Upping The Anti

a journal of theory and action

Our name Upping the Anti refers to our interest in engaging with three interwoven tendencies which have come to define much of the politics of today’s radical left in Canada: anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism. These three political tendencies, while overlapping and incorporating various contradictory elements, together represent the growth of a radical politics in a space outside of the “party building” of the sectarian left and the dead end of social democracy. Despite their limitations, movements based on these “anti” politics have grown out of a real process and practice of social contestation and mobilization, and they point towards ideas and activist practices which will have a significant role in shaping the form and content of new revolutionary movements born out of future cycles of struggle against exploitation and oppression. This journal is intended to provide a space to address and discuss unresolved questions and dynamics within these struggles in order to better learn from our collective successes and failures.

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Upping The Anti #9

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Letters to the Editor
Editorial

Interviews

Eli Clare: Resisting Easy Answers - Intersectional Politics and Multi-Issue Organizing
Sherene Razack: Think Before You Act

Articles

Ben Saifer Shalom-Salaam?: Campus Israel advocacy and the politics of “dialogue”
Kate Milley “Where is John Wayne when you need him?”: Anti-Native Organizing and the “Caledonia Crisis”
Chris Hurl & Kevin Walby: We are the Student Movement?: The Rise and Fall of the CUS

Roundtables

Out of the Shadows: Ten Year Reflections on Seattle
Going for Gold on Stolen Land: Anti-Olympic Organizing

Book Reviews

Sean Benjamin: Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
Jeff Shantz: The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History, Volume 1: Projectiles for the People

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Upping The Anti #7

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The October 2008 edition of this radical journal of theory and action from Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents of Upping the Anti #7

Editorial
The Moment of Danger: Catastrophe and Actualization

Interviews
Clayton Thomas-Müller - Just Environmentalism?
Kara Gillies - Sex Work and the State
Chris Harris - Building to Building, Hood to Hood

Articles
Nava EtShalom & Matthew N. Lyons - “Bring on the bulldozers and let’s plant trees”: The Story of Labour Zionism
Tom Keefer - Declaring the Exception: Direct Action, Six Nations, and the Stuggle in Brantford
Kole Kilibarda - Confronting Apartheid: The BDS Movement in Canada

Roundtables
Clare O’Connor & Caitlin Hewitt-White - Labour Solidarity For Palestine: Unions and the BDS Movement with Dave Bleakney, Iliam Burbano, Andy Griggs, and Jenny Peto
Kimiko Inouye Home and a Hard Place: A Roundtable on Migrant Labour with Evelyn Calugay, Tess Tesalona, Adriana Paz, Alywin Lo, and Chris Ramsaroop

Book Reviews
Neil Balan on Slavoj �i�ek's "In Defense of Lost Causes"
Alejandro de Acosta on Simon Critchley's "Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Poltics of Resistance"
Jen Angel on Stephen Duncombe's "Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy"
Bryan Doherty on John Hagedorn's "A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture"

Product Details
207 pages
ISSN 1718-0872
October 2008

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Upping The Anti #6

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The May 2008 edition of this radical journal of theory and action from Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents of Upping the Anti #6

Editorial
In Praise of Good Maps: Theory, History and the Signs of the Times

Interviews
Mutulu Olugbala: It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: The Opposite of Truth is Forgetting
George Katsiaficas: Remembering May 1968

Articles
Joshua Kahn Russell & Brian Kelly: Giving Form to a Stampede: The First Two Years of the New SDS
Eric Newstadt: Accounting for the Student Movement
Caelie Frampton: Response to Newstadt
Jeff Monagham & Kevin Walby: The Green Scare is Everywhere

Roundtables
Kriss Sol: Organizing Against the G8 with Hanne Jobst, Sabu and Go, Miranda and Jaggi Singh.
Alex Khasnabish: Anti-Poverty Organizing in Halifax with Jill Ratcliffe, Capp Larsen, Angela Weal, Susan Lefort, Cole Webber, and James Babbitt.

Book Reviews
David Calnitsky: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Alexis Shotwell: Color of Violence: the INCITE! Anthology.
Chris Keefer: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. INCITE! (ed.).
Scott Neigh Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Canada’s Economic Apartheid.

Product Details
296 pages
ISSN 1718-0872
May 2008

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