• What is Assemble’s House of the People?

    An earlier event from Assemble last August, which launched the work to run the House of the People. This month’s event is at a different venue but will look quite similar. Why rely on the government to start national citizens’ assemblies if you can start your own? This is a huge task. But after over…

  • All In: A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse, review and analysis

    All In: A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse is a book by two activists connected with the Portuguese climate campaign Climáximo, Mariana Rodrigues and Sinan Eden. I heard about All In during a Rev21 webinar with Alice Gato, another Climáximo activist, and gave it a read. All In begins with the argument that the…

  • Another day in paradigms — Roger Hallam’s podcast, review and analysis (Part 2)

    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…

  • A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall — Roger Hallam’s podcast, review and analysis (Part 1)

    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…

  • 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…