Fire And Flames: A History Of The German Autonomist Movement

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The first comprehensive study of the German autonomous movement ever published. Released in 1990, it reached its fifth edition by 1997, with the legendary German journal Konkret concluding that 'the movement had produced its own classic.' The author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the scene in 1980-81. He here traces its origins in the Italian Autonomia project and the German social movements of the 1970s, before describing the battles for squats, 'free spaces' and alternative forms of living.

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"The target audience is not the academic middle-class with passive sympathies for rioting, nor the all-knowing critical critics, but the activists of a young generation."
--Edition I.D. Archiv

"Some years ago, an experienced autonomous activist from Berlin sat down, talked to friends and comrades about the development of the scene, and, with Fire and Flames, wrote the best book about the movement that we have."
--Dsseldorfer Stadtzeitung fr Politik und Kultur

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Geronimo is the pen name of an activist for the German autonomous movement. George Katsiaficas is a visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University and a Fullbright Fellow. He is the author of The Imagination of the New Left and The Subversion of Politics. Gabriel Kuhn is a translator and the author of Life Under the Jolly Roger.