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Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere

The New Global Revolutions

Paul Mason

The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were...

Asia's Unknown Uprisings, Volume 1

South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century

George Katsiaficas

Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned the country’s politics and...

Fire and Flames

A History of the German Autonomist Movement

Geronimo

Translated for the first time into English, the history of the German autonomous anticapitalist movement is traced back to the 1970s in this firsthand account. Battling police in riot gear, the...

A Time to Die

The Attica Prison Revolt

Tom Wicker

In September 1971 the inmates of Attica prison revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. At the outset the rebels demanded—and were granted—the...

American Insurgents

A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism

Richard Seymour

All empires spin self-serving myths, and in the United States the most potent of these is that America is a force for democracy around the world. Yet there is a tradition of American...

Viva La Revolution!

The Story of People Power in 30 Revolutions

Derry Nairn

Popular revolution has forged global superpowers, shaken empires, brought a halt to oppression, upended social and political divisions, established the first independent black nation, and given...

Arab Youth

Social Mobilisation in Times of Risk

Samir Khalaf

In 2011, Arab youth took to the streets in their thousands to demand their freedom. Although it is too early to speculate on the ultimate outcome of the uprisings, one auspicious feature stands...

Arab Spring, Libyan Winter

Vijay Prashad

This brief, timely analysis situates the assault on Libya in the context of the winds of revolt that swept through the Middle East in the Spring of 2011. Vijay Prashad explores the recent history...

The Paris Commune

A Revolution in Democracy

Donny Gluckstein

For two months in 1871, the workers of Paris took control of Europe’s most celebrated capital city. When they established the world’s first workers’ democracy—the Paris Commune—they found no...