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The anti-capitalist transition

David Harvey (CUNY): Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition. A new issue of Turbulence is out, including an editorial: Life in limbo; and Massimo De Angelis (East London): The tragedy of the capitalist commons; what would it mean to lose? On the history of actually-existing failure; and people from across the global movement explain what they were wrong about back then (and more). From Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, an article on recent experiences in left regroupment and reconstruction; and a lesson from Seattle for Copenhagen: Vigorous activism can defeat the denialists. From YES!, Rebecca Solnit on the myth of activist violence during the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle; and Walden Bello on the meaning of the 1999 Seattle WTO protests (and more and more and more). From The Indypendent, from Seattle to Detroit: 10 lessons for movement building on the 10th anniversary of the WTO shutdown; and did the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization actually make a difference? A decade later, does No Logo still matter? Leftist icon Naomi Klein reflects on the book that launched her career and the pitfalls of being a political symbol. Samir Amin on how the current crisis is neither a financial crisis nor the sum of multiple systemic crises, but the crisis of the imperialist capitalism of oligopolies. From The American, Jeffrey Friedman on how understanding what caused the financial crisis is crucial to capitalism’s future — once we see what really happened, we find a conception of capitalism different than that entertained by either its conservative defenders or its liberal critics.