Stories of struggles worldwide highlight the determination to resist exploitation and injustice while constructing alternative narratives of economic and political difference. These accounts of emancipatory moments reveal the potential for radically different socio-economic relations to emerge beyond capitalism. This work offers a fresh perspective on how alternatives can manifest based on lived experiences. Contributors, including labor activists and academics, examine various economic and political initiatives across six countries—Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Nigeria, the Philippines, and South Korea. They explore how these initiatives can become tangible spaces for developing critical consciousness and transformative capacities essential for challenging dominant social, economic, and political structures. The narratives illuminate the contemporary language of struggle, showcasing what inspires individuals to create their own moments and spaces for transformative self-change. While the book does not propose a direct alternative to capitalism, it enriches the ongoing debate about what alternatives might look like by grounding them in the everyday lives and struggles of workers, women, Indigenous peoples, the unemployed, and the poor.
