• A movement is stirring — my experience at Rev21’s convention

    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…

  • Why do protest movements fail? If We Burn by Vincent Bevins, review and analysis

    Something odd happened in the 2010s. As the journalist Vincent Bevins puts it: From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. I was one of them. I marched in November 2010 against the British government’s plans to treble the tuition fees for universities. It didn’t…