By Matthijs Gardenier and Arthur GrozThe activity of the French far right outside traditional parties seems to depend to a large extent on the current political situation. Several social movement strategies can be identified among French far-right groups. The first is...
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What do activists actually need to know? Answers from radical movements across Europe?
By Laurence Cox and the ULEX ProjectAs the Global North (only) starts to move towards the end of the pandemic, global heating is still intensifying; a rising tide of authoritarian governments and far-right groups threatens democracy and movements around the world;...
Farmers’ Protests in India as a Counter Hegemonic Social Force
Note: This piece was first published on Discover Society. Farmers and agricultural workers have been blocking numerous entry points at the borders of New Delhi for more than a month. They travelled from great distances to India’s capital by tractors, buses and on...
Can we compare the occupy action in the US Capitol with those in Hong Kong and Taiwan?
Violent clashes with police, storming the legislature, vandalizing properties in the parliamentary building …… All these happened in the United States, one of the most well-established democratic states in the world. The event in the US Capitol shocked the world and...
The Umbrella Movement 2.0: The 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest in Hong Kong
In September 2014, hundreds of thousands of protesters in Hong Kong went onto the street, standing up against the Chinese National People’s Congress’s decision to bar Hong Kong from having a free and fair universal suffrage. Protesters occupied the roads around the...
Harvesting hope: the permaculture movement in India
NB This blog post was first published on openDemocracy, as part of the openMovements series (29 July 2018). The major transformative potential of permaculture in India lies in its ability to make small-scale farmers self-sufficient. Hence, it offers viable solutions...
Interview: Stansted 15, Direct Action and Legal Repression
On 10th December 15 anti-deportation activists were convicted under anti-terror legislation for their peaceful direct action at Stansted airport. Graeme Hayes observed the whole trial as part of a wider research project on disobedience, direct action and trials of...
Marxist Theory, Party Organisation and Today’s Social Movements. Impressions of The Socialism Conference 2018 in Chicago.
The Socialism Conference took place from July 5 to 8 in Chicago, Illinois. Organised by The International Socialist Organisation (ISO), the annual conference was co-sponsored by Jacobin for the second year in a row. Around 2000 participants from all over the world,...
Uber and the corporate capture of e-petitions
Steve Andrews looks at a profit-making petition platform's questionable relationship with the cab company.This blog post was originally published by Red Pepper in October, 2017. Re-posted by kind permission.‘As an open platform, anyone can use our platform no matter...
Hamburg G20 protests and alternative futures
NB This blog post was first published on openDemocracy, as part of the openmovements series. On July 8, 2017, the last day of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, an estimated 76,000 people came together under the motto of ‘solidarity without borders instead of G20’ and marked...
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