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The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

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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Anarchy Works

By casper | Published: February 4, 2014

Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos This book takes examples from around the world, picking through history and anthropology, showing that people have, in different ways and at different times, demonstrated mutual aid, self-organization, autonomy, horizontal decision making, and so forth–the principles that anarchy is founded on–regardless of whether they called themselves anarchists or not. Too […]

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