewide conversation about absentee ownership and neo-colonialism in Vermont.