Join the Young Democratic Socialists of America for our Fall 2026 Book Club! We will be reading If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. Below is a synopsis of the book.

Our discussion sessions will be every other Sunday at 10:00 am hybrid in the Georgia Tech library and on Zoom. Check this document for more information. Please register for the Zoom to join.

"From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. Acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world, guided by a single, puzzling question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for?

The result is a stirring work of history that connects events in a dozen countries and reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided. From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine’s Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements and their consequences, recounted in gripping detail.

In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, offering urgent lessons for the future."