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If you’re in despair about the state of the world, the best thing you can do is join a movement for an alternatives — one that can make a real difference. My view is that the current crises are too severe to be answered in the existing mainstream. And while past radical movements like communism…
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Ever since my review of the first part, I’ve continued plugging away at Roger Hallam’s podcast. This one covers chapters 13 to 21, a total of 12 episodes as some chapters are in two parts. There are also three sets of standalone episodes that form trilogies, one on organising and another on the flaws of…
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I’ve written earlier about an article Roger Hallam wrote on the revolutionary potential of assemblies. I’ve more recently been listening to his podcast, Designing the Revolution, mostly from 2023 with some more scattered episodes since. Though it appears to be aimed at starting an environmental activist group, it has important lessons for starting a people’s…
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If you had to guess what “the defining movement of the next five years in Western democracies” would be, the far right would appear a sure bet. But in a piece from few weeks back in The Ecologist, Roger Hallam suggests it could be something else: “Radical, assembly-based political parties”. For those who don’t know,…
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In my previous and first post, I explained what a people’s assembly is. This is the first of a two-part post in which I discuss why we need them. This first part discusses the problems that lead us there in order to understand the broad argument for assembly democracy. The second will discuss the benefits…
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