Arise!

Reviews / Votes

"A provocative discussion of the importance of revolutionary Mexico in the left radical and revolutionary movements of the early twentieth century. . . . [Heatherton] has expanded the meaning and impact of both manifestations of the human desire for social justice and revolutionary freedoms." * Counterpunch * "This magnificent book is an example of what happens when poets write history-or more precisely, when revolutionary poets write histories of revolution." * Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams (Twentieth Anniversary Edition): The Black Radical Imagination * "For at least a century, leftwing activists, thinkers, and writers of every variety have been trying to connect the skeins of activity by the left across continents and varied populations. . . . In Arise!, Christina Heatherton offers-in our troubled world with so many defeats for the left and popular movements-a vindication of sorts. . . . It is a grand sweep, richer in details than this reviewer can easily convey."
* The Progressive Magazine * "It is not only [its] insistently transnational orientation that sets . . . Heatherton's book apart. . . . It is [its] hopefulness, [its] radical faith in the undying capacity of human beings to come together to defy the color line and overturn relations of exploitation and abuse - even, and especially, in the most disorienting of historical conditions. . . . Arise! exemplif[ies] a new kind of revolutionary history, suited to a new era of struggle in the US-Mexico borderlands and beyond."
* Jacobin * "Arise! . . . emphasize[s] that organizing need not begin with ideological consistency. Instead, radical possibility can be made by paying attention to the place and conditions of the people who find themselves together." * Public Books * "Heatherton weaves together the threads of a historical web that emanated from revolutionary Mexico, filling in crucial gaps and connecting diverse narratives. In doing so . . . [she] places it in the pantheon of history's great revolutions." * El Pais * "Arise! connects a buried history of internationalist struggle . . . and enables us to reinterpret this period in a new light." * Spectre * "An invitation to seriously and collectively reflect on the political role that the writing of history has in the context of the multifaceted planetary crisis that we face today." * Hispanic American Historical Review * "This gripping book illuminates how radical movements have the power to expand intellectual and political horizons and build international solidarity." * LSE Review of Books *