This is history come to life.
At the turn of the century, the movement against capitalist globalization exploded onto the world stage with mass mobilizations in Quebec City, Washington, Genoa, and other cities. Anarchists faced off against heads of state, captains of industry, and riot police by the thousands. While the authorities sought to bend all living things to the profit imperative, anarchists set out to demonstrate a way of fighting that could open the road to a future beyond capitalism. The twenty-first century was up for grabs. And every time, Tomas Rothaus was there, fighting on the front line.
In Another War Is Possible, we follow Tomas from his days as a young militant to his tenure editing the publication Barricada. In vivid prose, he recounts the lessons he learned from veterans of the Spanish CNT— his first experience trading blows with police in the streets of Paris— his adventures slipping across borders to participate in epoch-making riots. With Tomas, we breathe tear gas, we tear down fences, we tour the squats and battlefields of three continents.
Along the way, Tomas shows that the tragedies of the twenty-first century were not inevitable— that another war was possible. His testimony is proof that another world remains possible today.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction by CrimeThinc.
1. Preface
2. Prologue: November 17th, 1995. 22:00 Outskirts of Athens
SECTION 1: RISING TIDE— THE PARIS YEARS
3. You Never Forget Your First Time (1996, Paris)
4. 33 Rue des Vignoles, the Passage without Time
- “ Education. Agitation. Organization. Weapons”
- The Camps, La Nueve, Patton’ s Anarchists, and the Liberation of Paris
- “ Who Knows if Maybe We Could Have Changed the Course of History? ”
- The Home of Utopia in Exile
- Otros Vendran (“ Others Will Come”)
5. Facing the Fascists, “ Europe, Jeunesse, Revolution” (May 9th of 1998)
- On the Run
- Paris, Rue Tolbiac. Sometime Earlier That Year
- Return to Rue des Chartreux. May 9th of 1998
- 33 Rue des Vignoles, CNT Offices. Sometime the following Week
- Madrid, Legazpi Metro Station. November 11th of 2007
- Epilogue: Paris, May 9th of 2006
6. Gare de Lyon Train Station. Tuesday, May 5th, 1998. The 21:03 to Marseille
- The 21:03 to Marseille
- “ Too Much and Never Enough”
7. Friday, June 12th, 1998. Gare du Nord Train Station. Storming the Police Station
- Storming the Police Station
- Inside the Police Station
- La Java des Bons Enfants
- Epilogue: Third Division of the Judicial Police. Second Police Station of the Day
8. January 23rd of 1999. Nighttime. Some Ibis Hotel, Central Paris
- “ Release Our Comrades”
- January 23rd 1999. Noon. Charles de Gaulle Airport Ibis Hotel. “ This Hotel is a Detention Center. ”
- Epilogue: Strasbourg, April 4th of 2009
9 Every Airport and Train Station a Battlefield: At the Dawn of the Antiglobalization Movement
- Paris, week of March 21st, 1999: The “ Socialist” State Closes Its Borders
- March 27th of 1999, Paris. 5pm. Place des Invalides. Inside Air France
- The Rising Tide
- November 30th of 1999, Seattle, USA Ministerial Summit of the World Trade Organization
SECTION 2: 2001, FROM THE INAUGURATION TO THE SUMMER OF RESISTANCE
10. 2001, January. Washington DC: The Inauguration
11. “ We Have Nothing, Destroy Everything! Onward to Quebec City! ” The Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, April of 2001
- Remote Border Crossing, Eastern Maine. Sometime in April, 2001: “ Into the Great White North
- Just Because You’ re Paranoid…
- … Doesn’ t Mean They’ re Not After You: The Germinal Affair
- Friday, April 20th. Noon. Laval University “ What if nobody throws the first stone? What if it just doesn’ t kick off? ”
- Red, Yellow, Green: The Colors of Resistance
- Friday, April 20th, 2001. Approximately 3pm. Boulevard Rene Levesque: “ This Fence Can Stop a Vehicle Traveling 90 miles p/hour. ” But It Can’ t Stop our Movement.
- Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes, Benefit from Mutual Aid and Solidarity
- First Interlude: Friday, April 20th, 2001. Seattle, Washington. USA. Sometime Late Evening
- Saturday, April 21st, approximately 4pm: The Anarchists Are Coming: Into St. Jean Baptiste
- Second Interlude: Saturday, April 21st, 2001. Sometime in the Early Evening: “ Wild West Showdown in the Great White North”
- Saturday, April 21st, Late Afternoon. Offices of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce: The Wrong Three Way Fight: The Black Bloc vs The Pacifists vs The Locals
- Saturday, April 21st. Approximately 6pm. Somewhere in St. Jean-Baptiste: An Exercise in Anarchist Self-Discipline and a Punitive Expedition
- Saturday, April 21st. Evening into Night. Cote d’ Abraham Overpass: Reaping What We Sowed
- Epilogue: “ Uproar is our only music. ”
