Movements@Manchester

Interview: Stansted 15, Direct Action and Legal Repression

13 Dec 2018

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...

Uber and the corporate capture of e-petitions

6 Nov 2017

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...

Hamburg G20 protests and alternative futures

4 Sep 2017

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...

Much ado about populism?

2 May 2017

A response to Aslanidis (2016) “Populist Social Movements of the Great Recession”, Mobilization 21(3):301-321 (following discussion in the movements@manchester reading group 25th April 2017) Populism is the big news of the 2010s. We’ve had the rise of Trump and Bernie...

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement: Losing Hope

27 Apr 2017

A 500,000 person demonstration, a referendum for universal suffrage, a 79-day Occupy Movement……efforts to fight for democracy in Hong Kong over the past decade or so have not yet paid off. The election for the Chief Executive of Hong Kong held on March 26, 2017...