From Riot to Insurrection: The G8 Summit of 2001 & The Battle of Genoa
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description: “…but in the end, we will win.” In 1992, following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the ruling class declared the end of history and the triumph of capitalism. Less than two years later, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas galvanized a worldwide movement against capitalist globalization. All around the world, history began to crack and move again, like a frozen river thawing in the spring. This momentum culminated in July 2001 with the protests against the G8 summit, in what became known as the battle of Genoa. For days, tens of thousands of aspiring revolutionaries clashed with an army of police in a city on fire. From Riot to Insurrection offers a vivid account of this pivotal moment. In electrifying prose, Tomas Rothaus escorts the reader through those explosive days, recounting the chaotic street battles, the exhilarating sense of possibility, the heart-wrenching moments of triumph and loss. This is an ode to audacity, to what we become capable of when we believe in our collective power. The real lesson of the end of the Cold War is not that capitalism is inevitable; it is that empires always fall. While “socialism without freedom” had crumbled by 1992, “freedom without socialism” has yet to expire. That revolution remains possible—even today—provided that we fight for it the way people did in Genoa. What People Are Saying “Tomas Rothaus’s writing is able to thread the ever-thin-needle between lived history, the rush of revolutionary moments, incisive analysis, and humor in his writings on Genoa. I cannot recommend his work highly enough to anyone who wants to understand both radical anarchist politics and the lessons that the antiglobalization movement of the 1990s and early 2000s has to offer us.” Charlie Allison, author of No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno “In the past half century, there was one tiny window when a global anticapitalist movement was on the offensive: the short years of the so-called antiglobalizatio…
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