New Compass Press imprint: 14 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Today, there is an urgent need for a new politics. We must change our society to reverse the damage human societies make on the environment. To do so, we need a practical and realistic approach that can transform our cities into being ecological and democratic cities.
—Dimitri I. Roussopoulos
How...
Political Ecology
The Climate Crisis and a New Social Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Political Ecology explains the history of environmental politics and its prospects for the future. This highly readable classic is now available in a revised and expanded edition.
Political Ecology opens by presenting the history of the state management of the environment, then moves to an...
Toward Climate Justice
Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that have experienced the most severe impacts of global climate changes. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and...
Against the Nation
Anti-National Politics in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Following the German reunification process in the 1990s, a new movement appeared in Germany. This movement rejected all forms of nationalism, including the desirability and legitimacy of national communities, borders, and the existence of the nation-state itself.
Against the Nation covers...
Civilization
The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
This manifesto is the definitive work of Abdullah Öcalan, crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. Here Öcalan outlines a democratic alternative for the Middle East.
A criticism that limits itself to capitalism is too superficial, Öcalan argues, and turns his eyes to the underlying...
by Marco Rosaire Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations were remarkably successful in capturing the public imagination and identifying the need for a new kind of politics. Why have they floundered. Why did this happen? Was the Occupy movement stifled by misconceptions of political power? What kind of political theory...
Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan
The Council Movement, Gender Liberation, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
In order to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question, the Kurdish Freedom Movement in Turkey has developed an alternative social model: Democratic Autonomy.
In the fall of 2011, a group of TATORT activists journeyed into the Kurdish regions of Turkey to learn how the theory of Democratic...
Capitalism
The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
To understand how capitalism has come to engulf our world, we must understand how it developed out of classical civilization. Its historical roots lie in the emergence of hierarchies, power, monopolies, and the nation-state, argues Abdullah Öcalan.
Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and...
by Adam Michael Krause
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
In “The Revolution Will Be Hilarious & Other Essays”, Adam Michael Krause describes the environmental and political dangers we face, as well as the mechanisms that keep them in place, while offering ideas on how to extricate ourselves from this terrifying predicament.
While moving between...
by Eirik Eiglad
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
What defines Communalism? What distinguishes it from other radical ideologies? What social and political alternatives does it offer? "Communalism as Alternative" answers these questions: it presents a broad overview of this political ideology and suggests some ways it can be translated into practical politics.
Ecofascism Revisited
Lessons from the German Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
The disconcerting reappearance of fascism in many parts of the Western world since the late twentieth century has prompted a re-evaluation of previous political assumptions. One of the more controversial facets of this process centers on the role of ecological ideas and practices within fascist circles,...
Art as Politics
The Future of Art and Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
The arts originated in the day-to-day activities of human communities. But through the confluence of the culture industry and status-driven high art, the products of artistic activities have become mere commodities and specimens of culture rather than integral elements in the fabric of our everyday...
Recovering Bookchin
Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Through an extensive body of political and philosophical ideas he called social ecology, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) elucidated one of the first intellectual responses to the ecological crisis. However, over the last two decades of his life Bookchin’s ideas slipped from focus, obscured by the emergence...
The Anthropology of Utopia
Essays on Social Ecology and Community Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
How can we avert ecological catastrophe? How can we build community? What is the practical relevance of utopia? These are some of the questions anthropologist Dan Chodorkoff explores in his essays on social ecology and community development.
The Anthropology of Utopia surveys alternative ways...