One No, Many Yeses

As if Alex Garland has taken Naomi Klein on holiday … part visionary, part historian, [Kingsnorth’s] voice is accessible, impassioned and persuasive.’
Esquire

Reminded me of John Reed’s classic reportage from the Russian and Mexican revolutions a century ago.
New Scientist

Excellent … both a travel book and a manifesto for worldwide economic resistance.
The Times

Kingsnorth is exactly the kind of troublemaker the world needs … One No, Many Yeses comes closer to defining the global resistance movement than any book yet.
Earth Island Journal

Seriously deficient.
Socialist Worker

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One No, Many Yeses was written at the height of the first wave of uprisings against ‘globalisation’ in 2000 and 2001, when the Zapatista uprising in Mexico was a still making waves, and every government summit was met by legions of angry protesters. I spent nine months travelling the globe, investigating the roots and the politics of this growing global movement. I spent time in rebel Zapatista villages in Mexico, visited anarchists in the USA, got tear-gassed at the Genoa G8 protests in Italy, infiltrated the world’s biggest gold mine in West Papua, lived with landless squatters in Brazil and then came back home to write about where it all connected up.

My first book is starting to look like a work of history now, but I still get emails about it, and it’s found its way onto reading lists and syllabuses (syllabi?) around the world. There are plenty of books out there about capitalism, injustice and how to save the world, but there isn’t, I don’t think, another book quite like this: a piece of campaigning journalism which gets down and dirty with the people and the places at the root of that remarkable period of history.

Simon and Schuster, 2003.

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