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Throughout the 19th century, revolutionary movements united intellectuals, artists, dissidents, and significant segments of the population in joint crusades in the name of justice or liberation against empires and aristocratic elites, often across class, religious, race and national lines. Duty to Revolt takes the Greek Revolution as a foundational historical departure point to investigate historical continuities and discontinuities in transnational and commemorative aspects of revolutionary wars. This edited collection provides an innovative and comprehensive contribution to the study of historical revolutions and their commemoration, as well as contemporary protests and uprisings, and how they are communicated today in everyday networked media. Duty to Revolt is the first work of its kind to take an interdisciplinary approach across historical time on this subject and bringing together leading and emerging scholars in several fields, merging history and political science with digital media and communication studies.

A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopherIs violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies'worthy of defending'and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenseless. In 1685, for example, France's infamous'Code Noir'forbade slaves from carrying weapons, under penalty of the whip. In nineteenth-century Algeria, the colonial state outlawed the use of arms by Algerians, but granted French settlers the right to bear arms. Today, some lives are seen to be worth so little that Black teenagers can be shot in the back for appearing'threatening'while their killers are understood, by the state, to be justified. That those subject to the most violence have been forcibly made defenseless raises, for any movement of liberation, the question of using violence in the interest of self-defense.Here, philosopher Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left - from slave revolts to the knitting women of the French Revolution and British suffragists'training in ju-jitsu, from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to the Black Panther Party, from queer neighborhood patrols to Black Lives Matter, to trace the politics, philosophy, and ethics of self defense. In this history she finds a'martial ethics of the self': a practice in which violent self defense is the only means for the oppressed to ensure survival and to build a liveable future. In this sparkling and provocative book, drawing on theorists from Thomas Hobbes to Fred Hampton, Frantz Fanon to Judith Butler, Michel Foucault to June Jordan, Dorlin has reworked the very idea of modern governance and political subjectivity.Translated from the French by Kieran Aarons.

A guide to direct action for those disillusioned with the posturing of liberal “activism.”The radical left is losing, but it doesn't have to be that way. Here is the radical's guide to activist work—the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize for universal human rights, a habitable earth, and a more egalitarian society. Thoroughly exploring the achievements and failures of radical movements throughout history—from 19th-century anti-colonial rebellions in China and the environmental actions of First Nations and Native American tribes throughout the 20th century, to Black Lives Matter and the fight for Gay Liberation—the two volumes of Full Spectrum Resistance candidly advocate for direct action, not just risk-averse models of protest marches and call-ins. With in-depth histories and case studies of social justice and environmental movements, noted writer, activist, and farmer Aric McBay explains why passive resistance alone cannot work, and how we must be prepared to do whatever it takes to create substantial social change. In Volume 2: Actions and Strategies for Change, McBay uses the successful strategies of various actions, such as the Greek Resisters of the 2008 Greek Television Takeover, to articulate the best practices for inter-activist coordination and communication with mass media to effectively spread message. Covering reconnaissance methods and other forms of intelligence-gathering, Volume 2 guides the reader in smart decision-making and damage control, such as how to recover from both covert and overt adversarial attacks, such as COINTELPRO (1971). Moreover, this manual clearly articulates the best strategies and practices for the financial, logistical, and tactical organization necessary to all successful radical movements in the long term.

A guide to direct action for those disillusioned with the posturing of liberal “activism.”The radical left is losing, but it doesn't have to be that way. Here is the radical's guide to activist work—the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize for universal human rights, a habitable earth, and a more egalitarian society. Thoroughly exploring the achievements and failures of radical movements throughout history—from 19th-century anti-colonial rebellions in China and the environmental actions of First Nations and Native American tribes throughout the 20th century, to Black Lives Matter and the fight for Gay Liberation—the two volumes of Full Spectrum Resistance candidly advocate for direct action, not just risk-averse models of protest marches and call-ins. With in-depth histories and case studies of social justice and environmental movements, noted writer, activist, and farmer Aric McBay explains why passive resistance alone cannot work, and how we must be prepared to do whatever it takes to create substantial social change. In Volume 1: Building Movements and Fighting to Win, McBay describes the need for resistance movements, and paints a portrait of what a thriving resistance movement might look like today. Citing successful movements such as the Deacons of Defense of the American Civil Rights Movement, the anti-colonial revolutions in Guinea and Cape Verde, and activist groups like Act-UP, McBay deftly illustrates how to organize activist groups and encourage enlistment, while also noting the necessary precautions one must take to secure these radical circles from infiltration and collapse.

Dans ce premier volume consacré aux rapports entre la conscience humaine et la violence de l'Etat, Pierre Lamblé étudie particulièrement quelques mythes de fondation de cité ainsi que les plus grands textes de la littérature grecque, de Sophocle à Platon, pour décortiquer la complexité des rapports conflictuels entre les exigences de la conscience individuelle et la toute-puissance d'un pouvoir arbitraire qui refuse par principe toute contraction.

Dans ce quatrième et dernier volume de Conscience humaine et violence de l'État, Pierre Lamblé s'intéresse tout particulièrement à trois œuvres fondamentales traitant de la naissance et du développement de l'idéologie nazie à l'intérieur de consciences occidentales : Sa Majesté des mouches, écrit par William Golding ; Rhinocéros, de Ionesco ; et Si c'est un homme, de Primo Levi.

Dans ce deuxième volume de Conscience humaine et violence de l'État, Pierre Lamblé s'attache tout particulièrement à l'étude de la pensée et de l'action politiques de Jules César, et de son influence sur l'Europe de la Renaissance au XVIIIe siècle, en montrant comment la pensée de Machiavel a nourri toute la réflexion politique des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, de Corneille à Voltaire et Leibnitz, en passant par Shakespeare.

Dans ce troisième volume de Conscience humaine et violence de l'État, Pierre Lamblé étudie le développement du conflit entre les exigences de la liberté individuelle et la structure de plus en plus oppressive de l'appareil d'État, de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à l'aube du XXe, à travers Le Contrat social de Rousseau, la philosophie de l'histoire de Hegel, Lorenzaccio de Musset, Résurrection de Tolstoï et Le Procès de Kafka.

Enquêter sur le droit de résistance, du Moyen âge à nos jours, en croisant les approches de l'histoire, de la philosophie, du droit et de l'histoire littéraire : tel est le point de départ de ce livre.