They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us

Peter Gelderloos is a writer and social movement participant. He is the author of The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below, How Nonviolence Protects the State, Anarchy Works, The Failure of Non-Violence, and Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation. He has contributed chapters to anthologies Keywords for Radicals and Riots and Militant Occupations. His books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Greek and Serbo-Croat.

• Introduction: Memory, Disembodied1. They Will Beat the Memory Out of UsThe Tipping PointStatuesSparks2. They Will Promise a Future They Can Never DeliverThe SnareRegenerationThe Reset3. But We are Here, Surviving, Remembering, Passing On the TorchAccompaniment or Loss?Learning From Our AncestorsConclusion: Surviving Together

'Maintaining and sharing revolutionary love, we strengthen intergenerational memories of creative resistance. Despite the beatings and burnings meted out by states, schools, corporations, police, prisons and militaries, our communities continue to weave overlapping concentric circles of care and resistance. This striking book reveals collective memories of freedom struggles, despite attempts to blur, distort or steal our inheritance.'