So, what is it?  Who is involved, what do they want, and how do they aim to get it? 

Kingsnorth has travelled across five continents to visit some of the epicentres of the movement in his attempt to find out.  Along the way, he found a new political movement and a new political idea.  Not socialism, not capitalism, not any ‘ism’ at all, it is united in what it opposes, and deliberately diverse in what it wants instead – a politics of ‘one no, many yeses.’ One No, Many Yeses moves the ‘anti-globalisation’ debate on to the next phase. Rather than just presenting us with the problems posed by an out-of-control global economy, Kingsnorth examines those already resisting it and the diverse range of alternatives being implemented.  Ultimately, he charts the development of a new movement that may yet change the world. 

--Publisher

If you liked No Logo…You’ll love One No, Many Yeses

--The Times

Gripping, engaging and inspiring  – it will become a classic.    

--George Monbiot

It’s as if Alex Garland has taken Naomi Klein on holiday … part visionary, part historian, [Kingsnorth’s] voice is accessible, impassioned and persuasive.
--Esquire

This gripping, highly personable travelogue is essential reading for anyone who wants to get up to speed with the growing social-justice movement. RATING: 5/5
--New Internationalist

An enlightening guide to the ragbag of anti-globalisation movements.
--New Statesman

‘Reading One No, Many Yeses reminded me of John Reed's classic reportage from the Russian and Mexican revolutions a century ago. Not least because Kingsnorth's book begins with the Zapatistas coming out of the Mexican jungles to declare bankrupt the inheritors of the old Mexican revolution. Can the new movement do better? We shall see, but its literature is starting to shape up quite well.’
--New Scientist

Brilliant.
--The Ecologist

An engagingly-written and worthy successor to No Logo.
--I-D

Skillfully crafted … investigative journalism of the highest order.
--Fourth World Review

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Paul Kingsnorth, a writer and campaigner, was born in 1972, in Worcester. Between 1991 and 1994, he studied history at Oxford University. At Oxford, he became  politicised and developed deep ecological concerns. In the first of the many road protests to define the British landscape (from West London to Bath), Kingsnorth was involved in the campaign to protect Twyford Down from the extension of the M3 motorway. He also, while at the university, represented the Green Party on the student union executive, and edited the student newspaper and a national magazine, Green Student.

On leaving university, Kingsnorth spent two months working on an orangutan rehabilitation project in Borneo, before starting work as a researcher and trainee writer at The Independent newspaper, where he remained just under a year before he left to work as a writer and campaigner for the London-based NGO EarthAction. Two years later he became a freelance journalist, and two years after that, in 1999, deputy editor of The Ecologist, the world’s longest-running green magazine. In 2001 he left the staff of the magazine (for which he still writes a monthly column) to research and write One No, Many Yeses. In 2001, Kingsnorth  was nominated in the New Statesman  as one of Britain’s "Top Troublemakers." He lives in Oxford, on the river Thames.