The People Want

Revolutions of Our Times

An Internationalist Manifesto

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Produktbeschreibung

An urgent declaration that advances an internationalism from below focused on people and movements as agents of our collective liberation We belong to a single transnational struggle-and we stand against an internationally organized elite. We know that if we remain isolated, we will achieve nothing. We have begun to weave a network of planetary connections from front lines to popular assemblies, from feminist strikes to resistance committees, from occupied roundabouts to occupied forests, and have discovered a common sensibility. Revolutions of Our Times draws on the experience of uprisings taking place across the globe over the past two decades and sets out a vision for revolutionary internationalism. "Although everything has been done to belittle the power of people in revolt, its impact has proved contagious .... Hope, courage, and insurrection have crossed bodies, territories, and all borders."-from the introduction

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888906323
• Artikelnr.: 75040749

Autorenporträt

The Peoples Want is a network of collectives, organizations, and individuals from across the world working together to build a new internationalism that promotes solidarity and mutual aid among those in struggle.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
How this manifesto came to be through a series of transnational gatherings
attended by internationalists from around the globe.
Recognizing Ourselves
From continent to continent, from our exile, in our travels and in our
struggles, we have found each other.
Birth of Our Power
The uprisings of our time have shown that there is no singular global
revolutionary subject, but many, and the revolts have been led, above all,
by those on the margins.
Finding the Emergency Break
The beginning of this decade underlines a simple but painful truth: as
revolution progresses, so counter-revolution grows harsher.
Turning Exile into a Position of Attack
Every attempt at revolution, every insurrection, leaves in its wake a new
generation of exiled revolutionaries
Internationalism from Below
Seeing Western countries as the only imperialist powers, and the United
States as the source of all evil, a characteristic bias of "campist"
positions, leads many on the left to excuse the crimes of the Syrian,
Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and other regimes.
The Fall of Empire
How can we avoid abandoning the idea of power to the people? How can we
combat the sham of liberal democracies without playing into the hands of
authoritarian regimes?
Revolution?
No single event can put an end to all forms of domination; we must view
revolution instead as a process.
Starting Over
We stand at a crossroads where aspirations for change confront realities of
a collapsing world. We need to find a revolutionary horizon, not just in
order to survive, but to live a life worth living.