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Shelter: A Squatumentary - Hannah Dobbz (Director)
In economically turbulent times, rent and home-ownership have become unaffordable at best and impossible at worst. Thus, people all over the world continue a long tradition of reclaiming this basic human right by squatting. Shelter: A Squatumentary is a documentary film that explores the squatting movement in the East Bay from 2004 to 2007. We follow three examples of the struggle for housing in an unafforda...
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The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twnety-First Century - William K. Tabb
In what may well have been the largest popular protest in this country of the last twenty years, more than forty thousand demonstrators in Seattle effectively shut down a World Trade Organization (WTO) conference late last year. Against the backdrop of this historic event, William K. Tabb issues a comprehensive examination of the world capitalist system at the start of the twenty-first century disputing thos...
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Upping The Anti: A Journal Of Theory And Action
An excellent attempt to engage, address, and discuss the unresolved questions and dynamics within the struggles of anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism - while moving beyond the party building of the sectarian left, and the dead end of social democracy. The debut issue comes out strong, with lengthy interviews with Grace Lee Boggs and Ward Churchill; an extended essay on autonomist Marxism;...
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El precio del fuego: Las luchas por los recursos naturales y los movimientos sociales en Bolivia - Benjamin Dangl
En los ultimos años han surgido nuevos movimientos sociales en Bolivia por el "precio del fuego", por el acceso a elementos basicos para la superviviencia, como el agua, el gas, la tierra, la coca, el empleo y otros recursos. Desde los principios de la colonización española hasta las politicas mas recientes y desafios de la administración de Evo Morales, El precio del fuego ofrece...
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Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx - Chris Harman
While for most mainstream commentators the financial crisis that opened in 2007 signaled the failure of regulation and accountability, Chris Harman describes the ongoing economic turmoil as a byproduct of capitalism's inability to consider anything but the bottom line. He uses the basic concepts of Marx to show that crises are not accidental features of capitalism, but are built into its very structure, and ...
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Left Turn: Notes From The Global Intifada
Left Turn, an anti-capitalist publication coming out of the historic WTO protests in 1999 is one of the finest magazines amongst the anti-authoritarian left in terms of promoting a strong pro-organization anti-authoritarian, anti-imperialist politics. Non-sectarian in the best sense of the word, the articles, essays, analysis, and reviews will help us all gain a better understanding of the world we cu...
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Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What It Says About the Economic Crisis - Kari Lydersen
December 5, 2008: It wasn't supposed to work like this. Days after getting a $45 billion bailout from the USgovernment, Bank of America shut down a line of credit that kept Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors factory operating. The bosses, who knew what was coming, had been sneaking machinery out in the middle of the night. They closed the factory and sent the workers home. Then something surprising happened:...
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Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent - Bernardine Dohrn (Foreword by) and AK Thompson
"A manifesto for individuals who seek to destroy those structurally imposed identities that limit people's full expression of their genuine needs."—George Katsiaficas, author of Subversion of Politics

With a title that's a modern-day mash-up of Frantz Fanon and The Clash, Black Bloc, White Riot revisits the struggles against globalization that marked the beginning of the twenty-fir...
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Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global - Paul Mason
The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I.

It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candleligh...
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Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World - Kolya Abramsky (Editor)
The world's energy system is on the verge of far reaching change, and its future is up for grabs.

A worldwide struggle over who controls the sector, and for what purposes, is intensifying. "Green capitalism" is the word of the hour, and we're being told that it's finally time to "save the planet" in order to "save the economy." But what we're not being told—with a deafening silence—is that...
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