{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20260418T162306Z","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XK6QSFY?tag=bookfrontier-20","asin":"B06XK6QSFY","authors":["Ajamu Nangwaya","Michael Truscello"],"book_id":"9781849352789","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/why-don-t-the-poor-rise-up-B06XK6QSFY","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781849352789.jpg?v=20260418T162306Z%3A2026-04-19T10%3A16%3A55Z","description":"\"Each of these essays is a sharpened weapon for the battles looming large on the horizon.\" —George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Building the Commune \"Combining the most creative thought from the global North and South, Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? promises to be an indispensable resource for understanding why the new revolutionary movement of the 21st century will emerge from the ranks of the most marginalized by capitalism and colonialism.\" —Ajamu Baraka, editor of Black Agenda Report “Capitalism is not the answer to poverty but rather its cause! This collection presents diverse global and radical perspectives on the poor and poverty, while demonstrating concretely how and why the poor do rise up! Importantly, the collection presents strategies for building social movements of the radical Left that are a meaningful alternative to the populist right currently in ascendancy.” —Dr. Anna Kasafi Perkins, Catholic theologian, Kingston, Jamaica Why don't the poor rise up? Even mainstream media like the New York Times and The Economist have recently posed this question, uneasily amazed that capitalism hasn't met with greater resistance. In the context of unparalleled global wealth disparity, ecological catastrophe, and myriad forms of structural oppression, this vibrant collection offers a reassessment of contemporary obstacles to mass mobilization, as well as examples from around the world of poor people overcoming those obstacles in inspiring and instructive new ways. 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