Barbara Epstein's article “Why the US Left is Weak - and What to Do About It†offers lots of provocative points, both implicitly in the way that she tells history and explicitly through her recommendations. Although I disagree with some aspect...
In my view, Ezequiel Adamovsky’s essay “Autonomous Politics and its Problems†is an important contribution to discussions about left strategy and vision. In particular, I think Adamovsky raises some key questions for those of us engaged in a...
Chris Dixon, originally from Alaska, is a longtime anti-authoritarian organizer, writer, and educ... more
Chris Dixon, originally from Alaska, is a longtime anti-authoritarian organizer, writer, and educator, and recently received a PhD from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is currently completing a book, tentatively entititled Against and Beyond, based on interviews with radical organizers across the U.S. and Canada focusing on anti-authoritarian politics in broader-based movements. His previous writing has appeared in Clamor, the Earth First! Journal, Left Turn, Social Movement Studies, and Upping the Anti, and in Global Uprising (New Society Press, 2001), Letters from Young Activists (Nation Books, 2005), Toward A New Socialism (Lexington Books, 2007), and Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power (Routledge, 2008). He serves on the advisory board for the activist journal Upping the Anti, and lives in Sudbury, Ontario, Atikameksheng Anishnawbek Territory, where he organizes with Sudbury Against War and Occupation.
