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„We Are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008″ and „Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement“, New in Catalog, 2010-05-06
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We just got a new shipment of books in from AK Press, and the timing couldnt be better. Not only are most titles in the literature catalogue available again, we also got two excellent new titles, one of which extremely timely.
The first is "We Are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of December 2008." This book is the reason why we gave up on our own book about the Greek revolt. AK Press does it better, with better distribution, faster, and even spoke to some of the same people we were speaking to for the texts!
The intro...
What causes a city, then a whole country, to explode? How did one neighborhood's outrage over the tragic death of one teenager transform itself into a generalized insurrection against State and capital, paralyzing an entire nation for a month?
This is a book about the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, killed by the police in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens on December 6th, 2008, and of the revolution in the streets that followed, bringing business as usual in Greece to a screeching, burning halt for three marvelous weeks, and putting the fear of history back into the bureaucrats of Fortress Europe and beyond.
We Are an Image From the Future delves into the December insurrection and its aftermath through interviews with those who witnessed and participated in it, alongside the communiqués and texts that circulated through the networks of revolt. It provides the on-the-ground facts needed to understand these historic events, and also dispels the myths activists outside of Greece have constructed around them. What emerges is not just the intensity of the riots, but the stories of organizing and solidarity, the questions of strategy and tactics: a desperately needed examination of the fabric of the Greek movements that made December possible.
The second title is not of particular current events relevance, but simply interesting.
"A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement"
"The defining influence of anarchist currents in the early kibbutz movement has been one of official Zionist historiography's best-kept secrets...It is against this background of induced collective amnesia that A Living Revolution makes its vital contribution. James Horrox has drawn on archival research, interviews and political analysis to thread together the story of a period all but gone from living memory, presenting it for the first time to an English-reading audience. These pages bring to life the most radical and passionate voices that shaped the second and third waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine, and also encounter those contemporary projects working to revive the spirit of the kibbutz as it was intended to be, despite, and because of, their predecessors' fate." —Uri Gordon, from the foreword
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