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The Chomsky Sessions: A five part series of video interviews with Noam Chomsky conducted by Michael Albert in 2010
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Participatory Vision & Strategy:

Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century, Chris Spannos

No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World, Michael Albert

Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society, Michael Albert

Democratic Economic Planning, Robin Hahnel

Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis, Robin Hahnel

Parecomic, Sean Michael Wilson & Carl Thompson

Liberating Theory, Michael Albert, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel, Mel King, Lydia Sargent, Holly Sklar

Women & Revolution, Edited by Lydia Sargent

Next American Revolution, Michael Albert

Vision & Strategy Essentials:

Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology

Workers Councils, Pannekoek

Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism, Bertrand Russell

Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future, Murray Bookchin

Anarcho-Syndicalism, Rudolf Rocker

Workers’ Councils: And The Economics of Self-Managed Society, Cornelius Castoriadis

For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton

On Anarchism, Noam Chomsky

Government in the Future, Noam Chomsky

As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence, The Care Collective

Fundamentals

Radical Participatory Theory

Art by Jessica Perlstein

Kinship

Art by Heather Collier
Art by Heather Collier

Community

Art by Behance
Art by Behance

Polity

Art by Beth Walrond

Economy

Art by Elise Vandeplancke
Image: RealUtopia.org
Image: RealUtopia.org

Getting Organized

Understanding Strategy

Art by Jessica Kamman

Getting Involved

Real Utopia is an international network of activists that can be described as a “think and do” tank. It is a laboratory for experimentation and a community of people committed to participatory organizing and advocacy.

RU welcomes anyone who wants to learn about and advance participatory theory, vision, & strategy, and aims to network and support organizers.

We invite you to consider the 20 Theses for Liberation, a living document to engage with in a participatory process, promoting unifying vision and strategy for building collective power. Become a signatory, share, and organize!

The Greek Internationalist Art & Research Centre for Post Capitalist Studies, Mέta, works to break with a dystopian present to imagine the world anew.

ParticipatoryEconomy.org provides information, resources, and a discussion forum on how a modern economy of millions of people can be organised around cooperation and solidarity instead of competition and greed. 

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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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