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Znet Article Wainwright: We Need To Challenge The Myths That Poison Attempts At Progressive Change

Znet Article, April, 18 2013 Hilary Wainwright
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The first in a series of mythbusters

Znet Article Wainwright: Political Organisation In Transition

Znet Article, January, 16 2013 Hilary Wainwright
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Syriza’s ability to give a focused political voice to the anger and despair of millions has made a breakthrough from which we can learn

Znet Article Wainwright: Transformative Power: Political Organisation In Transition

Znet Article, December, 13 2012 Hilary Wainwright
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Organizational forms are needed for the purpose of making present in the political system struggles in society

Znet Article Wainwright: Something Rotten In The ANC State

Znet Article, December, 09 2012 Hilary Wainwright
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After the Marikana massacre, ANC activists are turning against their government

Znet Article Wainwright: Unleashing The Creativity Of Labour

Znet Article, October, 04 2012 Hilary Wainwright
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We need to create not simply full employment, but the conditions by which people can creatively collaborate to meet the needs of a changing society and a precarious planet

Znet Article Wainwright: Greece: Syriza Shines a Light

Znet Article, July, 25 2012 Hilary Wainwright
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In Greece, a radical left coalition is actively preparing for power in society and in parliament

Znet Article Wainwright: Co-Operatise the State?

Znet Article, May, 17 2012 Hilary Wainwright
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Can the co-op movement be one source of alternatives to marketisation?

Znet Article Wainwright: An Excess of Democracy

Znet Article, February, 14 2012 Hilary Wainwright
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Today's movements are effectively focusing their energies especially on challenging the oligarchic market, and the injustice of corporate, financial power

Znet Article Wainwright: Resistance Takes Root in Barcelona

Znet Article, November, 28 2011 Hilary Wainwright
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The important, distinguishing feature of this vision of change is that it is not centred on what governments should do

Znet Article Wainwright: Resistance Takes Root in Barcelona

Znet Article, October, 18 2011 Hilary Wainwright
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What is emerging is a movement where leadership is shared and is learned – a movement that can grow and flourish as well as stand firm.

Znet Article Wainwright: AV's not Perfect, But We Need it for Plurality

Znet Article, April, 30 2011 Hilary Wainwright
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The "winner takes all" electoral system has been a vital accomplice in this establishment hijack

Znet Article Wainwright: A New Trade Unionism in the Making?

Znet Article, April, 09 2011 Hilary Wainwright
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The financial crisis is completing the delegitimization of the economics of social need and public goods

Znet Article Wainwright: Crack capitalism or reclaim the state

Znet Article, March, 01 2011 Hilary Wainwright
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John Holloway and Hilary Wainwright debate the potential for democratizing the state, how and how capitalism is best confronted.

Znet Article Wainwright: The Resistible Rise Of Corporate Power

Znet Article, November, 18 2010 Hilary Wainwright
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The massive concentration and growth of corporate power poses a major threat to what remains of public services, highlighting the ever-deepening crisis of democracy, and the urgent need for people to reclaim the state.

Znet Article Wainwright: A new trade unionism in the making?

Znet Article, November, 13 2010 Hilary Wainwright
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A trade unionism able to facilitate and express the practical knowledge of its members, as workers and as citizens, is critical to the renewal of public services and for confronting a global politics of austerity.

Znet Article Wainwright: 2020: Public service reform ... but not as we know it!

Znet Article, July, 30 2010 Hilary Wainwright
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Over the last two centuries corporate lawyers and investment bankers have been central to the undemocratic consolidation of private corporate power.

Znet Article Wainwright: Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge launched

Znet Article, November, 19 2009 Hilary Wainwright
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An international coalition has launched Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge as a response to the recent agreement of the European Commission on the “protection” of Internet access, brought under the pressure of the lobbi...

Znet Article Wainwright: Any Respect Left?

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Hilary Wainwright
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The gap to the left of Labour grows ever wider, but once again the left has failed even to lay down even a solid foundation stone towards filling it. Witness the implosion of Respect, with two rival meetings this Saturday.

Znet Article Wainwright: The Commons, The State and Transformative Politics

Znet Article, January, 13 2008 Hilary Wainwright
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Hilary Wainwright examines how new technology and new forms of organisation are coming together to transform the left and labour movements, political representation and democracy.

Znet Article Wainwright: Democracy diary

Znet Article, December, 14 2007 Hilary Wainwright
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Hilary Wainwright reports from Caracas on Venezuela's referendum - and the next steps towards reform.

Znet Article Wainwright: Dare to Be Disobedient

Znet Article, December, 11 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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'We don't do pillows ... but I could get you an extra blanket." Kind though she was, the night officer at Clydebank police station couldn't turn a stone-floored police cell into a cosy bed and breakfast. I'd been driven back to Glasgow after my ar...

Znet Article Wainwright: Lula and Brazil: Tropical Blair or Axis of Hope?

Znet Article, December, 08 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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Back from four days in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Time now to reflect on President Lula’s re-election for a second term. In the face of a hostile right wing media, Lula’s election seems like a notable victory for the left. After an une...

Znet Article Wainwright: Imagine there's no leaders

Znet Article, October, 09 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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We are a contrary, and often paradoxical, bunch on the left. On the one hand, most of us began our involvement in politics as rebels against authority. We often find it difficult to accept discipline - even self-discipline. Look at the left's tend...

Znet Article Wainwright: Who Will Speak For Us?

Znet Article, March, 25 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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There is a deepening crisis of political representation in the UK. As the main parties narrow the electoral contest to a diminishing patch of ‘centre-ground’, who will give voice to those whose views are unrepresented? Hilary Wainw...

Znet Article Wainwright: It's Never Too Late To Move Beyond The Choices Of The Cold War

Znet Article, February, 27 2006 Hilary Wainwright
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Dear Martin, From Leeds to Oxford, our lives were like an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan: I as a "little liberal" and you as a "little communist", your dad as a leader of the Communist party and mine of the Liberals. Both brought up in Yorks...

Znet Article Wainwright: A New Left Turn For Europe

Znet Article, November, 12 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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Members of a pan-European party are optimistic they can create a new political identity for the left, writes Hilary Wainwright Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the legacy of communism in Europe is making a new mark in the politica...

Znet Article Wainwright: Europe: Bridging The Emotional Gap

Znet Article, November, 11 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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In search of a fresh argument for the left in Britain to become more European in its thinking and organising, I picked an extraordinary book off my bookshelf: `Europe in Love; Love in Europe’ by Louisa Passerini from the European Universit...

Znet Article Wainwright: Lula's Lament

Znet Article, September, 21 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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'When there is such an overwhelming disaster and you see yourself as part of this disaster, you begin to question your whole life. Why so many years of sacrifice and struggle?' Congressman Fernando Gabeira expresses the feelings of many petistas -...

Znet Article Wainwright: The Remaking of the Left in Europe

Znet Article, September, 10 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, few would expect western Europe's once-powerful communist parties and their various successor organisations to have anything more than the weakest of pulses. But increasingly there are surprisin...

Znet Article Wainwright: WSF on Trial

Znet Article, February, 15 2005 Hilary Wainwright
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With 155, 000 participants from 135 different countries, the fifth World Social Forum held in a specially constructed site in Porto Alegre’s Marinho Park was bigger than ever, and with a wider geographic spread. Yet the future of the WSF w...

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