Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagginggrowth, and they still want us to believe in the economy.... We have to see that theeconomy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that thereis too much of it.--from The Coming InsurrectionThe Coming Insurrection is aneloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in Franceand Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of GuyDebord--and with comparable elegance--it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorismby the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of itsmembers more adequately described the group as "the name given to a collectivevoice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality." The ComingInsurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine capable of"spreading anarchy and live communism."Written in the wake of the riotsthat erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging morerecent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrectionarticulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligningitself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged inEurope around recent struggles against immigration control and the "war onterror."Hot-wired to the movement of '77 in Italy, its preferred historicalreference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as itsstarting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration ofcollective, self-organized life forms. It is a philosophical statement thataddresses the growing number of those--in France, in the United States, andelsewhere--who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separaterealms.