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A hot topic, and one that fills newspaper columns every time another young place person is killed by the police.The question of how white radicals can and should relate to their black comrades in the streets is one of the more vexing problems activists have faced in recent years. It is also a question that police and politicians have used to divide social movements and set them bickering.Milstein’s goal here is to provide answers to that question in advance.Tackles important questions: What should solidarity should look like? Who is an outside agitator? And who gets to decide when African American social movements are themselves divided over tactical and political approaches?
Grabbing Back
• Featuring new essays by Noam Chomsky, Michael Hardt, Vandana Shiva, and others, this collection brings together some of the foremost writers on land, economics and development.• Eminent domain is just the tip of the iceberg in the international land-grabbing scheme. Between private and public institutions any of our common and private land could be taken for a greater “purpose.” • The enclosure of the commons doesn’t simply change our relationship to the land, it dramatically changes our relationship to each other. This book shows us what we are truly at risk of losing.• This book addresses the multifaceted impacts of land grabbing, examining the environment, indigenous issues, transnational trade, and post-industrial blight.
The New Brazil
In the midst of a rapidly shifting global economy, Brazil has emerged as a powerful new player on the geopolitical stage. Against all odds, the Latin American nation managed, in just three years, to repay a 2002 $15.5 billion IMF bailout loan thanks to aggressive economic restructuring and a series of alliances that have placed it at the center of political and economic power in the region.From the outside, Brazil is a poster child for neoliberal capitalism. Yet inside the country, the lives of the Brazilian people are still marked by vast inequities in wealth and access to social services–a striking disparity with the nation's newfound power in the global economy. In June of 2013, protests against the increasing costs of public transportation swelled to mass demonstrations against the Rousseff government's failure to address this disparity, leading many to wonder whether the popular movements in Brazil may be just powerful enough to shift the nation's influence towards a wholly new economic model based in regional integration. The New Brazil explores this disparity. Will the nation serve as the glue that holds together the Latin American states, distancing themselves from the neoliberalism of the United States and Canada? Or will Brazil simply become another world superpower, able to subject the rest of Latin American to its will? Only time will tell. Raul Zibechi is a journalist and social-movement analyst based in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is the author of numerous books including Dispersing Power and Territories in Resistance , both published by AK Press.
I Belong Only to Myself
Leda Rafanelli was one of the most prolific propagandists in early twentieth-century Italy. A comrade of Benito Mussolini before he turned fascist, she converted to anarchism and Islam at the age of twenty, a combination characteristic of her iconoclastic approach to life and politics. Weaving excerpts from Rafanelli's novels, poems, and essays with extensive biographical research, this book tells the story of the insurrections accompanying the birth of the Italian nation, the evolution of the anarchist movement, struggles for alternatives to bourgeois feminism, and the dangers faced by those opposing global war and fascism. Andrea Pakieser is a writer and translator currently at the University of Paris.
Presente!
Immigration is a hot-button issue, and Presente! offers readers an inside look into the life of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. This collection truly humanizes the immigrant experience, discussing the problems of “otherness” and integration.Having done extensive organizing work among immigrants in the southwest and northeast United States, the editors are well known within the social movement that is their audience.This is a duo language title in both English in Spanish.Presente! is beautifully illustrated by artists from the front lines of social movements.
Life During Wartime
"Together, the writers sound a sobering warning: the American government is an iron fist in a velvet glove whose purpose remains preserving the status quo and enriching the rich."— Publishers WeeklyWhat happens when the techniques of counterinsurgency, developed to squash small skirmishes and guerrilla wars on the border of Empire, blend into the state's apparatus for domestic policing? In Life During Wartime, fifteen authors and activists reflect on the American domestic security apparatus, detailing the increasing militarization of the police force and the re-emergence of infiltration and counter-intelligence as surveillance strategies, highlighting the ways that the techniques and the technologies of counterinsurgency have been applied on the home front, and offering strategies for resistance. Includes contributions Kristian Williams, Will Munger, Walidah Imarisha, George Ciccariello-Maher, Beriah Empie, Elaine Brown, Geoffrey Boyce, Conor Cash, Vicente L. Rafael, Alexander Reid Ross, Evan Tucker, Layne Mullett, Sarah Small, and Luce Guillen-Givins.
Anarchists Against the Wall
The struggle between Israel and Palestine continues unabated, and many believe that the only way to break the cycle of oppression is for Israelis to speak out against the brutal acts of their government, and demand an end to the war of territory against the Palestinians. Anarchists Against the Wall has been one of the most vocal groups in Israel to speak out against the atrocities committed by the Israeli government, and have garnered international acclaim for their work.This is the first book to explore the work of Anarchists Against the Wall, despite the group's overwhelming popularity on the world stage.Uri Gordon is one of the few openly anarchist academics in the state of Israel, and is well-known for his political viewpoints. He received widespread praise for his first book, Anarchy Alive! (Pluto Press, 2007), which should draw attention to this latest book. Likewise many of the authors in this edited collection are well-respected journalists and political commentators in their own right, so we expect a fair amount of attention.This title is the fifth in our Anarchist Interventions series, co-published with the Institute for Anarchist Studies, which has been steadily gaining in popularity over the past two years.
Queering Anarchism
“A much-needed collection that thinks through power, desire, and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality, gender, and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions.”?Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman “Against the austerity of straight politics, Queering Anarchism sketches the connections between gender mutiny, queer sexualities, and anti-authoritarian desires. Through embodied histories and incendiary critique, the contributors gathered here show how we must not stop at smashing the state; rather normativity itself is the enemy of all radical possibility.”—Eric A. Stanley, co-editor of Captive Genders What does it mean to «queer» the world around us? How does the radical refusal of the mainstream codification of GLBT identity as a new gender norm come into focus in the context of anarchist theory and practice? How do our notions of orientation inform our politics?and vice versa? Queering Anarchism brings together a diverse set of writings ranging from the deeply theoretical to the playfully personal that explore the possibilities of the concept of «queering,» turning the dominant, and largely heteronormative, structures of belief and identity entirely inside out. Ranging in topic from the economy to disability, politics, social structures, sexual practice, interpersonal relationships, and beyond, the authors here suggest that queering might be more than a set of personal preferences?pointing toward the possibility of an entirely new way of viewing the world. Contributors include Jamie Heckert, Sandra Jeppesen, Ben Shepard, Ryan Conrad, Jerimarie Liesegang, Jason Lydon, Susan Song, Stephanie Grohmann, Liat Ben-Moshe, Anthony J. Nocella, A.J. Withers, and more. Deric Shannon, C.B. Daring, J. Rogue, and Abbey Volcano are anarchists and activists who work in a wide variety of radical, feminist, and queer communities across the United States.
We Are Many
Occupy Wall Street and the movement that grew out of it was one of THE news stories for 2011.Though several books on Occupy have already appeared, this collection is unique in that it does not seek to historicize the still-developing movement. Rather, it seeks to understand where Occupy came from, what it accomplished, and where it might go from here.Developed in response to a stated need for strategic frameworks to guide future action within the movement, 99 to 1 is a movement book – developed by the movement, for the movement.Edited and compiled by long-time activists and organizers, this collection is intended to live past Occupy itself, to serve as a resource for future social movements, a strategic handbook for mass action, to avoid the necessity of reinventing the wheel over and over again.Over thirty contributors from a wealth of background and political ideologies bring their observations and experiences of 2011 to bear on the Occupy movement, while organizers from Occupations in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Boston, Baltimore, Asheville, Denver, Philadelphia, London, Toronto, and beyond share their stories of what worked and what didn't.Extensively illustrated with photographs, infographics, and sidebars.
The Accumulation of Freedom
What do anarchists think about the economic crisis? This new collection of essays explores the history and present of anarchist-inspired economic analysis.No other collection has so fully explored contemporary economics from an anarchist perspective; left-leaning readers with an interest in economic theory, as well as in participatory economics (Parecon) will find this collection of great use.Accumulation of Freedom includes contributions from some of the most well-known political economists of the radical left (including Z Magazine founder Michael Albert, and economist Robin Hahnel), and is edited by a group of promising young scholars who are garnering accolades in the scholarly community for their new book series at Routledge.Two of the editors are organizers of the annual North American Anarchist Studies Network conference; Accumulation of Freedom will launch at NAASN and the editors will tour the country throughout the Spring.