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The Wind Cries Freedom, a new book from Michael Albert.

“Read it, argue with it, but don’t look away. The future it recalls is one we must still fight to deserve.”
– Yanis Varoufakis

“The most unusual and intriguing combination of prophecy, manifesto, and movement building manual that I have ever encountered.”
– Bill Fletcher Jr.

“This work fills a huge gap in our social movement literature.”
– Cynthia Peters

Jeremy Brecher’s newest report addresses the increased authoritarian threat under Trump and the MAGA movement.

Brecher asserts that we must look beyond conventional means and consider social strikes — large-scale, nonviolent withdrawal of cooperation, which has brought down authoritarian regimes around the world. 

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A longtime friend of Z. Music and storytelling rooted in liberation, solidarity, and resistance.
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The Wind Cries Freedom, a new book from Michael Albert.

“Read it, argue with it, but don’t look away. The future it recalls is one we must still fight to deserve.”
– Yanis Varoufakis

“The most unusual and intriguing combination of prophecy, manifesto, and movement building manual that I have ever encountered.”
– Bill Fletcher Jr.

“This work fills a huge gap in our social movement literature.”
– Cynthia Peters

Jeremy Brecher’s newest report addresses the increased authoritarian threat under Trump and the MAGA movement.

Brecher asserts that we must look beyond conventional means and consider social strikes — large-scale, nonviolent withdrawal of cooperation, which has brought down authoritarian regimes around the world. 

READ the report or WATCH the video series

A podcast that asks what do we want & how do we get it.

Latest: Liberating Theory: Economics & Class

All Episodes

31 authors & 6 orgs invite you to consider 20 Theses for Liberation, a living document to engage with in a collective process.

Join & share

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THE WIND CRIES FREEDOM

The Wind Cries Freedom, the new book from Z co-founder Michael Albert, is a sweeping oral history of a future American revolution.

Through thirty interconnected chapters, it draws out the strategies, failures, turning points, and hard-won wisdom of a movement that called itself the Revolutionary Participatory Society. These are not the polished memoirs of politicians: they are the unfiltered accounts of people who organized in neighborhoods, hospitals, universities, stadiums, courthouses, and places of worship, and kept a shared vision alive through cynicism and exhaustion.

The result is speculative political fiction that reads like history: messy, human, and quietly hopeful in the way that only real experience and long thought can produce.

Get your copy and peruse more features on the book’s website below.

“Read it, argue with it, but don’t look away. The future it recalls is one we must still fight to deserve.”

Yanis Varoufakis

“The most unusual and intriguing combination of prophecy, manifesto, and movement building manual that I have ever encountered.”

Bill Fletcher Junior

“This work fills a huge gap in our social movement literature.”

Cynthia Peters

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