This chapter examines the potential for a radical notion of resilience to challenge hegemonic understandings of everyday capitalist life. Resilience has been increasingly criticised in many fields for focussing on attempts to bounce back or maintain the status quo following a disturbance. Such conceptualisations can uphold the hegemony of discourses of stability and are potentially unhelpful for groups seeking to achieve radical change. Despite this, the concept is fast subsuming sustainability as the latest catch phrase for community organisations wishing to address social and environmental injustices. Grassroots groups are mobilising activism to shape this interpretation through post-capitalist visions–creating alternatives to dominant capitalist narratives in the present. This chapter will discuss the expression of these radical notions of resilience through exploring how activism intersects with experiences of disaster through the example provided by Project Lyttelton, a community organisation at the epicentre of the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake in Aotearoa, New Zealand. By exploring this tension between resilience and post-capitalist activism, this chapter contributes to an emerging area of critique through articulating a more nuanced understanding of the radical potential for what is often expressed as an inherently non-radical concept. Resilience has become a popular and dominant discourse, not only for disaster recovery and preparedness but also for approaching broader social and environmental challenges (Béne et al. 2012; MacKinnon and Derickson 2012; World Bank 2006).