Yavor Tarinski is an independent researcher and activist whose publications and talks center on the possibilities of direct democracy and commoning practices as an alternative to the current social imaginary. He is the author of Direct Democracy: Context, Society, Individuality (Durty Books Publishing House, 2019). He is a member of the editorial team of the Greek political journal Aftoleksi, bibliographer at Agora International and member of the administrative board of TRISE. In the past he has co-founded “Adelante” — the first social center in Bulgaria as well as the first Bulgarian Social Forum. Continue reading “Direct democracy and the passion for political participation”
Direct Democracy: Context, Society, Individuality
Title: Direct Democracy: Context, Society, Individuality
Author: Yavor Tarinski
Pages: 106
Publisher: Durty Books Publishing House
Year: 2019
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Yavor Tarinski στο ραδιόφωνο του The Press Project
Την Παρασκευή 4 Οκτώβρη σε μια δίωρη εκπομπή από τις 7 έως τις 9 το βράδυ, ο Νίκος Ιωάννου συζητά με την Έλενα Παγάνη και τον Θοδωρή Παντελάδη για την εμπειρία από τη συμμετοχή τους στις πρόσφατες εκδηλώσεις “από κοινού” στις Σταγιάτες Πηλίου. Επίσης γίνεται μια παρουσίαση του βιβλίου του Yavor Tarinski (direct democracy : conext, society, individouality) το οποίο εκδόθηκε πρόσφατα από τον Ιρλανδέζικο οίκο Durty Books Publishing House, επιχειρώντας μια σύγχρονη προσέγγιση της άμεσης δημοκρατίας – καθώς και μια ενημέρωση για το συνέδριο του Ινστιτούτου Κοινωνικής Οικολογίας TRISE στα τέλη του Οκτώβρη στην Αθήνα.
Narrow Anti-Imperialism as Ideological Cover for Authoritarianism
By Yavor Tarinski
It is absolutely necessary to rebuild an intellectual and political foundation for criticism and seeking change in the world, but metropolitan anti-imperialism is totally unfit for this job. It has absorbed subordinating imperialistic tendencies, and it is fraught with eurocentrism and void of any true democratic content.
-Yassin al-Haj Saleh[1]
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Durty Words
Title: Durty Words
Editors: Victoria Brunetta & Kate O’Shea
Pages: 368
Publisher: Durty Books Publishing House
Η σημασία της αυτοθέσμισης στο ελευθεριακό κίνημα
του Yavor Tarinski
«Όλοι οι πολιτικοί θεσμοί αποτελούν εκδηλώσεις και υλοποιήσεις της εξουσίας· απολιθώνονται και αποσυντίθονται μόλις η ζώσα δύναμη των ανθρώπων σταματά να τους συγκρατεί»
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Η Άμεση Δημοκρατία ως Πολίτευμα (Video)
SYRIZA’s “long march through the institutions” comes to an end?
By Yavor Tarinski
On July 7th the SYRIZA party (Coalition of the Radical Left) lost the Greek national elections to the conservative New Democracy with a bitter 8% difference, allowing the latter to form a self-reliance government (something which had not happen since the beginning of the crisis in 2008). Continue reading “SYRIZA’s “long march through the institutions” comes to an end?”
On why nuclear energy is incompatible with direct democracy
A Coffee with Kristin Ross: On the continuations of May ’68
Yavor Tarinski, Kostas Savvopoulos, Alexandros Sxismenos, Yannis Ktenas, Nikos Ioannou and Ioanna Maravelidi, from the editorial team of Babylonia, in conversation with Kristin Ross, during B-Fest 7, 2018.
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