Rolling Thunder Issue Number Eleven

Issue 11 of the Anarchist Journal of Living Dangerously: revolutionary strategy - the life cycles of movements - prisoner revolt - beyond ally politics - the rise and fall of the Oakland Commune - uprising in Istanbul - student strike in Montréal - anarchism in Israel - fighting gentrification - deserting the digital utopia - eternitiy by the stars.

"The history of numbers is not just the history of quantification, but also a history of mysticism. For millennia, people have sought meaning in numbers, or sometimes in a single number.… For us, the really powerful number, the one that occasions a certain gleam in the eye, is the number eleven. Eleven is one beyond. It's the next level, the unexpected escalation, the thing that comes out of nowhere to exceed what everyone believed to be the full maximum of ten. It's the line between workplace grumblings and wildcat strike, the difference between atomized individuals and a cohesive crowd, the threshold between protest and riot. It is the unspoken element that can transform a prosaic conversation into a daring point of departure. It's the frontier between achieving and superseding."