Looking for answers to problems ignored by the political class - low-wages, un-achievable house prices, global warming - a new global, young and left-wing movement was born from student Occupy campaigning. This is the inside story of how the left came back to life in the 2010s, from a man who found himself at the centre of events - featuring unparalleled access and a range of interviews with key left-wing figures. Influential journalist and activist Michael Chessum explains how this movement was built, why it failed, and what it needs to do now.
Looking for answers to problems ignored by the political class - low-wages, un-achievable house prices, global warming - a new global, young and left-wing movement was born from student Occupy campaigning. This is the inside story of how the left came back to life in the 2010s, from a man who found himself at the centre of events - featuring unparalleled access and a range of interviews with key left-wing figures. Influential journalist and activist Michael Chessum explains how this movement was built, why it failed, and what it needs to do now.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Chessum is a journalist and activist. He has written for the Guardian and Observer, the New Statesman, The Independent, Vice, Novara, The London Review of Books and many others. He co-founded the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, playing a prominent role in the student protests of 2010 and the anti-austerity movement that followed. In 2016-17, he was a member of Momentum's first Steering Committee, serving as its Treasurer, and worked as a press officer and speechwriter on Jeremy Corbyn's second leadership campaign. As National Organiser for the left wing anti-Brexit group Another Europe is Possible, he became a dissident within Corbynism and a prominent voice in the public debate on Brexit and migrants' rights.
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Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: 2010-2015 Chapter One: Students in a dream world Chapter Two: A generation without a history Chapter Three: The wave breaks PART TWO: 2015-2020 Chapter Four: The riptide Chapter Five: The movement versus the machine Chapter Six: The machine strikes back: Brexit Conclusion: What now? Further Reading Index
Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: 2010-2015 Chapter One: Students in a dream world Chapter Two: A generation without a history Chapter Three: The wave breaks PART TWO: 2015-2020 Chapter Four: The riptide Chapter Five: The movement versus the machine Chapter Six: The machine strikes back: Brexit Conclusion: What now? Further Reading Index
Preface to the Paperback
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: 2010-2015
Chapter One: Students in a dream world
Chapter Two: A generation without a history
Chapter Three: The wave breaks
PART TWO: 2015-2020
Chapter Four: The riptide
Chapter Five: The movement versus the machine
Chapter Six: The machine strikes back: Brexit
Updated Conclusion: What now?
Further Reading
Index
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Pacey but sober, witty but often very stark – that nevertheless left me feeling so optimistic.
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