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Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto
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
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
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112 pages, Paperback
Published April 14, 2026
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November 26, 2025
An anarch-ish manifesto about international solidarity and popular uprisings. Mostly filled with the same kinds of platitudes that you would have seen a decade ago, but enough critical lines of thought around why the previous cycles of uprisings largely failed or got co-opted to keep it kind of interesting. But still feels like its asking questions that, while crucial to ask, should have been answered years ago...
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I expected this to be more... revolutionary. More of a manifesto. Maybe I'm already too deep in the whole far left business, but none of what was mentioned in this book felt very revolutionary to me, so I would recommend this more to people who are starting to learn about internationalism, and not to people who already have a pretty well considered political standpoint and background knowledge on various revolutions. It felt quite Revolutions 101, and I missed the radical part, the discussing potential actions part (even if obviously, they cannot have a solution ready), which is why this sadly is only a 3 star read for me. This book was simply trying to do too much at once, in too little space. Also quite disappointed by the total lack of mention of disability rights, while class, gender, sexuality, race etc. were all mentioned. Disabled people are also worthy of mention when it comes to revolutions, and sadly, we are frequently not thought of even in otherwise progressive or even revolutionary spaces. Do better.
(I'm also not sure if maybe I'm just not in the wrong circles, but several times when they talked about, for example, "authoritarian and statist leftists" automatically disapproving the plight of the people of Hong Kong as this struggle is (more or less) U.S.-supported, I wondered if such people really exist? Maybe I just really am not in those circles and have been lucky enough to be spared such points of view, but it was something I wondered about.)
I expected this to be more... revolutionary. More of a manifesto. Maybe I'm already too deep in the whole far left business, but none of what was mentioned in this book felt very revolutionary to me, so I would recommend this more to people who are starting to learn about internationalism, and not to people who already have a pretty well considered political standpoint and background knowledge on various revolutions. It felt quite Revolutions 101, and I missed the radical part, the discussing potential actions part (even if obviously, they cannot have a solution ready), which is why this sadly is only a 3 star read for me. This book was simply trying to do too much at once, in too little space. Also quite disappointed by the total lack of mention of disability rights, while class, gender, sexuality, race etc. were all mentioned. Disabled people are also worthy of mention when it comes to revolutions, and sadly, we are frequently not thought of even in otherwise progressive or even revolutionary spaces. Do better.
(I'm also not sure if maybe I'm just not in the wrong circles, but several times when they talked about, for example, "authoritarian and statist leftists" automatically disapproving the plight of the people of Hong Kong as this struggle is (more or less) U.S.-supported, I wondered if such people really exist? Maybe I just really am not in those circles and have been lucky enough to be spared such points of view, but it was something I wondered about.)
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
I received this ARC for free but this is an honest review.
3½ Stars.
This is a very short read for what it's trying to accomplish and talk about it and due to that it doesn't expand as much as it could. However that's not to say it's a bad thing, it does read as a more approachable way to talk about internationalism for people who don't read a lot of nonfiction and just need a place to start. It mentions a lot of things that have happened outside of the more major places that you hear about like the US and the UK. However due to both the shortness and the broadness of it all, it can occasionally have it come across as more surface level then I'm sure was intended, not to mention it acts as more of a guide in some places rather then a general history collection like I was assuming it would be based off of the... everything about the book that it was showing itself as.
But I'd still recommend this for someone wanting to dip their toes into this topic for the first time or just starting out in their political nonfiction journey.
3½ Stars.
This is a very short read for what it's trying to accomplish and talk about it and due to that it doesn't expand as much as it could. However that's not to say it's a bad thing, it does read as a more approachable way to talk about internationalism for people who don't read a lot of nonfiction and just need a place to start. It mentions a lot of things that have happened outside of the more major places that you hear about like the US and the UK. However due to both the shortness and the broadness of it all, it can occasionally have it come across as more surface level then I'm sure was intended, not to mention it acts as more of a guide in some places rather then a general history collection like I was assuming it would be based off of the... everything about the book that it was showing itself as.
But I'd still recommend this for someone wanting to dip their toes into this topic for the first time or just starting out in their political nonfiction journey.
June 16, 2026
I so wanted to enjoy this but the English translation is poorly edited. It's more a reflection of conversations about shared experiences rather than a manifesto.
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