The Next New Left explores the challenge of activist renewal in the
age of austerity. Over the past few decades, state policy-makers
and employers have engaged in a massive process of neo-liberal
restructuring that has undermined the basis for social and labour
movements. In this book, Alan Sears seeks to understand the social
environment that made activist mobilization possible - and was
largely taken for granted - during the twentieth century. Just as
the neo-liberal era has restructured the very foundations of our
lives, so too has it undermined the previously existing
infrastructure of dissent, meaning that renewal in social movements
will depend on the development of new forms of activist
capacity-building. The low frequency of social struggles and mass
protests in today's society exposes the need for new work by
activists and theorists to confront neo-liberalism and austerity
head-on, and to understand the basis of activism and the
possibilities of its renewal. By examining social movements of the
past, Sears's analysis focuses on the means through which activists
develop the capacity for solidarity, communication and
demonstration and provides readers with possibilities for a renewal
of activism in response to the deteriorating living conditions
caused by the ongoing austerity offensive.
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