Tomas Rothaus

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Author @ PM Press. *Another War is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era* *Argentina, A Tale of Two Utopias: Anarchism - Soccer - Neoliberalism*

"Uno di noi. Forse non un attivista o un militante, non un quadro di alcuna organizzazione o struttura, ma uno di noi perché hai scelto di combattere. Di combattere al nostro fianco, fianco a fianco. Uno di noi — ed è per questo che ti hanno sparato...

Una lettera a Carlo Giuliani

Durante il Il 20 luglio 2001, durante il vertice del G8 a Genova, un carabiniere uccise un manifestante di 23 anni, Carlo Giuliani. Carlo avrebbe potuto essere ognuno di noi.

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So much that's objectively wrong in this article I'd have to write another book to address half of it. But we can start with noting that rooting for the national team of Spain because of the other team's real or perceived issues is like cheering for the Confederacy because we're angry about Trump.

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Why many Black Americans were rooting for Argentina to lose the World Cup "for many Black Americans, this final wasn’t really about rooting for Spain. It was about rooting against Argentina." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"I’ll forever be holding high your memory and trying to avenge your death, because the blood of our comrades does not come cheap. And while I still can’t find the optimism to believe in a conveniently beautiful afterlife, I can’t help but hope that you’ve smiled down approvingly upon our efforts."

PM Press@pmpress.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Genoa. Read the full article here: blog.pmpress.org/2026/07/20/a...

What happened to the cop who murdered Carlo Giuliani? These are his words about his life today. Even if you are prepared to murder for the ruling class, they will use you to protect their privileges, then throw you away. They're using you to kill because they don't value life—yours or anyone's.

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https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2021-07-19/g8-genova-mario-placanica-sprai-carlo-giuliani-prigione-infinita-13316957/

...reading:

"I live thrown away like an abandoned thing"

"I've been dead since that day, like Giuliani. I'm a 40-year-old man living a wasted life, like something abandoned. Without friends, I search for them on Facebook but I can't find their names anymore. Without a job. Without opportunities."

Reached by phone by AGI at his home in Catanzaro, Placanica apologizes for his hoarse voice, which, when he talks about his current condition, turns to tears: "I smoked all night because I couldn't sleep. These are even more difficult days."
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com · 2w ago

A Letter to Carlo Giuliani crimethinc.com/CarloGiuliani 25 years ago, on July 20, 2001, during the G8 summit in Genoa, a police officer shot and killed a 23-year-old demonstrator named Carlo Giuliani. Here, a fellow participant in the battle of Genoa addresses Carlo from across the years.

New in our shop: From Riot to Insurrection: The G8 Summit of 2001 & The Battle of Genoa – Tomas Rothaus

From Riot to Insurrection: The G8 Summit of 2001 & The Battle of Genoa – Tomas Rothaus

Vendor: PM Type: book Price: 23.95 Available now in the US. Orders outside the US are preorders, to be fulfilled August-September 2026. “…but in the end, we will win.” In 1992, following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the ruling class declared the end of history and the triumph of capitalism. Less than two years later, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas galvanized a worldwide movement against capitalist globalization. All around the world, history began to crack and move again, like a frozen river thawing in the spring. This momentum culminated in July 2001 with the protests against the G8 summit, in what became known as the battle of Genoa. For days, tens of thousands of aspiring revolutionaries clashed with an army of police in a city on fire. From Riot to Insurrection offers a vivid account of this pivotal moment. In electrifying prose, Tomas Rothaus escorts the reader through those explosive days, recounting the chaotic street battles, the exhilarating sense of possibility, the heart-wrenching moments of triumph and loss. This is an ode to audacity, to what we become capable of when we believe in our collective power. The real lesson of the end of the Cold War is not that capitalism is inevitable; it is that empires always fall. While “socialism without freedom” had crumbled by 1992, “freedom without socialism” has yet to expire. That revolution remains possible—even today—provided that we fight for it the way people did in Genoa. Praise “Tomas Rothaus’s writing is able to thread the ever-thin-needle between lived history, the rush of revolutionary moments, incisive analysis, and humor in his writings on Genoa. I cannot recommend his work highly enough to anyone who wants to understand both radical anarchist politics and the lessons that the antiglobalization movement of the 1990s and early 2000s has to offer us.” —Charlie Allison, author of No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno “In the past half century, there was one tiny window when a global anticapitalist movement was on the offensive: the short years of the so-called antiglobalization movement at the turn of the millennium. That window was shut with the crackdown on the G8-summit protests in Genoa, Italy, in July 2001. The state raised the stakes and the movement could not answer. No serious analysis of the potentials and pitfalls of revolutionary anticapitalist politics can do without revisiting this crucial moment in history, and no one is more suited for the task than Tomas Rothaus, the rising star of contemporary revolutionary historiography. An eyewitness to the events, he takes us back with an unfailing sense for the essentials, rolled into a narrative that is both enlightening and hugely entertaining. If books decided the revolution, this one would carry us over the finish line with ease.” —Gabriel Kuhn, author of From Hash Rebels to Urban Guerrillas: A Documentary History of the 2nd of June Movement and X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety “From Riot to Insurrection: The G8 Summit of 2001 & The Battle of Genoa is a searing chronicle of one of the most electrifying confrontations in the modern struggle against capitalism. With gripping detail and unflinching insight, Tomas Rothaus brings the Genoa commune to life, where tens of thousands dared to defy the world’s most notorious class war criminals—and paid the price. More than just a history of a pivotal protest, this is a passionate meditation on rebellion, memory, and the enduring possibility of revolution. Rothaus reminds us that the fall of empires is not just inevitable; it is written in the courage of those who resist.” —Andrej Grubačić, professor of Anthropology and Social Change at CIIS, San Francisco About the Contributors Tomas Rothaus is a lifelong anarchist and antifascist as well as an athlete and a father. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his nomadic life led to him moving around with stops in Athens, Boston, Buenos Aires, and Paris, followed by longer stints in Germany, and more recently returning to Argentina. He has been involved with a broad range of organizations including the CNT-Vignoles, Collectif Anti Expulsions (Anti Deportation Collective), Barricada Collective, Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists, Antifaschistische Linke International, and Acción Antifascista Buenos Aires. Over the past twenty plus years he has been an active participant in militant demonstrations and antifascist mobilizations ranging from the 2001 Bush inauguration, the FTAA summit in Quebec, the 2007 G8 summit in Rostock, and the 2011 mobilization to stop the march of several thousand neo-Nazis in the city of Dresden. PM Press published his first two books, Another War Is Possible and Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias. Mark Bray is a historian of Modern Europe at Rutgers University and the author of Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook and The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France and the coeditor of Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader. Details Author: Tomas Rothaus • Foreword by Mark Bray Series: PM Press ISBN: 9798887441726 Published: 07/07/2026 Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9 Pages: 264

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I wrote this on this day a few years ago, in the hopes that we can continue to carry the names of those killed because they were "one of us." "One of us. All of us, regardless of our more specific motivations, were there on that day because we saw this world as broken and refused to stand idly.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com · 2w ago

A Letter to Carlo Giuliani crimethinc.com/CarloGiuliani 25 years ago, on July 20, 2001, during the G8 summit in Genoa, a police officer shot and killed a 23-year-old demonstrator named Carlo Giuliani. Here, a fellow participant in the battle of Genoa addresses Carlo from across the years.

🧵 on Multiple Attackers: Facing multiple attackers is one of the most scary and dangerous scenarios you can be in. While nothing can turn you into the one-person wrecking crew seen in movies, there are some preparations and tactics that will give you a fighting chance

Street fight with multiple people

"I CANT EXPLAIN, YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND." Luckily I wrote a book about this, there's literally a chapter called "I cant explain, you wouldn't understand" about Messi, Maradona (as well as neo-liberalism, dictatorship, & anarchism) & the importance of football/World Cup on the Argentine psyche.

Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias: Anarchism, Soccer, Neoliberalism

Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias takes us through the outsized and unexpected remnants of the influence of anarchist ideas and practice on modern-day Argentina—from the names of popular pastries to th...

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listen I know v little about football & its attendant lores all I know is that the sight of men dressed up as knights templar looking v sad brings me joy at an ancestral level

Coming up next: Why tomorrow's match against England is the most important in the history of football; why if we win it will mark the confirmation that we are witnessing the greatest dynasty in the history of the sport.

"Argentina is a uniquely racist country" is apparently the discourse of the moment, despite the other 3 remaining World Cup participants being responsible for colonizing essentially the entire world. Racist? Yes, as any nation-state constructed via European conquest & indigenous genocide.

We take no heroes, only inspiration. Maradona inspired us to believe that we too can rise against the powerful, defy all odds, & embark on epic adventures in the pursuit of liberation. These are far fetched conclusions & political metaphors, drawn out of something as inconsequential as a game.

Maradona jumps in the air in front of England goalkeeper, with his fist above his head.

Messi let himself be instrumentalized by Trump; Dibu Martinez profits off of his idol status in Argentina by selling sports gambling addiction to kids; and Harry Kane goes golfing with Donald Trump. I don't care about the millionaires who wear the jersey.

Diego Maradona celebrates a goal, while English fans in the stands behind him gesture and insult him.

Northern District of Texas U.S. Attorneys claimed “Ines Soto, was the cell head of ANTIFA DFW, which operated under the front: ‘Emma Goldman Book Club’.” Govt exhibit 163 featured 100s of images from the book club’s activities, including making & distributing radical literature & plant seeds.

composition of zine activities, emma goldman book club

Today is publication day for "From Riot to Insurrection," about the Genoa G8 summit, anti-globalization, & so forth. So of course I'm out here talking abt another book abt futbol & Argentina because Im overexcited that the millionaire wearing the right colored jersey pushed the ball over the line.

Posting this excerpt from "Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias: Anarchism, Soccer, Neoliberalism" today for no reason. Nothing to do with Messi & co. coming back from the brink, showing that we (yes, "we") are the eternal champions of football & everybody else is just guests at our victory parade.

Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias: Anarchism, Soccer, Neoliberalism

Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias takes us through the outsized and unexpected remnants of the influence of anarchist ideas and practice on modern-day Argentina—from the names of popular pastries to th...

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RELEASED TODAY! "More than just a history of a pivotal protest, this is a passionate meditation on rebellion, memory, and the enduring possibility of revolution. Rothaus reminds us that the fall of empires is not just inevitable; it is written in the courage of those who resist.” -A. Grubacic

From Riot to Insurrection: The G8 Summit of 2001 & The Battle of Genoa

From Riot to Insurrection offers a vivid account of this pivotal moment. In electrifying prose, Tomas Rothaus escorts the reader through those explosive days, recounting the chaotic street battles, th...

pmpress.org

Just finished this book. I knew nothing about the Sami or Nils, who fled to "Canada," following the botched bombing of a bridge being built on Sami land, & was taken in by First Nations. Accessible, engaging & covers issues of loss, sacrifice, exile, & transnational solidarity in a short text.

In the Hour of the Wolf: Tales of a Sámi Warrior

Niillas Somby A tale of struggle and survival, of solidarity and kinship, of steadfast principles and spiritual awakening.

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I know times have changed /challenges comrades face/ the difficult terrain on which today's antifas operate. Acutely aware of it all. Still I can't get past the old ARA mantra of "We go where they go" & feel like Patriot Front marching through cities is a collective failure of militant antifascism.