ISE’s 50th anniversary this August! Register now!
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The ISE is approaching its 50th anniversary and we invite you to celebrate with us the August 23-25, at North Calais Memorial Hall on Number 10 Pond in Central Vermont.
Elements of Liberatory Social Movement Organizations
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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
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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.”
“Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV”: A Collective Stance to Demand Our World Back
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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
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“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?
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A 1971 pamphlet, popular during the early years of the ISE, sparked a statewide conversation about absentee ownership and neo-colonialism in Vermont.
Symbiosis Northeast Regional Gathering in NYC
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Participants in the May gathering were united by a strong left-libertarian outlook rooted in municipalism, autonomy and aspirations toward a broadly defined communalist politics.
New report on North American municipalism
The authors argue that real democracy and communalism require deep reckoning with Eurocentric assumptions about land, citizenship, and participation.
A Jaywalking Manifesto
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A manifesto of urban theory drawing on Bookchin, Lefebvre, and Harvey that examines jaywalking as a form of urban class warfare.
On the IPCC’s latest climate report: What does it tell us?
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On the key findings and radical implications of last summer’s IPCC climate report.