What is Direct Action?

How to change the world. Longtime New Left activist and poet Mitchel Cohen, co-founder of the Red Balloon Collective at SUNY Stony Brook in 1969, the Brooklyn Greens, and a participant in Occupy Wall Street, offers unique and often humorous perspectives on radical movements since the 1960s while challenging the framework used by both anarchists and Marxists from within the Left.

Foreword by Prof. Richard Wolff.

Cover Art by Haideen Anderson.

Includes writings by Marina Sitrin, Isis Feral, Jay Moore, Arun Gupta, Rebecca Solnit, David Graeber, Jeff Goldthorpe, John Tarleton, Sarah Jaffe, Dave Lippman, Tom Angotti, Chris Williams, & Mickey Z.