Welcome to the Rebellion: A New Hope in Radical Politics (2020)
Out now! Published June/July 2020 by Zero Books - get your copy now at:
US: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, BookBub
UK: Amazon.co.uk, Zero Books, Waterstones, Foyles, Blackwells, Hive
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The e-book version is available at:
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UK: Amazon.co.uk, Blackwells
Welcome to the Rebellion now also available as an audiobook, narrated by Rafe Beckley:
A FREE preview of the introduction to the book is available on Amazon, or you can read the prologue here.
How Star Wars can help today’s young rebels bring down empire, defeat the dark side, and save the future - Welcome to the Rebellion explores the radical political roots of Star Wars and shows how the saga continues to inspire a new generation of activists and campaigners today.
What does it mean that our most popular modern myth is a radical left story about fighting corporate authoritarianism? From its roots in the 1960s new left, Star Wars still speaks to millions of people today. By design, the saga mirrors our own time and politics. A real empire of corporate domination has arisen within weakened and corrupted republics. Now it threatens our existence on a planetary scale.
But, the popularity of Star Wars also suggests that if we tell the right stories, we can welcome many more people to fight for a better world...
There’s also a slideshow summary of the book here, and you can read a series of blog posts based on the main arguments in the book starting here.
“For all of us who love Star Wars, for all of us who love humanity and our planet, for all of us who yearn to be part of the Rebel Alliance, this book is for you. Harris has given us this incredible resource to study, so that we can learn the ways of the Force, understand the very real and violent Empire of structural inequality and systems of supremacy we are up against today, and learn about the values and commitments of the also very real Rebel Alliance. Get this book, full of brilliant lessons and insights, study it, share it with others, and let it help us be the Rebels and Jedis for collective liberation that the world so desperately needs.”
- Chris Crass, author of Towards Collective Liberation and Towards the “Other America,” social justice educator and member of the Rebel Alliance