A blueprint for a future bonus Communalist Library using AmuseWiki software

Introduction

This is a rough attempt at showing the benefits of creating a bonus communalist library with AmuseWiki software, plus sketching out a vision of what a future library will look like.

Online libraries that run on AmuseWiki software provide high quality online web browser versions of texts, along with various other formats, like PDFs, plain text, HTML, EPUB, and XeLaTeX.

This means texts can be DIY printed to high quality formatting, plus at low ink cost, rather than trying to print from a photoscan.

All AmuseWiki sites also provide a way for distributors and friends to change the layout of the PDFs and to create collections of an arbitrary number of texts (1 or more). See the bookbuilder page.

The sites also have an advanced search engine where you can find a text you want to read by searching a short sentence and it will search the full contents of every text on the library.

Also, it standardizes the various formats and bad quality scans that exist of texts, for example I typed up this photocopied to death image so that people could find it easier to read:

There’s also lots of cool features like a text collections system people can incorporate:

Finally, with the library working like a wiki, you can have 1, a few, or many librarians deciding on what texts ultimately get published and deleted, however, anyone can submit edits and new texts, so it isn’t one person doing all the work.

The Current Communalist Library Today

Welcome to the Online Library for the Communalism Discord. We have collected many works both directly and indirectly connected to Social Ecology, Libertarian Municipalism and Communalism. Hopefully you will find this resource useful.

Perspectives on Palestine

As genocide unfolds in Palestine, movements from around the world have expressed their solidarity with the brave resistance of the Palestinian people. These booklets discuss the history and context of the conflict, and look for lasting solutions.

• For an Internationalist Intifada/Serhildan

• Reflections on the Palestinian and Kurdish Resistance

• PKK Internationalists in the Palestinian Resistance

An introduction to Communalism & Social Ecology

The following are helpful introductory texts to get an understanding of the basics of Social Ecology and Communalism, by a variety of authors. They vary in length, from pamphlets and articles to books.

• Social Ecology by Emily McGuire

• Social Ecology and Communalism by Murray Bookchin

• Social Ecology by Brian Tokar

• Reason, Creativity and Freedom by Eleanor Finley

• Communalism: A Liberatory Alternative

• Remaking Society by Murray Bookchin

• The Next Revolution by Murray Bookchin

• The Murray Bookchin Reader by Janet Biehl

Social Ecology in-depth

Social ecology constitutes the philosophical and anthropological aspects of Communalism’s political philosophy. The following works are more in-depth analyses of social ecology from both a philosophical and anthropological perspective.

• The Philosophy of Social Ecology

• The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin

• The Anthropology of Utopia

• Pan-African Social Ecology by Modibo Kadalie

• Intimate Direct Democracy by Modibo Kadalie

• The Ecology of Everyday Life by Chaia Heller

• Toward Climate Justice by Brian Tokar

• Pioneers of Ecological Humanism by Brian Morris

• Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism by Brian Morris

• Ecology — The Rebellion of the Environment by Abdullah Öcalan

Politics & Libertarian Municipalism

Libertarian Municipalism is the political strategy developed by Murray Bookchin. The following texts discuss this strategy as well as politics seen through a Communalist lens, from the city to the confederation.

• The Confederation as the Commune of Communes by Debbie Bookchin & Sixtine van Outryve

• The New Municipal Model by Eleanor Finley

• The Politics of Social Ecology by Janet Biehl

• Urbanization without Cities by Murray Bookchin

• Social Ecology & the Right to the City by Various Authors

• Reclaiming Cities by Yavor Tarinski

• City, Municipality, Commune by Yavor Tarinsky

• A Politics for the 99% by Marco Rosaire Conrad-Rossi

• The Limits of the City by Murray Bookchin

• City and Ecology

• Fearless Cities by Various

• Rebel Cities by David Harvey

Looking back at Bookchin

These texts reflect on Bookchin’s life, work and and legacy, giving more insight into the debates of his time and the political climate of the times, as well as constructive critiques.

• Ecology or Catastrophe by Janet Biehl

• Recovering Bookchin by Andy Price

• Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal by Damian White

Democratic Confederalism

Democratic Confederalism is the political philosophy developed by Kurdish freedom movement figurehead Abdullah Öcalan, who was inspired by Bookchin among others. Öcalan’s approach is based on decades of practical political organising, alongside an increased focus on women’s liberation, making it a topic of its own.

• Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Öcalan

• Democratic Nation by Abdullah Öcalan

• War and Peace in Kurdistan by Abdullah Öcalan

• The Art of Freedom by Havin Guneser

• Beyond State, Power and Violence by Abdullah Öcalan

• Freedom Shall Prevail

• The Theory of Democratic Modernity as a Guide for Building a New Internationalism

• Opportunities and dangers of the Third World War

• The Resistance of Culture

• The Struggle for Socialism by Mustafa Karasu

• Democratic Modernity paves the way for Democratic Socialism

• Building Free Life

• Challenging Capitalist Modernity Vol. I

• Challenging Capitalist Modernity Vol. II

• Challenging Capitalist Modernity Vol. III

• Your Freedom and Mine by Thomas Miley and Federico Venturini

• Self-Determination Struggles by Thomas Jeffrey-Miley

• Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan by TATORT Kurdistan

• Bakur Rising by Nazan Ustundag

• Democratic Confederalism by Xebat Andok

• Interview with Cemil Bayik and Best Hozat

• The KCK Strategy by Cemil Bayik

• Entering a New Intellectual Era

• The Structural Crisis of Capitalism, the Current Political Conditions Worldwide and Today’s Challenges of Internationalism by Riza Altun

• The Seeker of Truth by Bager Nujiyan

Jineolojî and the Women’s Revolution

The struggle of women within the Kurdish Freedom Movement represents one of the most radical and organised women’s movements on the globe. Inherently anti-capitalist, internationalist and anti-state, it sets the bar for other movements. Whilst topics related to women’s liberation and jineolojî are also discussed in the above section, these texts are for those looking to learn more in detail about the praxis, theory and history of the movement.

• Liberating Life: Women’s Revolution by Abdullah Öcalan

• Killing and Transforming the Dominant Man

• The Kurdish Women’s Movement by Dilar Dirik

• The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla by Nazan Üstündağ

• Weaving Another Future by the Jineoloji Committee Europe

• Sara: My Whole Life Was A Struggle by Sakine Cansiz

• Sara: Prison Memoirs of a Kurdish Revolutionary

The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization

Abdullah Öcalan’s most comprehensive work is his five-volume manifesto, which details Democratic Confederalism’s anthropology, philosophy and politics in the most comprehensive manner. Volumes 4 and 5 are yet to be made available in english.

• Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings by Abdullah Öcalan

• Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings

• The Sociology of Freedom by Abdullah Öcalan

Resources on Rojava

The revolution in Rojava is currently the largest democratic confederalist movement working at a large scale. The following resources give a comprehensive overview of the inner workings of the social, political and ecological revolution in North East Syria.

• Rojava: A Social Contract for Revolution? by Legerin Magazine

• Make Rojava Green Again

• Stateless Democracy by Various Authors

• Beyond the Frontlines: The Building of the Democratic System in North and East Syria

• Beyond Rojava: North and East Syria’s Arab Regions

• Young and Promising: An Introduction to the NES University System

• Hidden Battlefields: Rehabilitating ISIS affiliates and Building a Democratic Culture in their Former Territories

• After ISIS: Ensuring a Future for Christians and Other Minorities in North and East Syria

• Revolution in Rojava

• Rojava: Peoples in Arms

• The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds by Thomas Schmidinger

• Anticapitalist Economy in Rojava by Azize Aslan

Audiobooks

There are several audiobook versions of communalist texts. Below are some of them.

• Social Ecology and Communalism

• The Ecology of Freedom

• Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Öcalan

Podcasts

If you prefer listening to reading, then these are the podcasts for you. There’s discussion of social ecology as well as adjacent topics. They make for great listening, being both thought-provoking and featuring many great guest speakers.

• SRSLY WRONG

• The Women’s War

• Çay at the Womens Front

• Medya News Podcast

• Freedom for Öcalan podcast

• The Kurdish Edition

Videos & Documentaries

There are excellent videos out there on international liberatory movements. In this section, you will find not only some outstanding documentaries, but also videos from various conferences and talks about Communalism and Democratic Confederalism.

• Jiyan: Life of a Female Guerrilla Fighter

• Bakur/North

• Sara: My Whole Life Was Struggle

• Gulistan: Land of Roses

• Rojava — New World Summit

• Challenging Capitalist Modernity

• Jin, Jiyan, Azadi

• We Are Our Own Strength

• Rojava: A Utopia in the Heart of Syria’s Chaos

• Maxmûr: Blooming the Desert

• In Conversation: BSA x Kongra Star

• Bookchin’s Collected Lectures

• The Commune of Communes

Organizations & Websites

Below are the websites of various organisations that are related to Communalism and Democratic Confederalism, focussing on direct action, education and political change. Some websites offer their own learning resources and courses that are highly recommended to check out.

• Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union

• Kurdistan Women’s Union

• Kongra Star

• Internationalist Commune Rojava

• Make Rojava Green Again

• Legerin Magazine

• Rojava Information Center

• Co-operation in Mesopotamia

• Academy for Democratic Modernity

• Komun Academy

• Women Defend Rojava

• Women Weaving the Future

• Jineoloji

• YPJ Information & Documentation Office

• North-East Syria Civil Diplomacy Centre

• International Initiative "Freedom for Öcalan"

• Youth Writing History Network

• Institute for Social Ecology

• Transnational Institute for Social Ecology

• Black Socialists in America

• Cooperation Jackson

• Solidarity Economy Association

• New Compass Press

• Vive La Commune

• Minim

A Future Bonus Communalist Library

Call out for web developers

So, things are moving along and we're hoping we can find a web developer who'd like to help out with unpacking the AmuseWiki files on our server.

Myself and a few peeps from the Anarchist Federation of Cyber Communes (AF2C) are working on creating a bonus Communalist Library with Amusewiki software, so that more people can collaborate on adding texts to the library & so that the texts are easier to word search:

https://thelul.org/library/some-recommendations-for-the-communalist-library

I know communalism can be slightly different to social anarchism, and there are a lot of legitimate critiques of the tendency which we definitely plan on platforming (Saul Newman, Wayne Price, etc.). However, we think it's close enough to anarchism, like big tent libertarian socialist that they're cool people to help out with making it easier for people to explore their range of texts and debate them.

We've already bought the web domain: <communalistlibrary.com>. Plus, we're in the process of creating space to host the library files on AF2C's servers with this docker: <https://github.com/rojenzaman/amusewiki-docker>

The only problem is that currently all the web developers on AF2C are already spread really thin, so it'd be good to find a web developer interested in following this how to guide for setting up the AmuseWiki software: <https://anarchistlibraries.net/howto> on AF2C's servers, plus to be the main person that can be around to do a little site maintenance if necessary like be able to work out if a PDF with really big dimensions is messing up the website script.

So, if anyone here has the time and would be up for getting involved it'd be super appreciated. If you want to check out the AF2C website it's: <https://af2c.org>, plus here's the AF2C matrix chat that it'd be good for people to join, so that the group can vet peeps before giving access codes to the server:

https://matrix.to/#/#af2c:envs.net

Finally, Marco from anarchistlibraries.net offered to help tutor anyone who'd like a hand navigating the server files by messaging the #amusewiki IRC:

https://web.libera.chat/#amusewiki

What to do about texts listed in the Communalist Library

Some texts that are already in AmuseWiki format

Perspectives on Palestine

• For an Internationalist Intifada/Serhildan

• Reflections on the Palestinian and Kurdish Resistance

An introduction to Communalism & Social Ecology

• Social Ecology and Communalism — Murray Bookchin

• Social Ecology — Brian Tokar

• Reason, Creativity and Freedom — Eleanor Finley

• Communalism: A Liberatory Alternative

• Remaking Society — Murray Bookchin

• The Next Revolution — Murray Bookchin

• The Murray Bookchin Reader — Janet Biehl

Social Ecology in-depth

• The Philosophy of Social Ecology

• The Ecology of Freedom — Murray Bookchin

• The Anthropology of Utopia

• The Ecology of Everyday Life — Chaia Heller

• Toward Climate Justice — Brian Tokar

Politics & Libertarian Municipalism

• The Confederation as the Commune of Communes — Debbie Bookchin & Sixtine van Outryve

• The New Municipal Model — Eleanor Finley

• The Politics of Social Ecology — Janet Biehl

• Urbanization without Cities — Murray Bookchin

• The Limits of the City — Murray Bookchin

Looking back at Bookchin

• Ecology or Catastrophe — Janet Biehl

• Recovering Bookchin — Andy Price

Democratic Confederalism

• Democratic Confederalism — Abdullah Öcalan

• Democratic Nation — Abdullah Öcalan

• War and Peace in Kurdistan — Abdullah Öcalan

• Bakur Rising — Nazan Ustundag

• The Seeker of Truth — Bager Nujiyan

Jineolojî and the Women’s Revolution

• Liberating Life: Women’s Revolution — Abdullah Öcalan

The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization

• Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings — Abdullah Öcalan

• The Sociology of Freedom — Abdullah Öcalan

Resources on Rojava

• Rojava: A Social Contract for Revolution? — Legerin Magazine

• Make Rojava Green Again — Internationalist Commune

• The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds — Thomas Schmidinger

Podcasts

• Library Socialism & Usufruct — SRSLY WRONG Episode 189 — Srsly Wrong

• Library Socialism & The Irreducible Minimum – Srsly Wrong Ep 196 — Srsly Wrong

• Library Socialism & Complementarity – Srsly Wrong Ep. 200 — Srsly Wrong

• Bonus Q&A: How to Make Library Socialism Now — Srsly Wrong

• Google Murray Bookchin – Srsly Wrong Ep. 96 — Srsly Wrong

• Bullshit Jobs (w/ David Graeber) – Srsly Wrong Ep. 153 — Srsly Wrong

• The Women’s War

Videos & Documentaries

• From Marxism to Communalism and Confederalism — Janet Biehl

Pay to View Books

These books were all released after 2022, so perhaps we could reach out to the authors about publishing a preview of the first chapter of their book on the library. That way we wouldn’t be damaging sales of their books.

• Intimate Direct Democracy — Modibo Kadalie

• Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism — Brian Morris

• Reclaiming Cities — Yavor Tarinski

• The Kurdish Women’s Movement — Dilar Dirik

• The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla — Nazan Üstündağ

• Weaving Another Future — the Jineoloji Committee Europe

• Anticapitalist Economy in Rojava — Azize Aslan

Content not yet converted into AmuseWiki format

Perspectives on Palestine

• PKK Internationalists in the Palestinian Resistance

An introduction to Communalism & Social Ecology

• Social Ecology — Emily McGuire

Social Ecology in-depth

• Pan-African Social Ecology — Modibo Kadalie

• Pioneers of Ecological Humanism — Brian Morris

• Ecology — The Rebellion of the Environment — Abdullah Öcalan

Politics & Libertarian Municipalism

• Social Ecology & the Right to the City — Various Authors

• City, Municipality, Commune — Yavor Tarinsky

• A Politics for the 99% — Marco Rosaire Conrad-Rossi

• City and Ecology

• Fearless Cities — Various

• Rebel Cities — David Harvey

Looking back at Bookchin

• Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal — Damian White

Democratic Confederalism

• The Art of Freedom — Havin Guneser

• Beyond State, Power and Violence — Abdullah Öcalan

• Freedom Shall Prevail

• The Theory of Democratic Modernity as a Guide for Building a New Internationalism

• Opportunities and dangers of the Third World War

• The Resistance of Culture

• The Struggle for Socialism — Mustafa Karasu

• Democratic Modernity paves the way for Democratic Socialism

• Building Free Life

• Challenging Capitalist Modernity Vol. I

• Challenging Capitalist Modernity Vol. II

• Challenging Capitalist Modernity Vol. III

• Your Freedom and Mine — Thomas Miley and Federico Venturini

• Self-Determination Struggles — Thomas Jeffrey-Miley

• Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan — TATORT Kurdistan

• Democratic Confederalism — Xebat Andok

• Interview with Cemil Bayik and Best Hozat

• The KCK Strategy — Cemil Bayik

• Entering a New Intellectual Era

• The Structural Crisis of Capitalism, the Current Political Conditions Worldwide and Today’s Challenges of Internationalism — Riza Altun

Jineolojî and the Women’s Revolution

• Killing and Transforming the Dominant Man

• Sara: My Whole Life Was A Struggle — Sakine Cansiz

• Sara: Prison Memoirs of a Kurdish Revolutionary

The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization

• Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings

Resources on Rojava

• Stateless Democracy — Various Authors

• Beyond the Frontlines: The Building of the Democratic System in North and East Syria

• Beyond Rojava: North and East Syria’s Arab Regions

• Young and Promising: An Introduction to the NES University System

• Hidden Battlefields: Rehabilitating ISIS affiliates and Building a Democratic Culture in their Former Territories

• After ISIS: Ensuring a Future for Christians and Other Minorities in North and East Syria

• Revolution in Rojava

• Rojava: Peoples in Arms

Audiobooks

• Social Ecology and Communalism

• The Ecology of Freedom

• Democratic Confederalism — Abdullah Öcalan

Podcasts

• Srsly Wrong Podcast

• Çay at the Womens Front

• Medya News Podcast

• Freedom for Öcalan podcast

• The Kurdish Edition

Videos & Documentaries

• Jiyan: Life of a Female Guerrilla Fighter

• Bakur/North

• Sara: My Whole Life Was Struggle

• Gulistan: Land of Roses

• Rojava — New World Summit

• Jin, Jiyan, Azadi

• We Are Our Own Strength

• Rojava: A Utopia in the Heart of Syria’s Chaos

• Maxmûr: Blooming the Desert

• In Conversation: BSA x Kongra Star

• Bookchin’s Collected Lectures

• The Commune of Communes

Some potential texts already in AmuseWiki format that could be copied over

Texts Critiquing Communalism

• Notes on a Public Discussion with a Greek anarchist who Volunteered in Rojava — Anonymous

• Anarchy after Leftism — Bob Black

• Book Filled with Lies — Bob Black

• Nightmares of Reason — Bob Black

• Notes on “Post-Left Anarchism” — Bob Black

• Withered Anarchism — Bob Black

• The Politics of Postanarchism — Saul Newman

• Anarchism Needs a Working Class Revolution — Wayne Price

• Anarchy Vs. Communalism — ziq

• Are Libertarian Socialists the Same as Anarchists? — ziq

Texts Supporting Communalism

• Bookchin–Öcalan Correspondence — Abdullah Öcalan

• Chaos-causing diseases are spreading — Abdullah Öcalan

• Declaration on the Democratic Solution of the Kurdish Question — Abdullah Öcalan

• Interview with Abdullah Öcalan — Abdullah Öcalan

• My Solution for Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds — Abdullah Öcalan

• Re-evaluating Anarchism — Abdullah Öcalan

• The Revolution is Female — Abdullah Öcalan

• “The Struggle Is not for Martyrdom but for Life” — CrimethInc.

• From Germany to Bakur — CrimethInc.

• Interview with the Internationalist Commune in Rojava — CrimethInc.

• One Year Since the Turkish Invasion of Rojava: An Interview with Tekoşîna Anarşîst — CrimethInc.

• Remembering Xelîl — CrimethInc.

• Rojava — CrimethInc.

• The “Ceasefire” Is a Deadly Fraud — CrimethInc.

• The Roots of Turkish Fascism — CrimethInc.

• The Threat to Rojava — CrimethInc.

• Understanding the Kurdish Resistance — CrimethInc.

• All Economies are Ultimately Human Economies — David Graeber

• America’s Kurdish allies risk being wiped out – by Nato — David Graeber

• Manufactured ignorance — David Graeber

• Öcalan as Thinker — David Graeber

• Preface to Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings — David Graeber

• Re-Thinking Resistance — David Graeber

• Syria, Anarchism & Visiting Rojava — David Graeber

• Why are world leaders backing this brutal attack against Kurdish Afrin? — David Graeber

• Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria? — David Graeber

• Radical Municipalism — Debbie Bookchin

• The Confederation as the Commune of Communes — Debbie Bookchin & Sixtine van Outryve

• The Anarchist Revolution — Dena Clamage, Murray Bookchin

• Announcement of the Creation of the IRPGF and Membership in the International Freedom Battalion — International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces

• Final communique from IRPGF — International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces

• IRPGF Statement on the Martyrdom of TKP/ML – TİKKO Rojava Commander Orhan Bakırcıyan / Martager (Nubar Ozanyan ՆուպարՕզանյան) — International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces

• Smashing the State in Rojava and Beyond — International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces

• Spanish Anarchist in IRPGF on the Women’s Revolution from Rojava to Spain — International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces

• “Our aim is to create an international movement able to change the capitalist drift that humanity is suffering” — Internationalist Commune

• “We need a revolutionary movement able to overcome all kind of oppression” — Internationalist Commune

• About the Internationalist Commune — Internationalist Commune

• For a new Internationalism of Women — Internationalist Commune

• Hand in Hand with the Women’s Revolution — Internationalist Commune

• Internationalists in the Revolution — Internationalist Commune

• Interview: Rojava, Venezuela and South America — Internationalist Commune

• The role of internationalists in the Rojava revolution — Internationalist Commune

• ‘What can we learn from the ongoing revolution in Rojava?’ — Internationalist Commune, Avjîn Azadî

• Why Jineolojî? Re-Constructing the Sciences towards a Communal and Free Life — Internationalist Commune, Gönül Kaya

• From Capitalist Modernity to Democratic Modernity — Internationalist Commune, Rok Brossa

• Bookchin Breaks with Anarchism — Janet Biehl

• Bookchin, Öcalan, and the Dialectics of Democracy — Janet Biehl

• Bookchin’s Trotskyist decade — Janet Biehl

• From Movement to Parliamentary Party — Janet Biehl

• Insurgency, conflict and communalism in Colombia — Janet Biehl

• Kurdish Communalism — Janet Biehl

• The Fallacy of “Neither Left nor Right”: Militia Fever — Janet Biehl

• The Politics of Social Ecology — Janet Biehl

• The Revolutionary Moment — Janet Biehl

• Theses on Social Ecology and Deep Ecology — Janet Biehl

• Thoughts on Rojava: an interview with Janet Biehl — Janet Biehl

• Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience — Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier

• Interview with Murray Bookchin — Jeff Riggenbach

• A 40-year-old social legacy — Komun Academy

• Embodying Chaos, Struggle, Utopia — Komun Academy

• From State to Democracy — Komun Academy

• Mutual aid and solidarity against Covid-19 — Komun Academy

• People’s Assemblies outside Kurdistan — Komun Academy

• Self-Defense is Existential — Komun Academy

• The Kurdish Freedom Struggle and (Anti)Imperialism in the 21^st Century — Komun Academy

• The Main Principles of Democratic Confederalism — Komun Academy

• Why Komun Academy? — Komun Academy

• Our Synthetic Environment — Lewis Herber

• Towards a Liberatory Technology — Lewis Herber

• Ecology and Revolutionary Thought — Lewis Herber (Murray Bookchin)

• Social Ecology and Democratic Confederalism — Make Rojava Green Again

• Revolution in Rojava — Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, and Ercan Ayboğa

• A Critique of the Draft Program of the Left Green Network — Murray Bookchin

• A Discussion on “Listen, Marxist!” — Murray Bookchin

• A Meditation on Anarchist Ethics — Murray Bookchin

• A Note on Affinity Groups — Murray Bookchin

• Anarchism and Power in the Spanish Revolution — Murray Bookchin

• Anarchism: Past and Present — Murray Bookchin

• Anarchy and Organization: A letter to the left — Murray Bookchin

• Attacks on Israel Ignore the Long History of Arab Conflict — Murray Bookchin

• Basic Principles, Future Prospects — Murray Bookchin

• Between the 30s and the 60s — Murray Bookchin

• Comments on the International Social Ecology Network Gathering and the “Deep Social Ecology” of John Clark — Murray Bookchin

• Communalism, the Democratic Dimension of Anarchism — Murray Bookchin

• Community Control or Statist Politics: A Reply to David Lewis — Murray Bookchin

• Community Ownership of the Economy — Murray Bookchin

• Death of a Small Planet — Murray Bookchin

• Defending the Earth: A Debate — Murray Bookchin

• Desire and Need — Murray Bookchin

• Finding the Subject — Murray Bookchin

• Free Cities — Murray Bookchin

• Freedom and Necessity in Nature: A Problem in Ecological Ethics — Murray Bookchin

• From Spectacle To Empowerment — Murray Bookchin

• History, Civilization, and Progress: Outline for a Criticism of Modern Relativism — Murray Bookchin

• Intelligentsia and the New Intellectuals — Murray Bookchin

• Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview — Murray Bookchin

• Libertarian Municipalism: The New Municipal Agenda — Murray Bookchin

• Listen, Marxist! — Murray Bookchin

• Municipalization — Murray Bookchin

• Myth of the Party — Murray Bookchin

• Nationalism and the “National Question” — Murray Bookchin

• Nature and Ideology — Murray Bookchin

• Notes on the Death of Franco — Murray Bookchin

• On “Remaking of the American Left” — Murray Bookchin

• On Spontaneity and Organisation — Murray Bookchin

• Popular Politics vs. Party Politics — Murray Bookchin

• Post-Affluence Anarchy: A Dialogue — Murray Bookchin

• Post-Scarcity Anarchism — Murray Bookchin

• Post-Scarcity Anarchism — Murray Bookchin

• Radical Agriculture — Murray Bookchin

• Radical Politics in an Era of Advanced Capitalism — Murray Bookchin

• Radicalizing Democracy — Murray Bookchin

• Re-enchanting Humanity — Murray Bookchin

• Recovering Evolution: A Reply to Eckersley and Fox — Murray Bookchin

• Remaking Society — Murray Bookchin

• Reply from Murray Bookchin to ‘5^th of May Group’ on Turkish anarchism — Murray Bookchin

• Reply to ACF — Murray Bookchin

• Resolution: “On Gubernatorial Races” — Murray Bookchin

• Second Nature — Murray Bookchin

• Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism — Murray Bookchin

• Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement — Murray Bookchin

• Society and Ecology — Murray Bookchin

• Sociobiology or Social Ecology — Murray Bookchin

• State Capitalism in Russia — Murray Bookchin

• Stop the Bomb — Murray Bookchin

• Summer in France — Murray Bookchin

• The American Crisis — Murray Bookchin

• The Bernie Sanders Paradox — Murray Bookchin

• The Communalist Project — Murray Bookchin

• The Communist Manifesto: Insights and Problems — Murray Bookchin

• The Crisis in the Ecology Movement — Murray Bookchin

• The Ecology of Freedom — Murray Bookchin

• The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism — Murray Bookchin

• The Greening of Politics — Murray Bookchin

• The Left That Was — Murray Bookchin

• The Limits of the City — Murray Bookchin

• The May–June Events in France — Murray Bookchin

• The Meaning of Confederalism — Murray Bookchin

• The Next Revolution — Murray Bookchin

• The Philosophy of Social Ecology — Murray Bookchin

• The Population Myth — Murray Bookchin

• The Spanish Anarchists — Murray Bookchin

• The Third Revolution — Murray Bookchin

• The Twilight Comes Early — Murray Bookchin

• The Unity of Ideals and Practice — Murray Bookchin

• The Youth Culture — Murray Bookchin

• Theses on Libertarian Municipalism — Murray Bookchin

• Thoughts on Libertarian Municipalism — Murray Bookchin

• To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936 — Murray Bookchin

• Toward a Communalist Approach — Murray Bookchin

• Toward a post-scarcity society: the American perspective and the SDS — Murray Bookchin

• Toward an Ecological Society — Murray Bookchin

• Turning Up the Stones — Murray Bookchin

• Utopia, not futurism — Murray Bookchin

• Were We Wrong? — Murray Bookchin

• What is Communalism? — Murray Bookchin

• What is Social Ecology? — Murray Bookchin

• Whither Anarchism? — Murray Bookchin

• Will Ecology Become ‘the Dismal Science’? — Murray Bookchin

• Yes! — Whither Earth First? — Murray Bookchin

• Environmentalists versus Ecologists — Murray Bookchin, Eugene Eccli

• Jineology: From Women’s Struggles to Social Liberation — Necîbe Qeredaxî; Brecht Neven; Marlene Schäfers, Roar Magazine

• Last Journals and Writings of Şehîd Tekoşer Piling — Ş. Tekoşer Piling

• “Every thunderstorm begins with a single drop” — Ş. Tekoşer Piling/Lorenzo Orsetti

• The Anarchist Collectives — Sam Dolgoff (Editor)

• Twenty-One Theses for the People’s Ecology in the Twenty-First Century — Social Ecology Cooperative

• Last Journals And Writings Of Sehid Tekoser Piling Lorenzo Orso Orsetti — Tekosina Anarsist

• Avenge George Floyd and all those murdered by State brutality — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Dear friends, dear comrades — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Freedom and dead: Reflections on resistance, repression and sacrifice — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Lorenzo “Orso” Orsetti — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• One year since Lorenzo fell Şehîd — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Remembering heval Şevger Ara Makhno — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Şehîd Şevger Ara Makno — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Şehîd Şevger Makhno — Fallen in the defence of Afrin — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Tekmil: A Tool For Collective Reflection — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Tekoşîna Anarşîst — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• To comrades in Russia — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe! — Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• Anarchists in Rojava — Tekoşîna Anarşîst & União Libertária

• A Communalist Assembly Starter Kit — Usufruct Collective

• A Friendly Critique of Bookchin’s Politics — Usufruct Collective

• An introduction to Utopian Thinking — Usufruct Collective

• Communalism — Usufruct Collective

• Communalism and Especifismo — Usufruct Collective

• Introduction to Neighborhood Assemblies — Usufruct Collective

• Social Ecology and Social Immunity in the time of Sars 2 — Usufruct Collective

• The Conquest of Sandwiches — Usufruct Collective

• Towards Communalist Especifism — Usufruct Collective

• Deep Ecology & Anarchism — Various Authors

• Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan

Unsorted Communalist Related Texts

• Interview with the Kurdistan Anarchists Forum (KAF) about the situation in Iraq/Kurdistan — A Las Barricadas

• Blackness and Democratic Modernity — A.X.

• A Commune in Rojava? — Alex de Jong

• Kurdish Autonomy Between Dream and Reality — Alex de Jong

• Stalinist caterpillar into libertarian butterfly? — Alex de Jong

• The New-Old PKK — Alex de Jong

• Open letter to P. A. Kropotkin — Alexander Atabekian

• The No State Solution — Alexander Kolokotronis

• Anarchism And The National Liberation Struggle — Alfredo Bonanno

• Review: Social Anarchism or Lifestylist Anarchism — An Unbridgeable Chasm — Anarchist Communist Federation

• Statement on Rojava — Anarchist Federation

• The Kurdistan Shoras Resistance — Anarchist Federation

• Review of Social Ecology and Communalism — Anarcho

• Review: The Next Revolution by Murray Bookchin — Anarcho

• We Don’t Need a “Plethora of Tactics”, We Need a Climate Strategy — AnarchyNouveau

• Constructing the Revolution — Anark

• An Anarchist Communist Reply to ‘Rojava: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Perspective’ — Anarkismo Editors Group

• Rojava — Revolution Between a Rock and a Hard Place — Andrew Flood

• Anarchist who Fought in Rojava — Anonymous

• Green Anarchism: Towards the Abolition of Hierarchy — Anonymous

• Palestine: Intersectional Solidarity — Anonymous

• Review: Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left — Anonymous

• Rojava Reality — Anonymous

• Revolutionary echoes from Syria — Anonymous, Hourriya

• The grim reality of the Rojava Revolution — Anti War, anonymous

• Review: Riding the Wind by Peter Marshall — Aragorn!

• Towards a Vibrant & Broad African-Based Anarchism — Ashanti Alston

• The Kurdish Uprising & Kurdistan’s Nationalist Shop Front — B.M Blob, B.M Combustion

• Internationalism and the Question of Revolutionary Leadership — Bager Rosa

• Archipelagic Confederation — Bas Umali

• African Inter-Communalism — Black Autonomy Federation

• Agroecology and Organized Anarchism — Black Rose Anarchist Federation

• Anthropology and Anarchism — Brian Morris

• Ecology and its recuperation by capitalists — Brian Morris

• Interview with the Kurdistan Anarchist Forum (KAF) ‎ — Bridget

• Our Perspectives and Tasks on the Revolution in Rojava — BRRN International Committee

• The Missing Bond of Solidarity — Budour Hassan

• Kobane, Rojava and the Western Left — Burn Shit

• Murray Bookchin and the value of democratic municipalism — Cain Shelley

• Murray Bookchin in London — Charlie Crute

• Being a Bookchinite — Chuck Morse

• Debunking Nonsense in the Anarchist Movement — Chuck Munson

• Climate, oil and death of soil — Çîrok Ecnebî

• Revolution in the Syrian Desert — Çîrok Ecnebî

• Anarchy in the YPG — Clare Maxwell

• Temporary Autonomous Zones — Colin Ward

• An Ambiguous Paradise Built in Hell — Dan Fischer

• “No. This is a Genuine Revolution” — David Graeber and Pinar Öğünç

• “Listen, Anarchist!” — David Harvey

• Trump’s Betrayal of YPG — David Van Deusen

• VT AFL-CIO Welcomes YPG Vet / Holds Political Convention — David Van Deusen

• Beyond Bookchin (excerpts) — David Watson, Steve Welzer

• We Are Calling To The Federation! — Devrimci Anarşist Federasyon

• Solidarity Message to the Revolted Peoples in Iran from Captive Anarchist Guerrilla Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis — Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis

• In the Heart of Syria’s Darkness, a Democratic, Egalitarian and Feminist Society Emerges — Dor Shilton

• A New Form of International Solidarity — Duran Kalkan

• Social Ecology and the Right to the City — Edited by Federico Venturini, Emet Değirmenci, Inés Morales

• Indigenous Anarchic Hierarchy — Eepa

• Reason, creativity and freedom: The communalist model — Eleanor Finley

• Ecology Discussions and Practices in the Kurdish Freedom Struggle — Ercan Ayboğa

• Market Anarchist Plus — Eric Fleischmann

• On Liberated Zones Theory — Eric Fleischmann

• An Interview with Tekoşîna Anarşîst — Facção Fictícia

• Covid-19 – is everything going to be alright again? — Ferda Çetin

• Letter from Turkish and Kurdish anarchists to Murray Bookchin — Fifth of May Group

• Prison Break: An Anarchist Blueprint for Hedonism — Flower Bomb

• Venezuela: ¡Comuna o Nada! — George Ciccariello-Maher

• Kurdistan? — Gilles Dauvé

• Forms of Freedom — Glenn Hall

• Revolution in Rojava? — Guerre de Classe

• Abdullah Öcalan, And All the Other Political Prisoners Must Be Released! — Hasse-Nima Golkar

• Police abolition and other revolutionary lessons from Rojava — Hawzhin Azeez

• From one crisis to another — Helen Arnold, Daniel Blanchard, Fabien Delmotte

• Ecology against Capitalism — Hêlîn Asî

• Big talk with Tekoşîna Anarşîst — Hevale & Tekoşîna Anarşîst

• A response to the article “Rojava: An anarcho-syndicalist perspective” — Hüseyin Civan

• Bookchin remembered — Iain McKay

• Anarchist Armed Struggle in Rojava and Beyond — Insurrection News

• Letter from an antifa militant in Rojava — International Revolution

• Interview with Tekoşîna Anarşîst – An Armed Collective in Rojava — Interviewed by the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya

• Letter: Anarcho-Primitivism — J M

• Pride, Tinged With Sadness — Jamie Goldrick

• An Anti-Authoritarian Analysis of Syria’s Uprising and Civil War — Javier Sethness-Castro

• Revolution in Permanence in Syria, After the Uprisings — Javier Sethness, Dan Fischer

• Is Another World Possible? — Jean Desta

• Listen Anarchist! — Jeff Shantz

• What is Postanarchism “Post”? — Jesse Cohn

• The fall of Rojava — Jim Kovpak

• The Possibility of an Anti-Humanist Anarchism — Joff

• A Social Ecology — John Clark

• Bridging the Unbridgeable Chasm: On Bookchin’s Critique of the Anarchist Tradition — John Clark

• Municipal Dreams — John Clark

• Hatta Shūzō and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan — John Crump

• The Lady or the Tiger — John Farthing II

• Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance — Joris Leverink

• Book Review: Revolution in Rojava — José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

• Conversation with Sinan Çiftyürek on the Kurdish question and the communists — José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

• Dialogue with Ahali on the Kurdish question and anarchism — José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

• NATO against the Kurds — José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

• Revolution in Rojava – an insight into the liberation movement in the Western Kurdistan — José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

• State terrorism is openly practiced in Europe — José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

• The Arab rebellion and the imperialist war on Libya from a Kurdish perspective — José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

• The Massacre of Kurds in Sirnak — José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

• On the Syrian Revolution and the Kurdish Issue — Joseph Daher

• Reply to Anarkismo & DAF on Rojava — K.B.

• Rojava: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Perspective — Karl Blythe

• Venezuela’s Communes — Katrina Kozarek

• There is No Progressive Nationalism — Ken Furan

• Do Kurdish people lack a state? — Kurdish Anarchists

• What is Going On in Kurdistan? — Kurdish Anarchists

• Interview with the International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces — Kurdish Question

• Clarification of a group of Kurdish speaking anarchists to the announcement of the Anarchism Era Federation — Kurdish-speaking Anarchists Forum

• Solidarity for Afrin and Rojava against the Turkey State — Kurdish-speaking Anarchists Forum

• Solidarity With People In Rojava, Denouncing Turkish State And United States Allies — Kurdish-speaking Anarchists Forum

• FAQ about the Kurdistan Anarchist Forum — Kurdistan Anarchist Forum

• Kobane’s Second Phase: Resistance and Necessities — Kurdistan Anarchists Forum

• Individual and Community — Laurence Davis

• An open letter to comrades in the Kurdish anarchist movement — Libertarian Socialist Movement

• Rojava: The betrayal of a Revolution — Mandy Moussouris

• Jineoloji — Marcel Cartier

• On ‘Fifth Estate’, Anarchism, Technology & Bookchin — Marcus Graham

• We need a plethora of tactics — Matthew Azoulay

• A plethora of tactics does not preclude a strategy — Matthew Azoulay of Epic Tomorrows

• Rejecting the American Model — Matthew S. Adams

• Victory to the Rojava Revolution! — Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group

• Radical Democracy in Practice — Michael Knapp

• 1978–1979: The Iranian Revolution — Michael Schmidt

• The Kurdish Question — Michael Schmidt & Lucien van der Walt

• Bicycles and Civilization — Michael William

• Towards Autonomy — Michalis Koulouthros and Yavor Tarinski

• Wild-life: anarchy, ecology, and ethics — Mick Smith

• Murray Bookchin: social anarchism, ecology and education — Mike Wood

• The No State Solution — Mohammed Bamyeh & Uri Gordon

• OK Bookchin — No Wing

• Status of Forces Agreement — Noam Chomsky

• The People in Gravest Danger — Noam Chomsky

• Oxford Green Anarchists on Bookchin — Oxford Green Anarchists

• The PKK — Paul White

• Dispatches from Rojava — Paul Z. Simons

• Anarchist with a gun — Phil Kuznetsov

• From Rojava to the Mapuche Struggle — Pilar Villanueva

• Revolution From Below In Syria? — Piper Tompkins

• Anarchist Critique of The PKK — Rage Against Capital

• Rojava’s everyday democracy — Ramazan Mendanlioglu

• Toward a Poststructural Social Ecology — reimagining

• Anarchism in Rojava — Rev Dia

• Betrayal and Solidarity — Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement

• Law and Order Among The Anarchists — Robert Evans

• National Liberation & Anarchism — Saint Andrew

• Constitution of the South-East Queensland Union of Renters — SEQUR

• The Anarchists vs. the Islamic State — Seth Harp

• The Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism — Shannon Brincat, Damian Gerber

• Murray Bookchin on Mars! — Shaun Huston

• A Glimmer of Hope — Shawn Hattingh

• The Rojava Experiment — Shawn Hattingh

• Notes on “Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism” — Shawn P. Wilbur

• How do co-operatives work in Rojava? — Social Economy Development Centre

• Against World War III — Songül Karabulut

• Rebel Cities — Steve Rushton

• A Mountain River Has Many Bends — Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness

• A Small Key Can Open a Large Door — Strangers In a Tangled Wilderness

• Community, Democracy, and Mutual Aid — Symbiosis Research Collective

• Hope Against Hope: Why Progressivism is as Useless as Leftism — Tara Specter

• Anarchism or Vanguardism? — The Free

• The Most Important Thing — The Hamilton Institute

• The Most Important Thing — The Hamilton Institute

• Not One Step Back! — The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army

• Anticolonial Separatism in the Neoliberal Era — The Renegade

• Checkpoints & Tritonal — The Renegade

• The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds — Thomas Schmidinger

• Murray Bookchin’s Legacy — Tom Wetzel

• Finding The Man — Bookchin Revisited — Tony Sheather

• Freedom, Anarchism, or Social Ecology — Tony Sheather

• Common Consciousness — Uchiyama Gudō

• The Kurdish Uprising and Kurdistan’s Nationalist Shop Front and Its Negotiations with the Baathist/Fascist Regime — Various Authors

• Rojava: An Anarcho-Syndicalist Perspective — Workers Solidarity Alliance

• Direct Democracy — Yavor Tarinski

• Reflections on Castoriadis and Bookchin — Yavor Tarinski

• Rojava: Fantasies and Realities — Zafer Onat

• Afrin and the Policies of the Democratic Union Party — Zaher Baher

• Confederalism, Democratic Confederalism and Rojava — Zaher Baher

• Does Anarchist Movement in Iraqi Kurdistan, Bashur, exist? — Zaher Baher

• In retaking Mosul YPG/J and the Guerrillas must be aware of the hidden agenda — Zaher Baher

• Our attitude towards Rojava must be critical solidarity — Zaher Baher

• Rojava between genocide and compromise — Zaher Baher

• The battle of Idlib Province in Syria is decisive and crucial for the future of Rojava — Zaher Baher

• The experiment of West Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) has proved that people can make changes — Zaher Baher

• The Experiments of Rojava and Northern Kurdistan (Turkey) for launching the social revolution left no doubt it has to start from building the local groups — Zaher Baher

• The Kurdish people should get involved in and support campaigns on local and national issues — Zaher Baher

• The latest message from Ocalan and my opinion — Zaher Baher

• The social revolution will sweep Turkey Kurdistan sooner or later — Zaher Baher

• We should not let Kobane and the rest of Rojava to be defeated by the big corporations and the international financial institutions — Zaher Baher

• We, supporters of Rojava, should be worried about its partnership with the United States. — Zaher Baher

• What sort of uprising do we need in Iraqi Kurdistan? — Zaher Baher

• Where is the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) heading? — Zaher Baher

• Why anarchism isn’t a popular idea? — Zaher Baher

• Why Anarchists and Libertarians have been divided over Rojava? — Zaher Baher

Videos

• From Marxism to Communalism and Confederalism — Janet Biehl

• Presentation on the ecological situation in Northern Syria & a campaign project working to help

• Is a Revolutionary Approach to Politics in Britain Possible? — Kurdish Solidarity Network

• Campaigns & Remembrances of Anna Campbell

Podcasts

• Library Socialism & Usufruct — SRSLY WRONG Episode 189 — Srsly Wrong

• Library Socialism & The Irreducible Minimum – Srsly Wrong Ep 196 — Srsly Wrong

• Library Socialism & Complementarity – Srsly Wrong Ep. 200 — Srsly Wrong

• Bonus Q&A: How to Make Library Socialism Now — Srsly Wrong

• Google Murray Bookchin – Srsly Wrong Ep. 96 — Srsly Wrong

• Bullshit Jobs (w/ David Graeber) – Srsly Wrong Ep. 153 — Srsly Wrong

• Rojava & Revolution with Josh Walker (YPG) — Josh Walker & Mexie

• Falafel with Hezbollah — Radical People Podcast

• Metal Gear Solidarity — Radical People Podcast

• Vedeng a Rojava Episode 4: Internationalism — Radio Vedeng a Rojava

• War experience in Afrîn, Syria — Radio Vedeng a Rojava