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    Imperiled Life: Revolution against Climate Catastrophe
    Undoing Border Imperialism
    Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle
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    Anarchist Interventions Series

    By Cindy Milstein, Andrew Cornell, Javier Sethness and

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    About this series

    Rarely remembered by name today, many of the new ways of doing radical politics that the Movement for a New Society (MNS) promoted have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements. MNS popularized consensus decision making, introduced the spokescouncil method of organization to activists in the United States, and was a leading advocate of a variety of practices—communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, creating co-operatively owned businesses—that are now often subsumed under the rubric of “prefigurative politics.”

    Oppose and Propose fills an important historical gap, asking where do the tactics, strategies, and even ways of living we take for granted today come from? Cornell answers that question through a long monograph based on original research--followed by an edited transcript of a panel discussion held with former MNS members, an interview with MNS founder George Lakey, and excerpts from two MNS pamphlets.

    This book should interest academic and activist audiences. It is the first in-depth study of an important post-1960s group that redefined the way radical politics happen in the US. It also uses that history to raise crucial strategic and organizational questions for activists today. It’s an engaging, serious, and accessible study in which every page offers new insights.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAK Press
    Release dateDec 1, 1988
    Imperiled Life: Revolution against Climate Catastrophe
    Undoing Border Imperialism
    Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle

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      Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle
      Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle

      Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle

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      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.

      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.

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      Imperiled Life: Revolution against Climate Catastrophe
      Imperiled Life: Revolution against Climate Catastrophe

      Imperiled Life: Revolution against Climate Catastrophe

      Javier Sethness
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      Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster. Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory. Javier Sethness-Castro is a libertarian socialist and a rights advocate. Imperiled Life is his first book.

      Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster. Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory. Javier Sethness-Castro is a libertarian socialist and a rights advocate. Imperiled Life is his first book.

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      Undoing Border Imperialism
      Undoing Border Imperialism

      Undoing Border Imperialism

      Harsha Walia
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      Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America. Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator rooted in emancipatory movements and communities for over a decade. Praise for Undoing Border Imperialism: Border imperialism is an apt conceptualization for capturing the politics of massive displacement due to capitalist neoglobalization. Within the wealthy countries, Canada’s No One Is Illegal is one of the most effective organizations of migrants and allies. Walia is an outstanding organizer who has done a lot of thinking and can writenot a common combination. Besides being brilliantly conceived and presented, this book is the first extended work on immigration that refuses to make First Nations sovereignty invisible.”Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of Indians of the Americas and Blood on the Border Harsha Walia’s Undoing Border Imperialism demonstrates that geography has certainly not ended, and nor has the urge for people to stretch out our arms across borders to create our communities. One of the most rewarding things about this book is its capaciousnessastute insights that emerge out of careful organizing linked to the voices of a generation of strugglers, trying to find their own analysis to build their own movements to make this world our own. This is both a manual and a memoir, a guide to the world and a guide to the organizer's heart.”Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World This book belongs in every wannabe revolutionary’s war backpack. I addictively jumped all over its contents: a radical mixtape of ancestral wisdoms to present-day grounded organizers theorizing about their own experiences. A must for me is Walia’s decision to infuse this volume’s fight against border imperialism, white supremacy, and empire with the vulnerability of her own personal narrative. This book is a breath of fresh air and offers an urgently needed movement-based praxis. Undoing Border Imperialism is too hot to be sitting on bookshelves; it will help make the revolution.”Ashanti Alston, Black Panther elder and former political prisoner

      Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America. Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator rooted in emancipatory movements and communities for over a decade. Praise for Undoing Border Imperialism: Border imperialism is an apt conceptualization for capturing the politics of massive displacement due to capitalist neoglobalization. Within the wealthy countries, Canada’s No One Is Illegal is one of the most effective organizations of migrants and allies. Walia is an outstanding organizer who has done a lot of thinking and can writenot a common combination. Besides being brilliantly conceived and presented, this book is the first extended work on immigration that refuses to make First Nations sovereignty invisible.”Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of Indians of the Americas and Blood on the Border Harsha Walia’s Undoing Border Imperialism demonstrates that geography has certainly not ended, and nor has the urge for people to stretch out our arms across borders to create our communities. One of the most rewarding things about this book is its capaciousnessastute insights that emerge out of careful organizing linked to the voices of a generation of strugglers, trying to find their own analysis to build their own movements to make this world our own. This is both a manual and a memoir, a guide to the world and a guide to the organizer's heart.”Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World This book belongs in every wannabe revolutionary’s war backpack. I addictively jumped all over its contents: a radical mixtape of ancestral wisdoms to present-day grounded organizers theorizing about their own experiences. A must for me is Walia’s decision to infuse this volume’s fight against border imperialism, white supremacy, and empire with the vulnerability of her own personal narrative. This book is a breath of fresh air and offers an urgently needed movement-based praxis. Undoing Border Imperialism is too hot to be sitting on bookshelves; it will help make the revolution.”Ashanti Alston, Black Panther elder and former political prisoner

    • Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
      Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle

      Decolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle

      Maia Ramnath
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      The third in AK's popular collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Ramnath is an IAS board member, and a respected member of the anarchist intellectual community. South Asian/Indian anarchism is a largely unexplored topic; most anarchist histories tend to focus on Europe and Latin America. This new study provides a window into radicalism in a part of the world that is largely unknown in the West. Thinkers like Arundhati Roy and Vandana Shiva have helped to generate interest in Indian authors. Ramnath follows in their footsteps.

      The third in AK's popular collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Ramnath is an IAS board member, and a respected member of the anarchist intellectual community. South Asian/Indian anarchism is a largely unexplored topic; most anarchist histories tend to focus on Europe and Latin America. This new study provides a window into radicalism in a part of the world that is largely unknown in the West. Thinkers like Arundhati Roy and Vandana Shiva have helped to generate interest in Indian authors. Ramnath follows in their footsteps.

    • Anarchism and Its Aspirations
      Anarchism and Its Aspirations

      Anarchism and Its Aspirations

      Cindy Milstein
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      From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the protesters in the Battle of Seattle” and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have long been incited to action by the ideal of a free society of free individuals”a transformed world in which people and communities relate to each other intentionally and without hierarchy or domination. But what exactly would that look like, and how can we get there? Anarchism and Its Aspirations provides an accessible overview of the history and hopeful future of this vision for a better world. The book quickly brings even the uninitiated reader up to speed with a crash course on some of the most influential anarchists in history and their ideas about how we might achieve the transformation of society. From there, the book looks at how these principles have been put into practice by groups such as the Situationist International, social ecologists, Zapatistas, anti-globalization activists, and other directly democratic organizations and communities in their respective struggles against capitalism and state control. Laying out a clear introduction to some of the main ideas behind an often-misunderstood political philosophy, Anarchism and Its Aspirations helps us imagine the vast possibility of a truly free and democratic society. Cindy Milstein is an activist and educator from Vermont. She serves on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, co-organizes the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, and is a collective member at Black Sheep Books. Her essays have appeared in several anthologies, including Realizing the Impossible, Confronting Capitalism, and Globalize LiberationX.

      From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the protesters in the Battle of Seattle” and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have long been incited to action by the ideal of a free society of free individuals”a transformed world in which people and communities relate to each other intentionally and without hierarchy or domination. But what exactly would that look like, and how can we get there? Anarchism and Its Aspirations provides an accessible overview of the history and hopeful future of this vision for a better world. The book quickly brings even the uninitiated reader up to speed with a crash course on some of the most influential anarchists in history and their ideas about how we might achieve the transformation of society. From there, the book looks at how these principles have been put into practice by groups such as the Situationist International, social ecologists, Zapatistas, anti-globalization activists, and other directly democratic organizations and communities in their respective struggles against capitalism and state control. Laying out a clear introduction to some of the main ideas behind an often-misunderstood political philosophy, Anarchism and Its Aspirations helps us imagine the vast possibility of a truly free and democratic society. Cindy Milstein is an activist and educator from Vermont. She serves on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, co-organizes the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, and is a collective member at Black Sheep Books. Her essays have appeared in several anthologies, including Realizing the Impossible, Confronting Capitalism, and Globalize LiberationX.

    • Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society
      Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society

      Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society

      Andrew Cornell
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      Rarely remembered by name today, many of the new ways of doing radical politics that the Movement for a New Society (MNS) promoted have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements. MNS popularized consensus decision making, introduced the spokescouncil method of organization to activists in the United States, and was a leading advocate of a variety of practices—communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, creating co-operatively owned businesses—that are now often subsumed under the rubric of “prefigurative politics.” Oppose and Propose fills an important historical gap, asking where do the tactics, strategies, and even ways of living we take for granted today come from? Cornell answers that question through a long monograph based on original research--followed by an edited transcript of a panel discussion held with former MNS members, an interview with MNS founder George Lakey, and excerpts from two MNS pamphlets. This book should interest academic and activist audiences. It is the first in-depth study of an important post-1960s group that redefined the way radical politics happen in the US. It also uses that history to raise crucial strategic and organizational questions for activists today. It’s an engaging, serious, and accessible study in which every page offers new insights.

      Rarely remembered by name today, many of the new ways of doing radical politics that the Movement for a New Society (MNS) promoted have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements. MNS popularized consensus decision making, introduced the spokescouncil method of organization to activists in the United States, and was a leading advocate of a variety of practices—communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, creating co-operatively owned businesses—that are now often subsumed under the rubric of “prefigurative politics.” Oppose and Propose fills an important historical gap, asking where do the tactics, strategies, and even ways of living we take for granted today come from? Cornell answers that question through a long monograph based on original research--followed by an edited transcript of a panel discussion held with former MNS members, an interview with MNS founder George Lakey, and excerpts from two MNS pamphlets. This book should interest academic and activist audiences. It is the first in-depth study of an important post-1960s group that redefined the way radical politics happen in the US. It also uses that history to raise crucial strategic and organizational questions for activists today. It’s an engaging, serious, and accessible study in which every page offers new insights.

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    Cindy Milstein

    Cindy Milstein is author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations and editor of the anthologies Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism, Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, and Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy. Long engaged in anarchistic organizing, contemporary social movements, and collective spaces, for the past couple years Cindy focused on doing support work for the J20 defendants, touring extensively with her latest edited anthology, Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, and co-organizing the 2019 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. Currently, Cindy co-organizes the Institute for Advanced Troublemaking, and is honored, when called on, to do death doula and grief care.

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