Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto

by The People Want

Overview

“Hope, courage, and insurrection have crossed bodies, territories, and all borders.”—from Revolutions of Our Times

This urgent declaration advances an internationalism from below, focused on people and movements rather than states, as agents of our collective liberation. Revolutions of Our Times draws on the experience of uprisings taking place across the globe over the past two decades and sets out a vision for revolutionary internationalism.

From continent to continent, from our exile, in our travels and in our struggles, we have found each other. In the clash of street battles, gestures seen and then replicated in different countries, words echoed across languages, we have recognized each other.  We belong to a single transnational struggle—and we stand against an internationally organized elite. We know that if we remain isolated, we will achieve nothing.

The bitterness of our defeats, and our refusal to accept them as final, has engendered the desire to get to know each other. We have begun to weave a network of planetary connections from frontlines to popular assemblies, from feminist strikes to resistance committees, from occupied roundabouts to occupied forests, and have discovered a common sensibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798888906118
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	04/14/2026
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	106

About the Author

The Peoples Want is a network of collectives, organizations, and individuals from across the world working together to build a new internationalism that promotes solidarity and mutual aid among those in struggle.

Table of Contents

Prologue
How this manifesto came to be through a series of transnational gatherings attended by internationalists from around the globe.
Recognizing Ourselves
From continent to continent, from our exile, in our travels and in our struggles, we have found each other.
Birth of Our Power
The uprisings of our time have shown that there is no singular global revolutionary subject, but many, and the revolts have been led, above all, by those on the margins.
Finding the Emergency Break
The beginning of this decade underlines a simple but painful truth: as revolution progresses, so counter-revolution grows harsher.
Turning Exile into a Position of Attack
Every attempt at revolution, every insurrection, leaves in its wake a new generation of exiled revolutionaries
Internationalism from Below
Seeing Western countries as the only imperialist powers, and the United States as the source of all evil, a characteristic bias of “campist” positions, leads many on the left to excuse the crimes of the Syrian, Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and other regimes.
The Fall of Empire
How can we avoid abandoning the idea of power to the people? How can we combat the sham of liberal democracies without playing into the hands of authoritarian regimes?
Revolution?
No single event can put an end to all forms of domination; we must view revolution instead as a process.
Starting Over
We stand at a crossroads where aspirations for change confront realities of a collapsing world. We need to find a revolutionary horizon, not just in order to survive, but to live a life worth living.