"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?

As unemployment and poverty in the US reaches record levels, the protest is catching on, with hundreds of parallel occupations across the country. It was a similar disparity in economic and political power that led people to the streets in the Arab Spring, and in Wisconsin, Greece, Spain and London.

For five years, the Kurds of southeastern Turkey have built communalist institutions on an unprecedented scale. Interviewed by Janet Biehl, activist Ercan Ayboga explains the origin, theory, and practice of what Kurds call democratic confederalism.

Did you think that anthroposophy and the thinking of Rudolf Steiner was a progressive pedagogical and environmental philosophy? Well, read this article about Steiner’s race theory and anthroposophy’s relationship to German Nazism and think again!