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Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power, Community Organizing in Radical Times
My mom taught in a public high school in Columbus, Ga in the mid-1950’s. These were the years after the Brown v Board of Education decision, desegregating the public schools. Many of her poorer white students clung to the idea of racial superiority, despite the federal policy doing away with separate but equal schools. Without the privilege of whiteness, there was nothing to separate them from the Black population of South Georgia, many seemed to complain. Even then, mom felt the unease settling in among poor whites who felt marginalized. It was not clear what direction poor whites were moving in as the 1960’s approached. While some embraced the Highlander Folk School and solidarity with the burgeoning Civil Rights movement, more could be seen gravitating toward Strom Thurmond. Yet, reaching out to them was not easy. “You could find yourself getting shot at,” recalled my father. Yet, where did this leave movements for change?
Continue reading...Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms
1. February 2010
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The stated aim of Rebel Alliances is to “provide a convincing, documented account of contemporary anarchism and to critically evaluate its tactical and organisational forms through an appropriate framework.”
Continue reading...Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History
24. June 2009
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Wobblies and Zapatistas is basically a long conversation between Grubacic and Lynd about building bridges between the best traditions within anarchism and Marxism written for modern militants, revolutionaries, and working people. It is a series of provocations, led by Grubacic as he asks Lynd probing questions about radical practice contemporarily and historically.
Continue reading...Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth
11. January 2009
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Igniting a Revolution is a contemporary anthology that argues for a new wave in the history of environmentalism that its editors Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella, II claim as revolutionary environmentalism: a collective movement that seeks total liberation by building expansive alliance networks and understanding between all radical social struggles. The book is both a reflection of the new multi-issue alliance based politics that emerged during the 1990’s and a call and catalyst for their intensification.
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13. April 2012
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