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Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come
How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact does it have on those who participate in it and those who simply watch it? Is the Greek revolt of December 2008 confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, or are there lessons we can bring to bear on social action around the globe?
Revolt and Crisis in Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come is a collective attempt to grapple with these questions. A collaboration between anarchist publishing collectives Occupied London and AK Press, this timely new volume traces Greece's long moment of transition from the revolt of 2008 to the economic crisis that followed. In its twenty chapters, authors from around the world including those on the ground in Greece analyse how December became possible, exploring its legacies and the position of the social antagonist movement in face of the economic crisis and the arrival of the International Monetary Fund.
In the essays collected here, over two dozen writers offer historical analysis of the factors that gave birth to December and the potentialities it has opened up in face of the capitalist crisis. Yet the book also highlights the dilemmas the antagonist movement has been faced with the book is an open question and a call to the global antagonist movement, and its allies around the world, to radically rethink and redefine our tactics in a rapidly changing landscape where crises and potentialities are engaged in a fierce battle with an uncertain outcome.
Contributors include Vaso Makrygianni, Haris Tsavdaroglou, Christos Filippidis, Christos Giovanopoulos, TPTG, Metropolitan Sirens, Yannis Kallianos, Hara Kouki, Kirilov, Some of Us, Soula M., Christos Lynteris, Yiannis Kaplanis, David Graeber, Christos Boukalas, Alex Trocchi, Antonis Vradis, Dimitris Dalakoglou and the Occupied London Collective. Art and design by Leandros, Klara Jaya Brekke and Tim Simons. Edited by Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou of Occupied London.
Revolt and Crisis in Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come is a collective attempt to grapple with these questions. A collaboration between anarchist publishing collectives Occupied London and AK Press, this timely new volume traces Greece's long moment of transition from the revolt of 2008 to the economic crisis that followed. In its twenty chapters, authors from around the world including those on the ground in Greece analyse how December became possible, exploring its legacies and the position of the social antagonist movement in face of the economic crisis and the arrival of the International Monetary Fund.
In the essays collected here, over two dozen writers offer historical analysis of the factors that gave birth to December and the potentialities it has opened up in face of the capitalist crisis. Yet the book also highlights the dilemmas the antagonist movement has been faced with the book is an open question and a call to the global antagonist movement, and its allies around the world, to radically rethink and redefine our tactics in a rapidly changing landscape where crises and potentialities are engaged in a fierce battle with an uncertain outcome.
Contributors include Vaso Makrygianni, Haris Tsavdaroglou, Christos Filippidis, Christos Giovanopoulos, TPTG, Metropolitan Sirens, Yannis Kallianos, Hara Kouki, Kirilov, Some of Us, Soula M., Christos Lynteris, Yiannis Kaplanis, David Graeber, Christos Boukalas, Alex Trocchi, Antonis Vradis, Dimitris Dalakoglou and the Occupied London Collective. Art and design by Leandros, Klara Jaya Brekke and Tim Simons. Edited by Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou of Occupied London.
378 pages, Paperback
First published June 15, 2011
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March 15, 2018
This book is really really good, and covers more than just the events of 2008. The history of social movements and anarchism in Greece through the 80s and 90s really filled in gaps in my knowledge. I also found the first section "The Site: Athens" a really interesting orientation to the city and how it shaped the now famous events of 08, as well as ongoing anarchist struggle here. There are some authors I disagree with, but I learned a lot from pretty much every essay, even as someone who already knew a good amount about the 2008 revolt in Athens and anarchism in the city.
October 11, 2017
The first half is almost entirely tired abstract theories of Marxist economics, urban planning, and ontologies of the 'Event'. The second half has some good essays though. Unfortunately very little first person narratives or descriptions of the organizing and actions in Greece.
August 30, 2017
Actually 3.5 stars. I found some of the essays very interesting while other were much less engaging.
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August 24, 2011If you're an anarchist I'd say you should read this, regardless of your location. It contains both celebration and critique from author to author, with much that is good to think about for those identified in however loose a way with that strand of the movement. I'm still wrapping my head around what it offers to others and how much it deepens understanding of the crisis in the wider context or how that might be important for other geographies, but it certainly does offer a great deal for reflection. Still, I am finding it very hard to rate. I have to review this elsewhere and 'officially' so I'm just mulling it over, but I enjoyed it.
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