CHANGE OF VENUE: They Will Beat The Memory Out of Us

Please note the venue

During the CCA’s closure, we are partnering with
Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow
Map: 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow G11 6EW

Inclinations Book Club and Aye-Aye Books present

Peter Gelderloos discussing his latest book

THEY WILL BEAT THE MEMORY OUT OF US

Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements PLUTO Press

In the face of ecological crisis, police repression and white supremacy, there is an apparent lack of options for effective resistance. In his new book, Peter Gelderloos brings to life some of the conflictive and subversive events of the last couple of decades in a radical new criticism of nonviolence. The book weaves history, vignettes, interviews and personal reflections to show how our movements suffer from an inability to pass on lessons learned from one generation to the next.

Learning from the antiracist rebellions triggered by police murders from Minneapolis to Bristol, and the climate campaigns that often fail to centre an anticolonial consciousness, we can understand nonviolence as a symptom of social amnesia, an inability to remember our places in this world and what we have learned from past episodes of resistance. Cautioning against future waves of pacification and forgetting, this book urges us to collectivise memory and develop the methods we need to fight for our survival.

Come and meet Peter Gelderloos, who will be joining us online. We will be discussing the book and the questions it raises. Aye-Aye Books will be joining us with copies of the book, which you’ll be able to acquire for a donation. The event is free to attend and there is no need to book, but any donation will be gratefully received.

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.

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