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We Are Everywhere: The irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism edited by Notes from Nowhere, Verso, £10.99, ISBN 1859844472 Reviewed by Mike Holderness

IT has taken less than five years for the movement of anti-capitalist movements documented in We Are Everywhere to have its powerful effects. World trade talks will never be the same again after the 1999 Battle of Seattle, for example. The editorial collective Notes from Nowhere asserts that this is because their movements understand, in their bones, what science is learning about complexity. Capitalism itself is, after all, a chaotic complex system seething with emergent phenomena. Conventional politics…

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