Klubrádió’s struggle for survival not only represents a test case of how far the government is willing to silence any opposition to its authoritarian aspirations. The station has also been endowed with a symbolic value: as long as we hear its broadcasts, we are able to sustain our hopes that all is not lost.

After a year of protests and occupations, the movement against austerity measures and the dominant economic policy is asking how it can realize its demand for real democracy. Could participation in local elections be a part of its strategy?

Despite massive repression, strong radical movements in Kurdistan are advocating social ecology, communalism, feminism, and confederalism. What are the basic principles of communalist politics? How is it relevant to the Kurdish struggle for self-determination and true democracy?

Throughout his life Murray Bookchin was searching for political alternatives to the nation-state and capitalism. His social ecology explicitly sought to create free municipalities peopled by free citizens. His ideas will—we hope—receive more attention in the future.

"The multiple crises we face indicate the need for a new paradigm, and that needs new organisational forms as the old ones are relatively defunct," says Mark Barrett from the People's Assembly Network in the UK. We talked to him about the prospects for assembly democracy in the UK.

Al Qaeda and the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik may appear very different, but they share the view that the world is ruled by a secret and all-powerful conspiracy. We reveal the conspirative fantasies behind the July 22nd attacks in Norway and other terrorist ideologies.

For the last 6 years more than 40.000 people have been killed in the so-called Mexican drug war. A new grassroots peace movement has been initiated by the poet Javier Sicilia. Can it do what the government is not able to do – to provide real security to the Mexicans?