Helena Paul
Climate change and biodiversity destruction are moving faster than we ever thought possible, with deadly implications for future generations, while inequality, injustice, conflict, disease and hunger are constantly increasing. Our governments continually fail to take action – and …
What and where are the grassroots movements and alternative visions that challenge green colonialism and offer ‘ecosocial transition’ pathways toward equitable and ecological futures? This question is at the heart of ‘The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Global Justice and …
J.P. O’Malley
Originally published in Resurgence & Ecologist.
J.P. O’Malley talks to the directors of a moving documentary about the citizens of Zenica, one of Europe’s most polluted cities, and how they came together to fight against the local, …
Milica Kočović De Santo
This article highlights the historical significance of self-management practices in Yugoslavia as inherently anti-capitalist and anti-colonial. The Yugoslav model’s institutional structure embodied principles that degrowth theorists advocate, offering relevant insights for future provisioning systems in a …
Mohammed Al-Murtadha
The most inspiring alternatives are not found in rigid ideologies or centralised plans, but in the adaptive, decentralised and plural pathways emerging from lived experience that make room for care, experimentation, and slow transformation. Mohammed Al-Murthadha writes that …
GTA facilitation team
Last month, the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) completed six years of weaving and connecting networks of Alternatives around the globe. In this message to the constituents of the process, the GTA facilitation team celebrates and reflects …
Marianne Dhenin
Originally published by Yes! Magazine on 21 May 2025.
To fill the growing vacuum of history education in the U.S., racial justice organizers are leaning into community-based education programs to continue teaching a more diverse and comprehensive picture …
Asia Leofreddi
Originally published by The Loop on 14 May 2025.
A student-led movement is challenging what they claim is the ‘capture’ of the state by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. Asia Leofreddi reflects on how this uprising, sparked by tragedy …
Michel Pimbert
At its heart, food sovereignty is a people-led response to the existential threats and multiple crises facing agri-food systems. Led by peasant farmers and agricultural workers, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, and fishers, as well as citizens, activist scholars, women, …
Necibe Qeredaxi
Necibe Qeredaxi shares the story of Sakine Cansiz (also known as ‘Sara’), co-founder of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), who dedicated her life to the Kurdish freedom movement. From her early inspirations to her efforts at organising women …
Miho Soon
Originally Published by The Post Growth Institute on 19 November 2024.
To offer a meaningful alternative economic system, I believe it is essential that we engage with what we dream of as ‘good lives ‘— the diverging stories, …
An interview with sociologist Alexandrina Vanke by Mitja Stefancic
Mitja Stefancic interviews Dr. Alexandrina Vanke, author of The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia, about the motivation behind writing this book, why the concept of ‘class’ is understood …