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Bart van der Steen studied history at Leiden University and wrote his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, where he studied the squatter and autonomous movements in Amsterdam and Hamburg during the 1980s. In 2012, he finished his PhD thesis, titled Between Street Fight and Stadtguerrilla: The Autonomous Movement in Amsterdam and Hamburg During the 1980s.

Ask Katzeff studied at Copenhagen University, where he specialized in the politics and practice of the alterglobalization movement. He is coeditor of the journals Arbejderhistorie and Øjeblikket and currently works as a PhD researcher at Copenhagen University, focusing on the interaction between urban development and squatting in Europe from the 1970s onward.

Leendert van Hoogenhuijze studied history at Leiden University and is coeditor of the Dutch socialist annual Kritiek.

George Katsiaficas lives in Gwangju, South Korea, and in Ocean Beach, California. A student of Herbert Marcuse, he is the author of The Subversion of Politics (AK Press) and the two-volume Asia's Unknown Uprisings (PM Press). Together with Kathleen Cleaver, he coedited Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party (Routledge).

The author, writing under the pseudonym of Geronimo, has been an autonomous activist since the movement burst onto the European scene in 1980-81.