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Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile

by Ramor Ryan

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ISBN13: 9781904859550
ISBN10: 1904859550
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"What separates Ramor's work from the other outstanding youngwriters is the content of what he is doing. I've never seen anythingclose to his work"-Eddie Yuen, co-editor of Confronting Capitalism

"From Belfast to the Bronx and Chiapas to Kurdistan, Ramor Ryan hasshown a lifelong commitment to social justice, a questioning mind andan ability to incorporate historical currents into his work."-MickMcCaughan, Latin American Correspondent to the Irish Times

An epic debut, Ramor Ryan's nonfiction tales read like Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diariescrossed with Hunter S. Thompson's wit and flair for the impossible. Ashrewd political thinker and philosopher with a knack for ingratiatinghimself into the thick of any social situation, Ryan has been there andlived to tell about it.

As much an adventure story as an unofficial chronicle of modern global resistance movements, Clandestinesspirits the reader across the globe, carefully weaving the narrativethrough illicit encounters and public bacchanals. From the teemingsquats of mid-90's East Berlin, to intrigue in the Zapatista AutonomousZone, a Croatian Rainbow Gathering on the heels of the G8 protests inGenoa, mutiny on the high seas, the quixotic ambitions of a Kurdishguerilla camp, the contradictions of Cuba, and the neo-liberalnightmare of post-war(s) Central America we see everywhere a world influx, struggling to be reborn.

Ramor Ryanis a rebellious rover and Irish exile who makes his home between New York City and Chiapas.

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Ramor Ryan has been traveling the globe for the past 20 years living by his wits and the good graces of the international anarchist movement. Luckily, he brought a pen.

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jgeneric, October 31, 2007 (view all comments by jgeneric)
I never thought I would enjoy a travel journal, but Ramor Ryan changed my mind. At first I thought it was going to be an over-romantic story of this guy traveling around the world in order to avoid himself, in the way that a lot of Crimethinc type of stuff reads. I'm really not into that kind of stuff. However, he really surprised me, and I'm ashamed I thought that of him in the first place in association with Crimethinc, because this guy is a real character, a great writer, and no one can call him fake for leaving out the messy details. In fact, read about his review of the two different "Days of War and Nights of Love" (one by Crimethinc, and one by Eduardo Galeano) online.

In the great tradition of Irish story-tellers, Ryan recalls experiences from the squats of West Berlin, the war zone of Kurdistan, the revolution and post-revolution repression in Nicauragua, his youth in Ireland watching the British army attack a Republican demonstration, and much more. He is an exile from his native land, moving from situations of struggle across the planet with a keen analysis of each. Ryan left Ireland in the 1980s for Nicaragua to help defend the Revolution there, and ended up seeing the Sandinistas crumble under the might of the US-funded Contras, alienating Indigenous peoples struggling for autonomy in the process. He remarks that a generation of international solidarity activists in the 1980s got their start in Nicaragua; much like many saw the same in Chiapas in the 1990s.

If you've never heard of Ramor Ryan, look him up. I would love to meet him, because this guy has such a wealth of information and has seen so much without thinking he is better than anyone else for having done so. He brings a personal touch to bloody places stormed by revolution, repression, and fights for a better world. By the end of it, I thought to myself that he had really lived his life thus far to the fullest, and brought a whole new meaning to what I thought of as an "international solidarity" activist. Much of what he writes is exciting in that revolutionary situations are very much within reach, but at the same time depressing when he discusses the aftermath in the case of defeat (like in Kurdistan or in Nicaragua).

If you want to find an inspirational person, you have to meet Ramor Ryan by reading his Clandestines.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781904859550
Subtitle:
The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile
Author:
Ryan, Ramor
Publisher:
AK Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Essays & Travelogues
Subject:
Revolutionaries
Subject:
Anarchists
Subject:
General Travel
Publication Date:
June 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
279
Dimensions:
812x590x71 77

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