Cindy Milstein

Grief can be a catalyst for social transformation.

The Collective Work of Grief

Rebellious Mourning

"We are the grandchildren of the Jews they could not burn." The sorrow, rebellion, and joy of Jewish anarchism.

Mending the World As Jewish Anarchists

There Is Nothing So Whole As a Broken Heart

An accessible and thorough overview of anarchist figures and tendencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Anarchism and Its Aspirations

The Promise of Direct Democracy

Deciding for Ourselves

"Taking Sides is more than a book; it's a politic aimed at the heart of every radical struggling against a racist state." —Luis A. Fernandez, author of Policing Dissent Taking Sides is a critical response to divisive debates within current movements against police violence and white supremacy, especially since Michael Brown's murder. These sharp interventions ask activists to avoid easy—and safe—answers and take on the hard work of building real grassroots solidarity across racial lines. Cindy Milstein is author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations. Her essays appeared in Realizing the Impossible, Confronting Capitalism, and Globalize Liberation.

Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism

Taking Sides

The Beauty of Our Circle

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In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions. States and capitalism, rather than providing them, only make matters worse. There’s a growing sense that we’ll have to fix this mess on our own. But how? Deciding for Ourselves, in the spirit of the Zapatistas, demonstrates that “the impossible is possible.” A better world through self-determination and self-governance is not only achievable. It is already happening in urban and rural communities around the world—from Mexico to Rojava, Denmark to Greece—as an implicit or explicit replacement for nations, police, and other forms of hierarchical social control. This anthology explores this “sense of freedom in the air,” as one piece puts it, by looking at contemporary examples of autonomous, directly democratic spaces and the real-world dilemmas they experience, all the while underscoring the egalitarian ways of life that are collectively generated in them.

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