The retreat of national politics in the face of the imperatives of the global financial markets is returning politics to the streets.
A year ago this month, 'the 99%' changed the discourse of US politics. But did this call to action for 'American Revolution’ issued by the Occupy Wall Street movement change politics itself? In this first of two multimedia articles, filmmaker and academic Cynthia Weber, introduces us to a range of
Spain’s crisis is not one of public debt per se. It is of private debt being transformed into a national burden.
The absence of solidarity with other causes and the persistence of neoliberalism in Bulgarian protests against the Forestry Act underline the need to adapt our understanding of "the commons" to new contexts. Neoliberal discourse and developmentalist ideology still control the imaginations of the m
The following is taken from the opening speech at the Take Back the American Dream Summit in Washington, D.C., on June 18
Six months after police violently evicted peaceful protestors from Occupy camps across the US, activists now see a programme of local engagement and international coordination as central to advancing their movement.
Since trucking deregulation began under President Jimmy Carter, trucking rates are no longer set by the federal government, but by companies like SSA Marine, who can avoid paying benefits if their truckers are not classified as employees
A year after the revolution of the indignados in Spain, the 15M movement promotes novel solutions to boost democratic participation.
The Occupy Movement, according to the authors, is above all a call for America to return to its founding roots, working on behalf on all people and not just the wealthy, powerful and privileged.
Israel's J14 protest movement is a new breed of movement in search of a society which has a mature accommodation with its diversity. The priority given to social problems over cultural issues can be traced back to anthropological and moral principles that lie at the heart of Zionism. But its criti
Taking the Occupy movement in Spain as a case in point, location, organisation and timing seem to be crucial when it comes to putting across a lasting message.
The political culture that supported global and European civil society activism in the 1999-2007 period - challenging neoliberal economic and financial power in the form of governments, EU and global institutions – has appeared irrelevant at the very moment when it could have emerged as a credible
