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David Graeber is one of the foremost intellectuals in the global justice movement, keeping one foot in the library and the other in the streets. read more »

Forty years ago this month, France exploded in a wave of insurrection. Factories were occupied and universities shut down in one of the largest strike waves of the 20th century. read more »

In 2005, the suburban housing projects that house France’s underclass erupted in riots. In the largest uprising since May 1968, residents attacked cops and burned cars following the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted while fleeing the police. read more »

Unaccompanied by serious organizing, the act of dreaming Duncombe proposes for progressives leads in two directions. It can become a public relations strategy for existing political forces (the Democrats). Or it can turn into the temporary autonomous zone-style politics of Reclaim the Streets, of which Duncombe was an organizer, where organizing is not devoted to social change but to living our moments of liberation in the present tense — before the cops come. Duncombe is right that progressives have been out-dreamed by the right, but more importantly, they have been out-organized. read more »

DETROIT—The lights were turned off at 2 a.m., but the conversations went until dawn at the Unitarian church where many of the 150 attendees of the new Student for a Democratic Society’s (SDS) second national convention were crashing. While some of us slept in the basement — exhausted by long journeys to Detroit and 15-hour days spent in airless rooms, debating proposals and learning how to build a movement — others gathered upstairs in groups large and small. read more »

Despite denouncements of “tenured radicals” by commentators on the right, there are few academics with ties to social movements. Plenty of academics write articles for obscure journals on transgression or “interrogate” race, gender and class, but almost none are found in the streets. This is the classic bargain of academia: you can think subversive thoughts as long as you don’t act upon them. Case in point: the firing of Constituent Imagination co-editor David Graeber from Yale University’s anthropology department. read more »

Outlaws Of America: The Weather Underground And The Politics Of Solidarity By Dan Berger AK Press (2006) read more »

The Subversion Of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements And Decolonization Of Everyday Life By George Katsiaficas AK Press (2006, Rerelease) read more »

Three decades after its storied meltdown, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is back. And it’s reemerged into a country that looks strangely the same. The United States is bogged down in another unpopular war, the corporatization of the university continues, people of color are fighting to be treated as full citizens. read more »

IMPERIAL AMBITIONS NOAM CHOMSKY AND DAVID BARSAMIAN METROPOLITAN BOOKS, 2005 read more »

FRAGMENTS OF AN ANARCHIST ANTHROPOLOGY DAVID GRAEBER PRICKLY PARADIGM PRESS, 2004 read more »

In bringing the story of the “McLibel Two” to film, director Franny Armstrong has managed to be muckraking and occasionally inspiring without being derivative. read more »

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A black woman wrote the Matrix. read more »

Despite differences between Bush and Kerry, not a single major issue was truly up for grabs in last year’s election. read more »