The background is 3/4 yellow with a stripe of blue down the right side. *Visual description of the cover: A large red thistle or teasel flower head and stem takes up nearly the entire cover, slanting to the right, with motion lines going outward from the flower. Includes full interviews of Silvia Federici and Kelsey Cham C. Interviewees include Silvia Federici, adrienne maree brown, Marina Sitrin, Gustavo Esteva, Tasnim Nathoo, Kelsey Cham Corbett, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Sebastian Touza, Walidah Imarisha, Margaret Killjoy, Glen Coulthard, Richard Day, Melanie Matining, Zainab Amadahy and Mik Turje. Joyful Militancy foregrounds forms of life in the cracks of Empire, revealing the ways that fierceness, tenderness, curiosity, and commitment can be intertwined. Fusing together movement-based perspectives and contemporary affect theory, they trace emergent forms of trust, care and responsibility in a wide variety of radical currents today, including indigenous resurgence, anarchism, transformative justice, and youth liberation. Rather than proposing ready-made solutions, they amplify the questions that are already being asked among movements. In conversation with organizers and intellectuals from a wide variety of currents, the authors explore how rigid radicalism smuggles itself into radical spaces, and how it is being undone. Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness and competition? The authors call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed and toxic ways of relating that have seeped into radical movements, posing as the ‘correct’ way of being radical. Foreword by Hari Alluri, published by AK Press, in collaboration with the IAS. Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.4 x 1.1 x 6.Joyful Militancy by carla bergmanand Nick Montgomery.Publisher ‏ : ‎ AK Press (December 5, 2017).

Interviewees include Silvia Federici, adrienne maree brown, Marina Sitrin, Gustavo Esteva, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Walidah Imarisha, Margaret Killjoy, Glen Coulthard, Richard Day, and more. In conversation with organizers and intellectuals from a wide variety of political currents, the authors explore how rigid radicalism smuggles itself into radical spaces, and how it is being undone Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and bergman call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed and toxic ways of relating that have seeped into social movements, posing as the “correct” way of being radical. Read it, live it!”-John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism A very well argued case for joyful militancy, and against the dead hand of puritanical revolution. 'Absolutely what we need in these days of spreading gloom.

Joyful militancy