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The article discusses the need to rebuild in the U.S. necessary infrastructure to support anti-capitalist and alternative political movements. Although protests and demonstrations sometimes appear spontaneous, they are often the result of organization and planning that require resources. Useful actions for building infrastructure necessary to sustain resistance movements include organizing employees in the workplace, developing rapid-reaction teams that can respond swiftly in support of working-class communities, and the formation of working groups.

Over the last few years the dramatic actions of anarchists demonstrating during global economic summits and political party conventions have gathered much media attention. Unfortunately, beyond the largely sensationalistic media accounts, which depict anarchists as violent trouble-makers, very little is known about who anarchists are, what they think, or what their politics actually involve, leaving the activities of a major, and growing, contemporary movement obscured. Lost in sensationalist accounts are the constructive practices undertaken daily by anarchist activists seeking a world free from violence, oppression and exploitation. An examination of some of these constructive anarchist projects provides insights into real world attempts to develop peaceful and creative social relations in the here and now of everyday life. Despite the media portrayals, which associate anarchism and violence, contemporary anarchist initiatives have been primarily directed towards peaceful social change by building new communities and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the emergence of fundamentalist environmentalism in the mid-1980s. Fundamentalist versions of ecology, exemplified most notably by the theory of 'deep ecology' and the social movement Earth First!, have mistakenly proposed social scarcity as a means to overcome natural scarcity. This confusion has led fundamentalist ecologists away from an analysis of the power relations which underlie social inequality and the destruction of nature. Instead, fundamentalist ecologists offer neo-Malthusian and anti-worker perspectives that shift responsibility for ecological crises away from capitalist structures of inequality and towards personal consumption practices. Failure to understand the materiality of ecological destruction and its connection to social relations has made it difficult for radical ecology, to build alliances with other social movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland police. Earth First! members Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney and the explosion of a nail-filled bomb that nearly killed both of them; Arrest of the two by the FBI and Oakland police department and accusing them of blowing themselves up while preparing to carry out a terrorist attack; Propaganda campaign by the FBI that portrayed Earth First! as a terrorist organization; Civil lawsuit Bari and Cherney filed against the FBI; Verdict in favor of Bari and Cherney, which proved that the FBI framed Bari and Cherney in order to break Earth First!.

Investigates feminist materialism as political practice through a case study of timer workers' union by Judi Bari in Northern California. Effort of Bari in uniting workers and environmentalists for sustainable forestry practices; Emergence of a working-class feminist perspective to the radical ecology; Convergence of gender and radical environmentalism.

Discusses a Post-Sorelian theory of social movement unity, focusing on the works of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Arguments of social movement theorists; Foundation of classical Marxist theoretics according to Laclau; Sorelian replacement of the logic of necessity in Marxism.