In Northern France, near Valenciennes, a protest camp was held to oppose a planned mega-canal of 107 km long, which should connect the rivers of Seine and Schild in order to serve shippings between Paris, Dunkerque, Antwerp and Rotterdam. This mega-project is threatening the livelihood of over 50 protected fish species, and will further deepen…
🕖 15 July 2026 — 19:00-21:00📍 Le Steki, rue Gustave Defnet 6, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Belgium “As ADM (🔗 https://democraticmodernity.com/) we want to provide a platform to discuss, organize and struggle. Just as fundamental social change is inconceivable without building the necessary organization, organization is nothing without a coherent and solid theoretical foundation. It is therefore…
Ecology is one of the greatest social problems and challenges of our time. While the ecological crisis is gaining relevance worldwide and some states are promoting system-internal solutions such as “green capitalism” or the “Green New Deal,” there are ecological movements around the world that are seeking a different, radical solution. Abdullah Öcalan links the…
This interview of ADM with the Kurdish activist Songül Morsümbül offers a political assessment of the labor union struggle in Northern Kurdistan, showing how workers in the region face capitalist exploitation and state violence. By tracing the historical alliance between the state and capital, it reveals how class struggle in Kurdistan is inextricably linked to…
Recent years have seen a steady escalation of the Third World War, and the emergence of a crisis within the capitalist system which, without restraint, normalises war – both between states and within society. We have shared the warmth of solidarity in Italy’s streets, the opposition to European rearmament policies, and the mobilisation of millions…
Below you will find two interviews with members and leaders of the Pasundan Peasants’ Union (SPP), a peasant organization in West Java, Indonesia. As an organization, they are in the process of building People’s Power as a strategy to reclaim their dignity as a people and take control of their own lives. These interviews provide…
The concept of autonomy already exists in our struggles, we may simply be using different names for it: freedom, independence, self-determination, self-sufficiency, self-organization… It’s what the capitalist system has taken away from us, the people–or society–to ensure the exploitation of life and nature for the gains of the few. How can we reclaim our local…
A Proposal for Democratic Socialism in the 21st Century Zeki Bayhan, Kurdish politician and author of numerous writings on democratic socialism “To know what we will do, we must first know who we are.” Peter Weiss The use of the term “socialism” has a relatively short history, yet its conceptual equivalent is societality or communalism….
In Rhizome, Deleuze and Guattari state that: “A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of diversely formed materials, of very different dates and speeds. … One should never ask what a book means, signified or signifier; in a book there is nothing to understand, one should only ask what it functions with,…
The 18th of march marked the 155th anniversary of the declaration of the Paris Commune. In those days the commune came to the forefront in its country of origin as a symbol and program that paved the way for the left prior to the municipal elections. The campaign of ‘The unsubmissive France’ (La France insoumise…
