Tribute to Murray Bookchin 20 Years Later
Organized by the Netzwerk für Kommunalismus 30 July, 2026Eleanor Finley, Ph.D. Twenty years ago today, the world said goodbye to one of its most important visionary thinkers, Murray Bookchin. I was asked here today to share about Murray’s contributions to today’s social movements and how his work resonates with young people. That theme raises some […]
Remembering our friend and comrade Carlos “Chino” Garcia
¡Chino García, Presente!By Dan Chodorkoff A hero has passed. Carlos “Chino” García died Friday, July 24th. Chino was a teacher, a leader, and aninspiration to generations of activists on New York’s Lower East Side. He and Bimbo Rivas coined thename Loisaida for their neighborhood. He was a force to be reckoned with. At age 16 […]
In Memoriam: Claudia Bagiackas
Claudia Bagiackas joined the ISE community in 1993 as an ISE Masters student studying radical educational pedagogy from a social ecology perspective. In 1995, she became program coordinator. Before joining the ISE, Claudia spent decades teaching and directing Montessori education in Ohio, where her family lived. She believed deeply in primary education as a foundation […]
Course offering this summer: Philosophy of Fascism
The class will be offered on Wednesday afternoons (US Eastern time) from July 1 – August 19, 2026. Register via the link below. We will read together selections from some of the key works of the: Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer, Dialectics of Enlightenment (1947) Walter Benjamin, Theses […]
An Important New Book on the Praxis of Social Ecology
A review of Eleanor Finley’s new book, Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond
Interview with German translator of The Ecology of Freedom
Interview with Dr. Maurice Schumann, who has recently published the first complete German translation of Murray Bookchin’s The Ecology of Freedom.
ISE 2025 Summer Fundraiser
The Institute for Social Ecology is launching a critical fundraiser this summer to maintain and expand our programs around political education and social movement support – Help the ISE build grassroots power! “What compels me to fight this society is, of course, outrage over injustice, a love of freedom, and a feeling of responsibility for […]
Now available for download: Brian Tokar’s “Earth for Sale”
Brian Tokar’s widely-acclaimed book, Earth for Sale, largely disappeared from circulation soon after its publisher, South End Press, went out of business in 2014. The entire book is available here for download for the first time.
2024 Trise Conference
Marcel Suter describes how European social ecologists are building toward an inclusive and diverse “we.”
Cosmic Anarchy and the Law of Increasing Complexity
If the entire universe follows laws of natural selection, what could this mean for social ecological views of nature?
