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Published in: TransformationDale Farm: an eviction anniversaryWhile at Dale Farm, I consider myself to have witnessed an incidence of ethnic cleansing. Basildon Council argued...
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Published in: TransformationHow did Gandhi win?What underpins the transformative impact of campaigning? Short term success or failure may be a poor guide to the future.
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Published in: TransformationThe young Roma women who are changing their communitiesEleni wants to go to school. She can read and write already and says emphatically: “I don’t want to be given to get...
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Published in: TransformationSmall steps, big changes: how social media contribute to social transformationSocial media facilitate differing degrees of involvement in political action, helping more people to take small...
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Published in: TransformationSocial cleansing not social housing: how councils use poor people against themselvesThis week Focus E15 Mothers showed how London councils are prising out tenants, replacing their homes with expensive...
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Published in: TransformationSurviving the ups and downs of social movementsThe fluctuating cycles of popular movements can’t be avoided, so how do activists translate periods of peak activity...
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Published in: TransformationStudent activism is being sabotaged and this is why it mattersPoliticians and the police are attempting to depoliticise student unions and repress student activism. To strengthen...
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Published in: TransformationForced episiotomy: Kelly's storyEvery patient has the right to say “no” to a doctor. Informed consent means that a doctor doesn’t get to say, “I am...
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Published in: TransformationWhy the Internet makes the personal even more politicalOnline interactions have changed the ways people participate in politics. The second in our series on social media...
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Published in: TransformationDoes the left still need transformation?Strategy is weak without soul: readers react to openDemocracy’s newest section, and where it goes next.
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Published in: TransformationCollective memory, collective trauma, collective hatredTrauma runs through the narratives of both Israelis and Palestinians in the form of the Holocaust and the Nakba. But...
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Published in: TransformationWhen marches aren't news, and media stunts failThe strategic step to convert people and energy on the streets into material gains for Palestinians is never taken,...
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Published in: TransformationWe are all complicit in the bombardment of Gaza"We always wonder if we killed the right people, if we endangered the wrong people, if we destroyed an innocent...
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Published in: TransformationYou can add us to equations but they never make us equal: participatory budgeting in BostonHow would you spend one million dollars of public money? From a house made of bacon to public WiFi booths,...
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Published in: TransformationWhen the pillars fall: how social movements can win more victories like same-sex marriageIn only ten years, widespread opposition to same-sex marriage in the USA has been transformed into equally...
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Published in: TransformationArt for the sake of life: the history of Palestine's Freedom TheatreOver 900 Palestinians and 40 Israelis have been killed in Operation Protective Edge. Despite the violence, The...
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Published in: TransformationWhy social movements need the radical imaginationBook extract: The radical imagination often emerges most brilliantly from those who encounter the greatest or most...
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Published in: TransformationLet's share! Please provide your credit card information to get startedSharing has been monetized – from Task Rabbit, which allows you to pay people to go grocery shopping, to websites...
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Published in: TransformationTrigger warning: trigger warnings (towards a different approach)The main point of trigger warnings is to open up the possibility for people to determine what they engage with, when and how.
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Published in: TransformationIsrael's wall: 10 years justice denied"Operation Protective Edge" is under way, with air strikes in Gaza, 22 Palestinians killed and rockets fired at...
