“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
The field of language is a crucial battleground in the war between us and the capitalist system of domination. Through its massive control of the media, through the specific forms given to what we still call “education,” and through the…
Understanding why people continue to vote: a path toward overcoming resigned abstention and rebuilding forms of power from the ground up As we find ourselves between the two rounds of municipal elections, one question persists—all the more poignantly since it…
Series: Social Ecology Today — Roots About this series The series ‘Social Ecology Today’ explores and clarifies the thinking and practices of social ecology, showing how this approach connects ecological crises to the social and political structures that produce them,…
Below we publish an article originally published in Numéro Zéro, written by Daniel Adam-Salamon. In it, the author offers a critical reflection on what he calls “ordinary totalitarianism,” understood as a form of diffuse domination in which the market, state…
Why publish this text by Nicolas Caseaux on The Workshop? This text echoes the analyses we develop at The Workshop based on a living communalist social ecology, oriented towards the reconstruction of free and confederated communes. By contrasting the “fantasy…
A political world reveals itself in what it tolerates, but above all in what it legitimizes. Seeing identity politics take root, the trivialization of targeted violence, symbolic gestures blurring fundamental reference points: all this paints a picture of an era…
Solidarity contribution — pooling As ecological, social, and democratic crises deepen, one question remains central: how can we build emancipatory forms of organization without repeating the logic we contest? This requirement for consistency between means and ends is not simply…
The reality experienced by Palestinians, not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, is intolerable and unacceptable. Yet this ignominy, this ruthless crushing of a people, continues with the consent, or at least the passivity, of most governments…
We are publishing this interview with Héctor Llaitul, long-time spokesperson for the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), in a context marked by intensified state repression, the criminalization of territorial struggles, and the rise of the far right in Chile, as elsewhere in…
A fascistic symptom of a darkening world Some words are used to hide, others to reveal. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement” belongs to the first category: an administrative, almost neutral name designed to anesthetize reality. But reality is anything but neutral.…
The Kurds of Rojava are once again left to their fate in the face of a new Syrian regime whose authoritarian and jihadist ideological tendencies are now beyond doubt. The illusions that followed the fall of the tyrant Assad have…
Many of the most conscious individuals, and in a way the most lucid, now tend to despair about the future of humanity and the possibility of a favorable outcome for the establishment of a truly humane society. It must be…
