Talking About a Revolution

Interviews with Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, bell hooks, Peter Kwong, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Urvashi Vaid, and Howard Zinn

Plot

“Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.”
― bell hooks

On its twentieth anniversary, the South End Press collective has gathered the left's most prominent intellectuals for a wide-ranging discussion of the past twenty years and the next twenty years of progressive social movements in the United States. In nine accessible, personal interviews, Chomsky, Zinn, Hooks, Ehrenreich, Marable, and the other activists and writers included let readers know their most deeply held beliefs and hopes for the progressive movements they have worked to build over the last two decades. Everyone who would like to see a revitalized, more effective movement for social change in the United States whether feminist, anti-racist, populist, anarchist, socialist, or union activist will want to read Talking About a Revolution. Talking About a Revolution offers an easy and lively introduction to the ideas of some of the leading intellectuals on the left today.An accessible collection of original interviews with the left's best intellectuals and activists.

Lesbian interviews include:
bell hooks
Urvashi Vaid