Social Movement

Social Movement

• Extinction Rebellion: a movement recharged

  

  Environmental politics has been given a much-needed shot in the arm, reports Bill Perry 

• Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart - book review

  

  The success of trade-union organising in Walmart within Chile shows the potential social power of workers in the most difficult circumstances, finds Orlando Hill

• Marx and the fight against climate change - Counterfire Media Podcast

  

  Elaine Graham-Leigh and Tom Lock Griffiths discuss the Marxist perspective on ecology and the fight against climate change in the third episode of Counterfire Media's Podcast

• Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump - book review

  

  Mistaken Identity reveals identity politics as the strategy of defeat, but solidarities are built through engagement in existing movements, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• Corbyn and the mainstream media: a case-study in fake news

  

  Since Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, the media attacks have been relentless. T. J Coles, author of new book Real Fake News, examines

• Corbyn makes defiant speech as thousands welcome him to Liverpool

  

  At a Labour rally at Liverpool's pier on the eve of Conference, Jeremy Corbyn gave a radical speech to rapturous applause and loud chanting

• What's wrong with the IHRA definition? - video

  

  A short video explaining why adopting the full IHRA definition would be a mistake for Labour

• The dangers we face

  

  The current ascendancy of the left in the UK is beset by serious threats. They must be faced and defeated, argues John Rees

• We stopped Trump

  

  Over 250,000 people marched through central London on a Friday, and Pete Morgan argues that together we stopped Trump

• Victory as Ireland votes to repeal the 8th amendment

  

  As the results from the referendum in Ireland come in, it looks as though the Irish people have voted overwhelmingly to repeal draconian anti-abortion laws, Elly Badcock reports

• The Corbyn Moment - video

  

  Some clips from the speeches made at The Corbyn Moment event in London filmed and edited by Paul Merron

• The Corbyn Moment

  

  It is now more than ever the time to transform Labour into a social movement, argues Mark Perryman

• The left surge in France: a breakthrough in the making?

  

  On the eve of the presidential election in France, Feyzi Ismail talks to Danièle Obono, a leading figure in the campaign of left-wing hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon

• Excitement in the French elections: the meaning of Jean-Luc Mélenchon

  

  The leftwinger's inspiring campaign raises crucial questions about the potential and limits of state action in favour of the working class, writes John Mullen

• Keeping up: How Corbyn and the left can break through

  

  The fortunes of the Corbyn project and the wider movement are intertwined, argues Ben Myers

• Corbyn: how to play the media

  

  Des Freedman considers the pitfalls of delivering a socialist message on a hostile media terrain

• Owen Jones has got it wrong about Jeremy Corbyn

  

  Owen Jones is wrong to compare Corbyn's foreign policy to that of Ed Miliband, writes Lindsey German

• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

  

  With Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, we have the possibility of winning millions to radical change, writes Chris Nineham

• The fight is on - help us hit our campaign target

  

  We need your help to finance the resistance

• Politics is hotting up, not just in Westminster

  

  The Tories and Labour are tearing themselves apart, but looking beyond Westminster, various movements are growing in strength, reports Lindsey German

• Black Lives Matter spreads to Britain

  

  As racist attacks escalate in the US, and continue in the UK, the show of solidarity from Britain's streets is inspiring, writes Shabbir Lakha

• Brazil: the movement strikes back

  

  The lower house of Brazil's parliament has moved to annul Rousseff's impeachment, but only the movements can stop the coup. Orlando Hill introduces and translates an official statement from CUT

• Sticker Campaign: Sticking it to the Tories

  

  #StickItToTheTories is a Britain-wide sticker distribution campaign supported by the People's Assembly 

• Don’t just watch: The logic of Corbyn’s rise revealed

  

  Corbyn's rise is only the most recent expression of a long term trend towards a more radical and left-wing politics, argues Chris Nineham

• Corbyn, electability and the Middle England myth

  

  Chris Nineham challenges the ‘Corbyn just won’t play in Middle England’ argument

• Refugees, solidarity and anti-racism

  

  Tens of thousands of refugees have organised and triggered a wave of social solidarity which in some countries is unprecedented writes Kevin Ovenden

• Corbyn's enemies are panicked, will they pounce?

  

  As the vote gets underway and particularly if Corbyn wins, what the movement does remains crucial argues Chris Nineham

• Jeremy Corbyn calls for mass protests at Tory Conference

  

  Jeremy Corbyn tells John Rees why his campaign aims to be a social movement and urges everyone who opposes austerity to demonstrate at Tory Conference in October

• What's behind the Corbyn surge and why it matters

  

  As underdog becomes front-runner Chris Nineham looks at the factors behind the Corbyn surge

• South Africa after Marikana: an interview with Trevor Ngwane

  

  South African socialist and anti-apartheid activist Trevor Ngwane is interviewed by Susan Newman

• Building a movement to beat the government: Dangerous Times Festival 2015

  

  Video of the session 'Building a movement to beat the government' at Dangerous Times Festival 2015. Featuring Rabina Khan, Faiza Shaheen, Francesca Martinez and Sam Fairbairn. Produced by Paul Hanes

• Social Democracy, Mass Movements and Revolution: John Rees at Dangerous Times 2015

  

  John Rees speaking at Dangerous Times Festival 2015. Video by Paul Hanes

• Radical: what’s in a word?

  

  No solution can be really radical that attempts to avoid, diminish or circumvent the direct participation of the masses argues John Rees

• On Saturday we became a movement - now we must organise to defeat the government

  

  Saturday's march demonstrated that the People's Assembly is now a genuine mass movement, now we have to take it to a higher stage writes Lindsey German

• Why Stop the War supports Jeremy Corbyn's campaign to be Labour leader

  

  We can all help to build Jeremy Corbyn's campaign, to see a strong alternative voice to war and austerity gets the hearing it deserves

• What makes a movement?

  

  Change comes from mass action by working people - and as the movement grows, socialist organisation in the movement needs to grow too writes Chris Nineham

• Revolutionising reformism

  

  It will be up to the radicals and revolutionaries to make the case for an effective, modern reformism - a minimum set of demands, as a prelude to further radicalization - argues James Meadway

• Working together, winning together

  

  Tony Dowling reports from this week's NUT conference

• The crisis of British politics

  

  A resolution on the crisis of British politics passed at Counterfire National Conference 2015. Submitted by the Steering Committee

• The Contradictions of Media Power

  

  Des Freedman shows how the media is neither a simple monolith of power, nor a free-market of ideas, but that its contradictions allow mass movements to exert real pressure, argues Lindy Syson

• Dispatches from hope: a primer on the Greek election

  

  The fight is on for an alternative to neoliberalism. In the first of a regular series of reports from Greece, Kevin Ovenden explains the significance of this month's Greek general election

• Movements can make history - but revolutions don’t just happen

  

  Chris Nineham argues that two new Marxist books about social movements reflect a common tendency to downplay the conscious, organised element in the way change happens

• The crisis of the British regime: democracy, protest and the unions

  

  The British political regime faces a crisis of confidence. This report presents empirical evidence for the democratic deficit, growing protest, the state of the trade unions and the strategic implications for the left