John Holloway Speaking at Left Forum 2012

John Holloway is a Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico, his home since 1991. His work is associated with the Zapatista movement, and has also been taken up by some intellectuals associated with the piqueteros in Argentina; Abahlali base Mjondolo movement in South Africa and the Anti-Globalization and Occupy Movements in Europe and North America. His publications include Crack Capitalism (Pluto, 2010), Change the World Without Taking Power (Pluto, 2005), Zapatista!: Rethinking Revolution in Mexico (co-editor with Eloína Peláez, Pluto, 1998) and Global Capital, National State and The Politics of Money (co-editor with Werner Bonefeld, 1994).

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