Chapter One: Primitive Accumulation: Enclosures, Colonial Conquest, and Enslavement
The Barbarism of Modern Western Civilization
Violent Evictions by the Rising Bourgeoisie in Europe
Witch Hunts Control Women’s Bodies and Knowledge
Incomplete Conquest and Genocide on Hispaniola
The Dispossessed Who Defied Control
Primitive Accumulation is the Template for Settler Colonialism
Chapter Two: Indigenous resistance on Turtle Island: Histories of resilience and self-defense
The True Origins of Thanksgiving
What You Think You Know About ‘Indians’ Is Probably Wrong
Ongoing Attempts to Control Turtle Island
Indigenous Resistance and Self-Defense After U.S. Independence
Surviving the Wars on Native Americans
Chapter Three: Slavery and Anti-Slavery
The Haitian Revolution and the Movement to End Slavery
‘King Cotton’ and the Planter Class
The Secret Marriage of the Slave Economy to Wall Street
Stages of the Movement to End Slavery in the United States
Four Lessons From the Movement to End Slavery
Chapter Four: Industrialization and the Rise of Unions
Bread and Water Wages and Clandestine Organizing Before Unions
The Rise of Monopoly Capitalism
The Royal Thieves of U.S. Empire
Workers’ Conditions and Industrial Struggles
Lessons From These Episodes of Industrial Struggles
Chapter Five: Boom and Bust and the New Deal
The Bonus Army’s Encampment and Eviction
The Rise of Finance Capitalists
A Crisis of Overproduction Leads to a Crash
The Unequal Impacts of the Great Depression
The Poor Demand Rights to Basic Needs
The New Deal Strengthens Finance Capital
The Significance of the New Deal
Chapter Six: Imperialism, Cold War and National Liberation Struggles
First World Monopoly Capitalist Imperialism
Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan and the Development Project
Communist Expansionism and Second World Strategies
Third World Strategies: National Liberation Movements
Possibilities for Third World Anti-Imperial Internationalism
Cold War Polarization and Contradictions
Chapter Seven: Empire and Cold War
‘You Are the Un-Americans’
Profits and Unequal Distribution in World War II and Beyond
The Red Scare and the Institutions of McCarthyism
Industrialization and Change in the South
Terror and Dissent Under Empire
Chapter Eight: The Black-led freedom struggle
What We’re Not Taught About Rosa Parks
The Great Migration, Jim Crow and Owning-Class Conflicts
The Black-Led Freedom Movement
Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides
The Grassroots Organizing Tradition in Mississippi
Marching on Washington and Organizing Back Home
The Watts Uprising and the End of an Economic Era
From Civil Rights to Human Rights
Chapter Nine: 'An old world is dying': Struggles of the Long 1960s
Black Panthers Assassinated by the State
Persistent Inequalities in a Changing National Landscape
Theories of Organizing in the Long 1960s
Peace, Love, Democracy and Ecology
Liberation Struggles of Women, Gays, Lesbians and People With Disabilities
Black, Brown and Indigenous Liberation
The Poor People’s Campaign
Elite and State Responses to Struggles for Rights
Chapter Ten: Global Production and Survival Struggles under Neoliberalism
Xenophobia in Times of Globalization
From National to Global Production
Deindustrialization and Neoliberalism in the United States
Challenges to Globalization and Neoliberalism by the Dispossessed
Lessons From Organizing by the Dispossessed Under Neoliberal Globalization
Chapter Eleven: The digital revolution and emerging survival struggles
Limits of Just-in-Time Production and Global Supply Chains
Protracted Wars and the Rise of Digital Capital
Structural Racism, Poverty, and Emerging Survival Struggles
The ‘Middle Class’ is Not a Class
Fusion Politics in the Fight to Transform Society
Making Our Way in a Hot World Without Jobs