What Is Democracy Without Equality of Results?
Liberal democracy is under threat. What kind of democracy should the left fight for? Astra Taylor has both answers and questions.
Social Movements Will Not Free Us (part three)
A strengthened ‘civil society’ will not win anyone’s liberation. Popular struggles will, if we Agitate, Educate and Organize so people see the Left Alternative.
Social Movements Will Not Free Us (part two)
Does ‘strengthening (a) civil society’ of voluntary associations gradually improve liberal democracy ‘from below’? It is conventional wisdom. But mostly wrong.
Social Movements Will Not Free Us (part one)
Why did the Arab Spring lead to more brutal repression, instead of more democracy? Asef Bayat’s analysis provides some lessons for the left everywhere.
