Description
Book SynopsisThe first radical, collective manifesto of the new decade
Trade Review'Here are the first flowers of spring: the beginning of an epochal dialogue about the human future. Inspired by the Occupy movements across the world, What We Are Fighting For should inspire all of us to join the conversation'
-- Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and City of Quartz.
'A rallying point for all those who resist the dogmas of contemporary politics and seek a fresh set of alternatives'
-- Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School, New York, and author of The Faith of the Faithless (2012).
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Part 1 - New Economics
1. Michael Albert - Participatory Economics From Capitalism
2. Ann Pettifor - Let Ideas and Art Be International, Goods Be Homespun and Finance Primarily National
3. Milford Bateman - A New Local Financial System For Sustainable Communities
4. Shaun Chamberlin - The Struggle For Meaning
Part 2 - New Governance
5. Richard Seymour - Towards a New Model Commune
6. Peter Hallward - The Dictatorship of the People
7. Mark J Smith - Practical Utopianism and Ecological Citizenship
8. Marina Sitrin - Occupy: Making Democracy a Question
Part 3 - New Public
9. Owen Jones - New Class Politics
10. Hilary Wainwright - “An Excess of Democracy”
11. Dan Hind - A Program of Media Reform
12. Zillah Eisenstein - Renewing Intersectionality
Part 4 - New Social Imagination
13. Mark Fisher - Post-Capitalist Desire
14. Franco Berardi Bifo - The Transversal Function of Disentaglement
15. Saul Newman - Why Do We Obey
16. Federico Campagna - Squandering
Part 5 - Tactics of Struggle
17. David Graeber - Revolution of Common Sense
18. Nina Power - Winning the Media War
19. Alberto Toscano - Reforming the Unreformable
20. Solidarity Federation - Direct Action and Unmediated Struggle
Afterword
21. John Holloway - Rage Against the Rule of Money
Acknowledgments
Index
