Gathering Forces

I'm a force by myself but we're a movement when we're together

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Key Readings

This collection of key readings represents essays and perspectives that have been influential to the discussions and practices of the people involved in this project. Some of these links are highlighted on a rotating basis under Key Readings but below you’ll find a comprehensive list of all the links that have thus far been compiled. No single text has been our sole guiding light; rather, together they represent a constellation of ideas that we feel must be taken seriously, discussed and debated, and in new and creative ways integrated into thinking about the circumstances we find ourselves facing today.

Over time this collection will grow and we hope it will serve as a bibliography of resources for folks interested in the study of issues relevant to the focus of this blog.

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Organization

A. Muhammad Ahmad, The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: A Historical Study
Don Hamerquist, Thinking and Acting in Real Time and in a Real World
Marc Saint-Upéry, The Limits of Social Movements: An Untimely Reflection
Jo Freeman, The Tyranny of Struturelessness
SNCC, Women in the Movement
Errico Malatesta and Nestor Mahkno, A Project of Anarchist Organization
Paul Le Blanc, Lenin and the Challenge of Revolutionary Democracy

Race, Class and Gender

Marty Glaberman,“Be his payment high or low”: The American Working Class in the Sixties
Adolph Reed, Black Particularity Reconsidered
Loren Goldner, The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Sweatshop-Produced Rainbow Flags and Participatory Patriarchy: Why the Gay Rights Movement is a Sham
Selma James, Sex, Race and Class
Noel Ignatiev, The Backward Workers

Spanish/Español

Gustavo Gutiérrez, Hacia una Teología de la Liberación
Murray Bookchin, El Concepto de Ecología Social