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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. Seven years

later, The Invisible Committee follows up their premonitory manifesto with

a new book, To Our Friends. From The Invisible Committee: In 2007 we

published The Coming Insurrection in France. 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. 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? During 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. Thus

To Our Friends is written at the experiential level, in connection with

that general movement. Its words issue from the turmoil and are addressed

to those who still believe sufficiently in life to fight as a consequence.

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

political ambition is immodest: to produce a shared understanding of the

epoch, in spite of the extreme confusion of the present.