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We Go Where They Go (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of Anti-Racist Action

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for today's anti-fascist organizing in North America. When skinheads and punks in the late 1980s found their communities invaded by white supremacists and neo-nazis, they fought back. Influenced by anarchism, feminism, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty, they created Anti-Racist Action. At ARA's height in the 1990s, thousands of dedicated activists in hundreds of chapters joined the fightspolitical and sometimes physicalagainst nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, anti-abortion fundamentalists, and racist police. Before media pundits, cynical politicians, and your uncle discovered antifa, Anti-Racist Action was bringing it to the streets.



Based on extensive interviews with dozens of ARA participants, We Go Where They Go tells ARA's story from within, giving voice to those who risked their safety in their own defense and in solidarity with others. In reproducing the posters, zines, propaganda and photos of the movement itself, this essential work of radical history illustrates how cultural scenes can become powerful forces for change. Here at last is the story of an organic yet highly organized movement, exploring both its triumphs and failures, and offering valuable lessons for today's generation of activists and rabble-rousers. We Go Where They Go is a page-turning history of grassroots anti-racism. More than just inspiration, it's a roadmap.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781629639871
• Artikelnr.: 64249196

Autorenporträt

Kristin Schwartz grew up with the Toronto chapter of ARA from 1992 until 2003, and is grateful to have had that opportunity to contribute to the long struggle against white supremacy. She went on to work in community radio and has produced several audio documentaries including Women: the Oppressed Majority (2016); The Latin American Revolution (2014) and The Ravaging of Africa (2007); some were syndicated across the Pacifica Network. Her writing has been published in Our Times, Canadian Dimension, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor and Labour/Le Travail.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the English Version
Translator’s Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Foreword
I. Points of Solidarity
    The First International and the Paris Commune (1871)
    May Day and the Haymarket Martyrs (1886)
    Revolutionary Trade Unionism and the Charter of Amiens (1906)
    The Spanish Revolution (1936–1937)
    May 68
    From Alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
    Portraits
    Louise Michel
    Pierre Monatte
    Rosa Luxemburg
    Emma Goldman
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Benjamin Péret
    Subcomandante Marcos
II. Points of Conflict
    The Russian Revolution (1917–1920)
October 1917
The Split between Red and Black
    Party and Soviets
    Revisiting the Kronstadt Tragedy
The Two Versions of the Conflict
A Sissenting View: Victor Serge
An Error and a Wrong
Makhno: Red and Black in Ukraine (1918–1921)
III. A Few Libertarian Marxist Thinkers
    Walter Benjamin
    André Breton
    Daniel Guérin
IV. Policy Issues
Individual and Collective
Making Revolution without Taking Power?
Autonomy and Federalism
Democratic Economic Planning and Self-management
Direct and Representative Democracy
Union and Party
Ecosocialism and Anarchist Ecology
Conclusion
Toward a Libertarian Marxism