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90: This is only the beginning – the making of a new left

The Another Europe Podcast

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Anarchism in the Labour Party in 2015

Anarchism in the early 2010s is fascinating and it's got a lot to do with various things, you know, this is the moment probably the first great moment where social media is playing a real role in social movements. There's a very kind of natural and quite fervent horizontalism, suspicion of institutions because the institutions you can see around you are all crap. All of this intensely creative, hard to pin down sense of politics leaves all of these people doubly vulnerable to the trappings of Labourism. They don't really have a conception of what it is like to be a left wing, a left winger in the Labour Party because they reject that road out of hand. And

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