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.”
“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.
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.
Harbinger Issue #2: Race, Racism, and White Supremacy
After two years of pandemic delay, we’re very excited to announce that the new issue of Harbinger: a Journal of Social Ecology has now been released. The issue features nine timely contributions, all exploring social ecological perspectives on race, racism, and colonialism.
Tribute to Bruno Latour (1947 – 2022)
Chaia Heller writes, “There is an exciting complementarity between Bookchin and Latour’s approach to understanding the nature of nature—and reality itself.”
Videos from our 2022 summer gathering: Building Ecosocialism From Below
Videos from our 2022 summer gathering, Building Ecosocialism From Below, a collaboration of the ISE with folks from Cooperation Jackson and the People’s Network for Land and Liberation. The videos feature presentations by Kali Akuno, Mason Herson-Hord and many others.
Communalism and Especifismo
An outlook from Uruguay describes how communalists can engage effectively with social movement groups and popular organizations.