THE COMMONER

APRIL 8. 2025

“Mothers are right”

~ by Stavros Stravides ~ “Mothers are right”. This was a graffiti slogan written on the walls of Medellin, in Colombia.

MARCH 22. 2025

The Mondeggi eco-commons: organization, alternative material politics, ecological reparation

~ by Andrea Ghelfi ~ Abstract A pivotal issue in contemporary peasant and agroecological movements is that of access to land.

JANUARY 17. 2025

Land Commoning

~ by Stavros Stavrides ~ A rather simplified version of the land distribution problem in Colombia may be articulated thus: Peasants (especially mestizos and white …

DECEMBER 4. 2024

Palestine & the Commons: Or, Marx & the Musha’a

~ by Peter Linebaugh ~ In 1958 the assistant headmaster did the Bible reading at the morning assembly of the Karachi Grammar School (Pakistan), founded …

NOVEMBER 29. 2024

What is the difference?

~ by Massimo De Angelis ~ These days I watch Al Jazzeera. Its reports from Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank show colourful images of …

NOVEMBER 25. 2024

Gaza: The systematicity of annihilation

— Stavros Stavrides — Many of those who initially supported Israel’s right to self-defense have to admit now that this is indeed a genocidal war. …

NOVEMBER 22. 2024

Capitalist development and the war on social reproduction: Palestine and beyond

Silvia Federici The cruelty of the war that Israel has been waging against the Palestinian people and now against the people of Lebanon is so …

OCTOBER 29. 2024

Stigma, fear and change

~by Massimo De Angelis ~ We have seen it for years around the issue of migrants. We have seen it with the war in Ukraine …

MAY 14. 2024

Strange Realism

Strange Realism features poetry, short essays and graphics by Francis Gene Rowe, as well as visuals by Erica Masserano and Daina Daugaviete

APRIL 16. 2024

Piazza Garibaldi Commons

Piazza Garibaldi Commons: Migrant communities in Piazza Garibaldi: an information hub based on a 'commons of market knowledge'

MARCH 5. 2024

Four open calls

Four open calls to The Commoner: Commoning space | Commoning ecologies | Liminal commons | Commoning and the convergence of struggles

Commoning space

Commoning Space: We cannot think of a different kind of society without questioning the status of socially produced space. Social life is...

Liminal commons

Liminal commons: short-lived yet leave a profound impact on both participants and their surroundings? How do we decipher .. transient commons?

Commoning and the convergence of struggles

Commoning and the convergence of struggles: processes that bring movements and struggles together despite differences and distances...