Pan-African Social Ecology: A conversation with Dr Modibo Kadalie

A dialogue between pan-African social ecologist Dr. Modibo Kadalie and The Final Straw Radio (TFSR) on the occasion of his books Pan-African Social Ecology published by On Our Own Authority!) as well as Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes (published by One Quest Press). A version of Dr. Kadalie’s conversation with Andrew Zonneveld […]

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March 10, 2026
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Murray Bookchin in Italy

Written by Selva Varengo The work of Murray Bookchin, who was interested in ecological issues since 1952, arrived in Italy for the first time in 1974 thanks to the anarchist monthly, A Rivista, which publishes Tecnologia e rivoluzione libertaria; later taken up again in the same year by the magazine Volontà. Starting with the first […]

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February 17, 2026
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Spreading Murray Bookchin’s Ideas in Germany

Written by Wolfgang Haug In September 1978, an anarchist group in Southern Germany founded the publishing group, Trotzdem Verlag. At that time, many activists had ceased their political activities because of the increasing repression after the deadly attacks by the Marxist-Leninist Red Army faction and the fatal response by German police. In 1979, I came […]

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January 7, 2026
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The Unique Contribution of Murray Bookchin to Political Thought

Written by Jean-François Filion The life of the Social Ecologist, Murray Bookchin, was exemplary. His political and theoretical commitment is a model of depth and courage. Regardless of the fate the future holds for his doctrine, regardless of the memory of the intellectual disputes in which he participated, Murray Bookchin will remain a major reference […]

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December 1, 2024
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Found in Translation: Murray Bookchin’s Social Ecology in Turkey

Written by Stephen Hunt 1980s-1990s In the present day, many political activists in Turkey are familiar with Murray Bookchin’s ideas, especially in the Kurdish-majority region of the South East. When Abdullah Öcalan adopted and adapted Bookchin’s political theory, he significantly amplified his influence. Commentators such as Carne Ross have spoken of the “remarkable” nature of […]

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February 16, 2024
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The Modern Crisis – Book Review

Federico Venturini reviews Bookchin’s The Modern Crisis (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2022.). Originally published in The AAG Review of Books. A Republishing Endeavor1 The latest edition of The Modern Crisis, published in 2022, is part of an ongoing effort to amplify the work of Murray Bookchin, the founder of social ecology and the political project […]

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January 30, 2024
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An interview with Murray Bookchin (Burlington 20-7-1994)

-Despite the increasing disillusion that people in western countries have with professional politicians, we see that to a large extent instead of seeking to create a new liberatory project they turn to charismatic but demagogic “leaders” such as Berlusconi in Italy. Lepen in France, Zirinofski in Russia and Pero in the U.S.A..What do you think […]

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December 26, 2023
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Beyond the Caricature: The Need to Recover Bookchin

Written by Andy Price. This is the preface to Price’s book “Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time” (New Compass, 2012). At an academic conference several years ago, I attended a workshop directed to an examination of Murray Bookchin and his place in the anarchist tradition. There, after giving a paper I […]

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February 2, 2023
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Murray Bookchin: The man who brought radical ecology and assembly democracy into the Left

Written by Janet Biehl Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) understood earlier than almost anyone that an ecological crisis was not only looming but posted a challenge to capitalism and the whole social order. In the 1950s and 1960s, before most people even knew what ecology was, he was proposing fundamental solutions. Being ahead of his time, however, meant that his ideas were either ignored […]

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October 9, 2022
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Cities: The Unfolding of Reason in History

Written by Murray Bookchin. Originally published as a chapter of the book “The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies & the Promise of Direct Democracy” (2015) Libertarian municipalism constitutes the politics of social ecology, a revolutionary effort in which freedom is given institutional form in public assemblies that become decision-making bodies. It depends upon libertarian leftists running […]

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January 5, 2022
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