Includes bibliographical references (p. 474-477) and index.

Preface / Charles Esche -- Inroduction / Will Bradley -- Part I: 1871 -- Letters, October 1870-April 1871 / Gustave Courbet -- 29 October 1870 -- 18 March 1871 -- 7 April 1871 -- 30 April 1871 -- Socialism from the root up / William Morris and E. Belfort Bax -- The socialist ideal: art / William Morris -- The war in Paterson / John Reed -- Part II: 1917 -- En avant DADA: a history of Dadaism / Richard Huelsenbeck -- Programme declaration / Komfut -- A general theory of constructivism / Varvara Stepanova -- Art and propaganda / William Pickens -- The end of art / Theo van Doesburg -- Art and reality / Mieczyslaw Szczuka -- Draft manifesto / The John Reed Club of New York -- Open the prisons! disband the army /The Surrealist Group -- Revolution now and forever! / The Surrealist Group -- Cannibalist manifest / Oswald De Andrade -- Deutschland Deutschland über alles / Kurt Tucholsky and John Heartfield -- Bauhaus no. 3 the student's voice / Kostufra -- The fall of Hannes Meyer / Kostufra -- Letter, August 1936 / Felicia Browne -- We ask your attention / British Surrealist Group -- Vision in motion / Laszlo Mohholy-Nagy -- Part III: 1968 -- Theses on the Paris commune situationist international / Guy Debord, Attila Kotányi, Raoul Vaneigem --Response to a questionnaire from the center for socio-experimental art situationist international / J.V. Martin, Jan Strijbosch, Raoul Vaneigem, Rene Viénet -- Statement / Black Mask -- Art and revolution / Black Mask -- Psychedelic manifesto / Sture Johannesson -- Hopes for great happenings / Albert Hunt -- Guerrilla theatre / Ronald G. Davis -- Trip without a ticket / The San Francisco Diggers -- The post-competitive, comparative game of a free city / The San Francisco Diggers -- Experience 68 / The Avant-Garde Artists Group -- Tucumán Arde / The Avant-Garde Artists Group -- Posters from the revolution, Paris, May 1968 / Atelier Populaire -- Position paper no. 1: on revolutionary art / Emory Douglas -- Letter, April 1968 / Hans Haacke -- Manifesto for the Guerrilla Art Action Group / Guerrilla Art Action Group -- A call for the immediate resignation of all the Rockefellers from the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art / Guerrilla Art Action Group -- Letter to Richard M. Nixon / Guerrilla Art Action Group -- Insertions into ideological circuits 1970-75 / Cildo Meireles -- Radical software, vol. 1 no. 1, the alternate television movment / Phyllis Gershuny and Beryl Korot -- The videosphere / Gene Youngblood -- Cybernetic guerrilla warfare / Paul Ryan -- Proclamation of the orange free state / The Kabouters -- Call to the artists of Latin America -- Women's art: a manifesto / Valie Export -- Notes on street art by the brigadas Ramona Parra / Mone Gonzalez -- Resolutions of the third world filmmakers meeting in Algiers -- Press release, September 1976 / Solvognen -- Invisible theatre / Augusto Boal -- For self-management art / Zoran Popović -- The sword is mightier than the Swede? / Sture Johannesson -- Position paper: crossroads community (the farm) / Bonnie Sherk -- Art hysterical notions of progress and culture / Valerie Jaudon and Joyce Kozloff -- Ideology, confrontation and political self-awareness / Adrian Piper -- The Docklands photo-murals / Peter Dunn and Lorraine Leeson / Dispatches from an unofficial war artist / Peter Kennard -- Ten items of the covenant / Laibach -- Flyer for the rev-revue of soc-fashion / Orange Alternative -- Part IV: 1989 -- Geometric retroabstraction / Desiderio Navarro -- The border art workshop: Taller de Arte Fronterizo / Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Emily Hicks, interviewed by Coco Fusco -- A presentation gran fury / Tom Kalin, Michael Nesline, and John Lindell -- Rebellion on level p / Christoph Schäfer and Cathy Skene with the Hafenrandverein -- Popotia / RevArte -- Statement by the feminist artist / Collective Ip Gim -- How to? / Tiqqun -- Politicising sadness / Colectivo Situaciones -- Mayan technologies and the theory of electronic civil disobedience / Richard Dominguez interviewed by Benjamin Shepard and Stephen Duncombe -- The articulation of protest / Hito Steyerl -- A concise lexicon of/for the digital commons / Raqs Media Collective -- The revenge of the concept: artistc exchanges, networked resistance / Brian Holmes -- Drifting producers / Jeon Yongseok -- There is no alternative: the future is self-organised / Stephan Dillemuth, Anthony Davies and Jakob Jakobsen -- Part V: Commissioned essays -- The many ands of art and revolution / Gerald Raunig -- Rebuilding the art of the people / John Milner -- Time capsule / Lucy R. Lippard -- Secular artist, citizen artist / Geeta Kapur -- Selling the air: notes on art and the desire for social change in Tehran / Tirdad Zolghadr -- Line describing a curb asymptotes about Valie Export, the new urbanism and contemporary art / Marina Vishmidt.