We Are Many e-book

Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation

Kate Khatib

We have all been swept up by the momentum of the Occupy movement. We have seen the results of years of organizing in different communities come together in ways that few could have imagined,...

Territories in Resistance

A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements

Raul Zibechi

“Emancipation,” argues Raúl Zibechi, “is not an objective but a way of life.” For the last half century, new and emancipatory social formations have worked to carve out their own territories in...

The Price of Fire e-book

Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia

Benjamin Dangl

New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the "price of fire"—access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources. Though these movements...

Direct Action e-book

An Ethnography

David Graeber

In the best tradition of participant-observation, anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. Starting from the assumption that,...

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...

Hopeless

Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion

Jeffrey St. Clair

The election of Barack Obama sparked long-dormant tingles of optimism in even the most entrenched political cynics. But the promise of an Obama revolution fizzled out even before his inauguration,...

Uses of a Whirlwind

Team Colors Collective

In the midst of a moment defined by international crises, community devastation, increasing injustice, and ruptures in the fabric of everyday life, winds of resistance continue to emerge and to...

How the Economy Was Lost

The War of the Worlds

Paul Craig Roberts

The US economy has disintegrated, and with it into the abyss plummet the blueprints of neoliberal economists, whose theories about "the free market" have now gone the way of medieval alchemy. No...

The Battle of the Story of the "Battle of Seattle"

David Solnit

With the World Trade Organization in retreat globally, do we remember the seeds of the anti-capitalist movements that blossomed and, in 1999, brought Seattle to a standstill? This collection...