by Tomas Rothaus
PM Press
6/10/2025, paperback
SKU: 9798887441054
This is history come to life.
At the turn of the century, the movement against capitalist globalization exploded onto the world stage with mass mobilizations in Quebec City, Washington, Genoa, and other cities. Anarchists faced off against heads of state, captains of industry, and riot police by the thousands. While the authorities sought to bend all living things to the profit imperative, anarchists set out to demonstrate a way of fighting that could open the road to a future beyond capitalism. The twenty-first century was up for grabs. And every time, Tomas Rothaus was there, fighting on the front line.
In Another War Is Possible, we follow Tomas from his days as a young militant to his tenure editing the publication Barricada. In vivid prose, he recounts the lessons he learned from veterans of the Spanish CNT--his first experience trading blows with police in the streets of Paris--his adventures slipping across borders to participate in epoch-making riots. With Tomas, we breathe tear gas, we tear down fences, we tour the squats and battlefields of three continents.
Along the way, Tomas shows that the tragedies of the twenty-first century were not inevitable--that another war was possible. His testimony is proof that another world remains possible today.
Reviews:
"Another War Is Possible is a compelling invitation to revolutionaries of the past, present, and future to think critically and historically about their years of struggle. Rothaus's captivating memoir of global justice militancy beyond puppets and platitudes is painfully honest, admirably humble, and at times simply hilarious." -- Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
"My activist generation (born in the 1970s--anyone remember Generation X?) knew exactly one window where it wasn't all gloom: the high tide of the so-called antiglobalization movement from 1999 to 2001. For once, it seemed fundamental social, political, and economic change was possible--worldwide! With 9/11, at the latest, that window was shut. If you want to read an account of those exceptional years from the radical fringes of the movement, here it is. With all respect to academic treatises, NGO evaluations, and Democratic Socialists of America type musings, this is where the revolution becomes palpable. Destined to turn into an instant movement classic, Another War Is Possible tells the frontline story of attacking a system that we all know is heading toward Armageddon. It is insightful, it is smart, it is funny. Hardly ever has it been easier to endorse a book. Read!" -- Gabriel Kuhn, author of Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics, Second Edition
About the Author:
Tomas Rothaus is a lifelong anarchist and antifascist as well as an athlete and a father. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his nomadic life led to him moving around with stops in Athens, Boston, Buenos Aires, and Paris, followed by longer stints in Germany, and more recently returning to Argentina. He has been involved with a broad range of organizations including the CNT-Vignoles, Collectif Anti Expulsions (Anti Deportation Collective), Barricada Collective, Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists, Antifaschistische Linke International, and Acción Antifascista Buenos Aires. Over the past twenty plus years he has been an active participant in militant demonstrations and antifascist mobilizations ranging from the 2001 Bush inauguration, the FTAA summit in Quebec, the 2007 G8 summit in Rostock, and the 2011 mobilization to stop the march of several thousand neo-Nazis in the city of Dresden.