If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution is a 2023 political history and journalism book by author and journalist Vincent Bevins.

[2] The title refers to the theme of self-immolation, which appears at the beginning and end of the decade, from the tragic death of Mohamed Bouazizi in 2010 to the adoption of a phrase from The Hunger Games during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests: “If we burn, you burn with us.” The book begins by tracing the history of left wing activism from the end of the October Revolution, through the New Left and into the present day.

The book additionally argues that the lack of leadership structure also allowed right-wing groups to co-opt social movements for their own purposes, leading in part to a full reversal of momentum as in Brazil.

"[4] Bevins is very critical of the mainstream media he is a part of, and uses his own experience to point to the ways that his class misrepresented or re-configured protest explosions.

[5] The book has been praised by authors and academics such as Greg Grandin, Laleh Khalili, and Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, and was positively reviewed in publications such as The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and The New York Times Magazine.