Single Issue Campaigns, Community Syndicalism & Direct Democracy

Alan Morkan
Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:24:49 +0000
Household tax, Organising, Community, National, Magazine, Analysis, Mark Hoskins

There’s been a lot of talk lately about participatory and direct democracy. Renewed interest in alternative forms of organising society has arisen from increasing dissatisfaction with mainstream politics and the domination of the economy by a few corporations. This dissatisfaction has found its expression in the Arab spring, the May 15th movement in Spain and the Occupy movement in the English-speaking world. Where the anti-capitalist movement of the last decade focussed almost exclusively on the power of the corporations and finance capital, this current tendency is to also focus on politics and the state.