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Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come is a collective attempt to grapple with these questions. A collaboration between anarchist publishing collectives Occupied London and AK Press, this timely new volume traces Greece’s long moment of transition from the revolt of 2008 to the economic crisis that followed. In its twenty chapters, authors from around the world—including those on the ground in Greece—analyse how December became possible, exploring its legacies and the position of the social antagonist movement in face of the economic crisis and the arrival of the International Monetary Fund.

In the essays collected here, over two dozen writers offer historical analysis of the factors that gave birth to December and the potentialities it has opened up in face of the capitalist crisis. Yet the book also highlights the dilemmas the antagonist movement has been faced with since: the book is an open question and a call to the global antagonist movement, and its allies around the world, to radically rethink and redefine our tactics in a rapidly changing landscape where crises and potentialities are engaged in a fierce battle with an uncertain outcome.

Contributors include Vaso Makrygianni, Haris Tsavdaroglou, Christos Filippidis, Christos Giovanopoulos, TPTG, Metropolitan Sirens, Yannis Kallianos, Hara Kouki, Kirilov, Some of Us, Soula M., Christos Lynteris, Yiannis Kaplanis, David Graeber, Christos Boukalas, Alex Trocchi, Antonis Vradis, Dimitris Dalakoglou and the Occupied London Collective. Art and design by Leandros, Klara Jaya Brekke and Tim Simons. Edited by Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou of Occupied London.

www.revoltcrisis.org/speaking-tour-n-america-april-2011/

Occupied London presents: Revolt & Crisis in Greece
Reflections on the December Insurrection, the Economic Crisis, and Ongoing Struggles in Greece and beyond…
A multimedia presentation and discussion

Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. Since the Greek Insurrection of December 2008 the OL blog has been an important source of English language updates from the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities across the country.

This event is part of a US tour celebrating the release of Occupied London’s latest project: a book titled ‘Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future Still to Come: Revolt and Crisis in Greece‘, published by AK Press.

Taking some of the themes emerging from the book’s twenty chapters as a starting point, they will be discussing trajectories of struggle and resistance in recent years, the current economic reality in Greece defined by austerity, ways in which people are affected on an everyday level, and emergent potentialities for struggle.

Dimitris and Antonis are researchers and writers studying Greece and share their time between there and the UK. Dimitris works on the materialities of social change in the Balkans and Greece; Antonis researches the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia and its concentration of riots in Greece’s post-dictatorial period.

• April 4, 2011 – New York, NY, 6 Charles Pl. Brooklyn, 7.30 pm
• April 5, 2011 – Baltimore, MD, The 2640 Space, 7 pm
• April 6, 2011 – New York, NY, The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY, 4 pm
• April 6, 2011 – Philadelphia, PA, LAVA, 7 pm
• April 7, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, Station 40, 7 pm
• April 9, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, Bay Area Anarchist bookfair, 4pm
• April 10, 2011 – Berkeley, CA, BASTARD Conference
• April 12, 2011 – Modesto, CA, Firehouse Social Center, 7 pm
• April 15, 2011 – Olympia, WA, Sabot Infosquat, Evergreen State College
• April 16, 2011 – Portland, OR, Law and Disorder Conference
• April 18, 2011 – Seattle, WA, Autonomia Social Center, 7 pm
• April 20, 2011 – Vancouver, BC, Joe’s Café, 1150 Commercial Drive, 8pm

…if you live in the US or Canada: www.akpress.org/2011/items/revoltandcrisisingreece