Rebel Cities 4: In Warsaw, "Rights to the City" Means Clean Air and Affordable Homes

The Right to the City is a core ingredient in the radical municipalist movement now spreading across cities worldwide, driven in Warsaw by local issues like air pollution and unaffordable rents.

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Rebel Cities 3: Zapatistas Are Still Trailblazing Worlds Beyond Neoliberalism

Everything changed on New Year's Day 1994, when Zapatistas took autonomous control of their land in Chiapas, southern Mexico. In the 24 years since, they have exported their organizing model worldwide.

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Rebel Cities 2: Rojava Shows Pathway Towards A Common Humanity

Rojava is a world-leading experiment in democracy emerging from the ashes of the Syrian War, where Kurds have created a new political model based on participatory local councils holding sovereignty.

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Rebel Cities, 1: "Marielle Franco Presente!"

The brutal murder last month of Marielle Franco – Rio de Janeiro councilwoman, sociologist, single mother and leading light in Brazil's Feminist Spring – has reverberated across the world.

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Why Blockadia Is the World's Best Chance To Tackle Climate Change

Global resistance to carbon intense industries is swelling – and until climate negotiations start specifying what exactly must stay below ground, Blockadia is the strongest chance of maintaining the world's inhabitability.

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Stansted 17 On Trial: U.K. Protesters Face Terrorism Charges For Helping Save Migrants

One year ago, 17 people locked themselves on to a deportation charter flight at London Stansted Airport, grounding a plan that would have sent 59 people back to face reprisal – and possibly death – in Ghana and Nigeria. Now, those activists could face life imprisonment.

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A New Right Rising: Can Spain Kill Franco's Ghost?

"I will fight for a Spanish Republic until my last day," said 79-year-old Antonio Cabañero, in a crowd outside the Catalan Parliament as protesters continued to call for the region's independence from Spain.

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Stopping Europe's Authoritarian Slide Has As Much to Do With Spain As Poland

The Nazis marching on the streets of Poland look similar to the Nazis marching on the Spanish streets calling for "unity." The difference is this: In Spain there is no breakthrough for any anti-European party. Authoritarianism, rather, is coming from the ruling Partido Popular.

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To Defend the Referendum, Catalans are Building a Republic From Street Assemblies Up

“Everyone has a reason that moves us to fight for democracy, independence and freedom," says Elisenda, a mother in Barcelona who joined one of her local Committees to Defend the Referendum (CDR) as Catalonia presses for independence.

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Resurgence of Protests In Catalonia As Spain Continues to Hold Political Prisoners

You would think three months prison without trial for organizing peaceful protests is something that happens in an authoritarian state, but this reality now faces two Catalan men who were jailed in Spain for sedition last fall while calling for public

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