Turbulence: Ideas for Movement
Issue #1: What would it mean to win?

Turbulence is a journal-cum-newspaper that we hope will become an ongoing space in which to think through, debate and articulate the political, social, economic and cultural theories of our movements, as well as the networks of diverse practices and alternatives that surround them. The first issue, produced in newspaper form and distributed en masse at the mobilisation around the 2007 G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, addresses the question: What would it mean to win?

At the end of the 20th century many involved in various movements around the world had the sense that 'we were winning'. In 2007, things appear much more complicated. The Turbulence collective asked 14 groups, collectives and individuals to confront this essential question…

The articles from the first issue are now available to read and download online.

Editorial: Are we winning?
Turbulence Collective
Politics in an age of fantasy
Stephen Duncombe

Enclosing the enclosers
Gustavo Esteva

Singularisation of the common
Sandro Mezzadra & Gigi Roggero

A new weather front
Paul Sumburn

Money for nothing?
Max Henninger

Walking in the right direction?
Ben Trott

Organise local, strike global
Valery Alzaga & Rodrigo Nunes

Solidarity economics
Euclides André Mance

Compositional power
Todd Hamilton & Nate Holdren

'Becoming-Woman?' In theory or in practice?
Michal Osterweil

Politicising sadness
Colectivo Situaciones

Worlds in motion
The Free Association

Commonism
Nick Dyer-Witherford

The crazy before the new
Harry Halpin & Kay Summer

Turbulence Editorial Collective: David Harvie, Keir Milburn, Tadzio Mueller, Rodrigo Nunes, Michal Osterweil, Kay Summer, Ben Trott, David Watts

www.turbulence.org.uk

Please send any comments, criticisms and/or translations of articles to  editors@turbulence.org.uk