12 títulos para "New Compass Press"

Social Ecology and Social Change

Eiglad, Eirik

Today, there is an urgent need for a new politics. We must change our society to reverse the damage human societies make on the environment. To do so, we need a practical and realistic approach that can transform our cities into being ecological and democratic cities. —Dimitri I. Roussopoulos...

Toward Climate Justice

Tokar, Brian

The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that have experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and...

Civilization

Ocalan, Abdullah

This manifesto is the definitive work of Abdullah Öcalan, crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. Here Öcalan outlines a democratic alternative for the Middle East.A criticism that limits itself to capitalism is too superficial, Öcalan argues, and turns his eyes to the under...

Ecofascism Revisited

Biehl, Janet / Staudenmaier, Peter

The disconcerting reappearance of fascism in many parts of the Western world since the late twentieth century has prompted a re-evaluation of previous political assumptions. One of the more controversial facets of this process centers on the role of ecological ideas and practices within fascist circ...

Recovering Bookchin

Price, Andy

Through an extensive body of political and philosophical ideas he called social ecology, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) elucidated one of the first intellectual responses to the ecological crisis. However, over the last two decades of his life Bookchin’s ideas slipped from focus, obscured by the...

Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan

TATORT Kurdistan

In order to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question, the Kurdish Freedom Movement in Turkey has developed an alternative social model: Democratic Autonomy.    In the fall of 2011, a group of TATORT activists journeyed into the Kurdish regions of Turkey to learn how the theory...

Art as Politics

Krause, Adam Michael

The arts originated in the day-to-day activities of human communities. But through the confluence of the culture industry and status-driven high art, the products of artistic activities have become mere commodities and specimens of culture rather than integral elements in the fabric of our everyday...

Capitalism

Ocalan, Abdullah

To understand how capitalism has come to engulf our world, we must understand how it developed out of classical civilization. Its historical roots lie in the emergence of hierarchies, power, monopolies, and the nation-state, argues Abdullah Öcalan.Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked...

Against the Nation

Ogman, Robert

Following the German reunification process in the 1990s, a new movement appeared in Germany. This movement rejected all forms of nationalism, including the desirability and legitimacy of national communities, borders, and the existence of the nation-state itself. Against the Nation covers the b...

Communalism as Alternative

Eiglad, Eirik

What defines Communalism? What distinguishes it from other radical ideologies? What social and political alternatives does it offer? "Communalism as Alternative" answers these questions: it presents a broad overview of this political ideology and suggests some ways it can be translated int...

A Politics for the 99%

Rossi, Marco Rosaire

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations were remarkably successful in capturing the public imagination and identifying the need for a new kind of politics. Why have they floundered. Why did this happen? Was the Occupy movement stifled by misconceptions of political power? What kind of political theory...

The Anthropology of Utopia

Chodorkoff, Dan

How can we avert ecological catastrophe? How can we build community? What is the practical relevance of utopia? These are some of the questions anthropologist Dan Chodorkoff explores in his essays on social ecology and community development.The Anthropology of Utopia surveys alternative ways of life...