Category Archives: occupy

The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy

The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy by Peter Gelgerloos From the Arab Spring to the plaza occupation movement in Spain, the student movement in the UK and Occupy in the US, many new social movements have started peacefully, only to adopt a diversity of tactics as they grew in strength and […]

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Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement 2009-2011

Anarchists in the Occupy Movement 2009-2011 Anarchists have been part of Occupy since before it was even clearly a movement. This is a book where anarchists, in their own words, express how and why they engaged in Occupy, what methods they used, and how to evaluate the success of Occupy on anarchist terms. It also […]

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Exhaustion

This year we did this 10 week death march where we published eight new titles in about 10 weeks. We’ve gotten rather good at all the wrangling, negotiating, and logistics necessary to do such an amount of work but that doesn’t mean it comes free. In a capitalist economy there are always costs and with […]

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Production Notes – March 2012

I am not writing very much right now. I wish I was. I am so entirely mired in the day-to-day workflow of LBC that it has become nearly impossible to keep track of all the details or to look past them. I want to keep a record of this work (both types) though so I […]

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