Occupy presented a model for direct democracy in radical movements and greatly inspired participants and observers. Still, conceived as primarily a protest movement, Occupy is not only a testament to both the vision and spirit of its organizers, but to the limitations of protest.

An articulation of a political framework to understand some of the challenges we face and respond to them. Part two of a series from the booklet published December last year. By writers, organisers and activists Hilary Moore and Joshua Kahn Russell.

Fifty years ago, a psychological experiment showed how people were willing to inflict excruciating pain when ordered to do so. Today, as an ideology of personal responsibility obscures the causes of economic and ecological collapse, its insights are more relevant than ever.

Was John Maynard Keynes "the greatest economist who ever lived"? Keynesian theories are enjoying a renaissance, but Keynes himself believed that by now humanity should be close to "economic bliss" and a leisure society. He did not understand how capitalism would thwart the liberating potential of the economic abundance he foresaw.

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?