First Measures of the Coming Insurrection

We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the people a matter of days to topple what were supposedly entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching away at a ''democratic consensus'' that has, since the 1970s, plagued and suppressed any sparks of revolutionary potential. It is time to prepare for the...