The ideas about political organization that have animated the new radical movements worldwide

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide range of political thinkers and social movements.

With a foreword by the best-selling author of The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Next Revolution brings together Bookchin’s essays on freedom and direct democracy for the first time, offering a bold political vision that can move us from protest to social transformation. A pioneering voice in the ecology and anarchist movements, he is the author of The Ecology of Freedom and Post-Scarcity Anarchism amongSecuring Lasting Peace and Justice in Colombia

The conflict started in the 1960’s and has led to the death of 220,000 people and the internal displacement of nearly 6 million Colombians.

To date, three sizeable armed organizations have fought to attain their political goals through violence – the left-wing Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC), the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN), and the right-wing paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). A few smaller ones have also participated in the conflict.

These three organizations have been involved in assassinations, kidnappings, oil pipeline sabotage, and drug trafficking.

FARC has also been responsible for recruiting adolescents in its ranks, many of whom became victims of sexual and physical abuse.

FACTS ABOUT THE PEACE PROCESS (2012 – present):

There have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to secure lasting