The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee

To Our Friends is an expansion of The Invisible Committee's earlier manifesto, The Coming Insurrection. Its political ambition is immodest: to produce a shared understanding of the epoch, in spite of the extreme confusion of the present.

To Our Friends is a report on the state of the world and of the movement, a piece of writing that's essentially strategic and openly partisan. Its words issue from the turmoil and are addressed to those who still believe sufficiently in life to fight as a consequence. Thus To Our Friends is written at the experiential level, in connection with that general movement. Who would have bet a kopeck, seven years ago, on the overthrow of Ben Ali or Mubarak through street action, on the revolt of young people in Quebec, on the political awakening of Brazil, on the fires set French-style in the English or Swedish banlieues, on the creation of an insurrectionary commune in the very heart of Istanbul, on a movement of plaza occupations in the United States, or on the rebellion that spread throughout Greece in December of 2008?ĭuring the seven years that separate The Coming Insurrection from To Our Friends, the agents of the Invisible Committee have continued to fight, to organize, to transport themselves to the four corners of the world, to wherever the fires were lit, and to debate with comrades of every tendency and every country.

It must be acknowledged that a number of assertions by the Invisible Committee have since been confirmed, starting with the first and most essential: the sensational return of the insurrectionary phenomenon. In 2007 we published The Coming Insurrection in France. Seven years later, The Invisible Committee follows up their premonitory manifesto with a new book, To Our Friends. The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection was a phenomenon, celebrated in some quarters and inveighed against in others, publicized in media that ranged from campus bulletin boards to Fox News.

The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee