Parties and Movements

TNI

June 2005

Hilary Wainwright The Left and Power - the Italian way TNI Website, 5 May 2005

Hilary Wainwright Report on the Methodology of the WSF and its Possible Relevance for the 2006 ESF
TNI Website, 23 February 2005
Informe sobre la metodología del FSM y su posible importancia para el FSE 2006

Hilary Wainwright World Social Forum on Trial TNI Website, 16 February 2005

Daniel Chavez The PT loses Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre:
The end of a cycle for the Brazilian Left? TNI Website, 2 November 2004

Hilary Wainwright Deepening Democracy
Talk at the Democracy and Human Rights Plenary of the Asian Europe People's Forum, Hanoi, 6 - 9 September 2004
TNI Website, 2 November 2004

Hilary Wainwright Civil Society, Democracy and Power: Global Connections, in Global Civil Society Yearbook 2004/5, Sage Publications, October 2004.

Hilary Wainwright Labour’s Hollow Drum Red Pepper, October 2004

Hilary Wainwright Union Wild Card Seeks to Trump Modernisers from Within Red Pepper, October 2004

Transform! Italia Ricerca sull'innovazione nel PRC
A Study on Innovation in the Rifondazione comunista party
New Politics Working Paper, August 2004

Hilary Wainwright Reclaiming the "The Public" through the People TNI Website, June 2004
Has the wave of neo-liberalism spanned over the last two decades immersed the institutions of social democracy irreversibly, or could they be retrieved and updated? Beginning with this question, Wainwright reviews the damage done to social democracy, dismissing a new "brand" of mixed economy ("a third way"), and suggests a "third dimension" - one concerned with the principles of organisation internal to specific market and state institutions. Learning from the successful examples, Wainwright sees a possibility in the combination of representative institutions, which determine the principles and general direction of an elected government, and participatory democracy processes, that provide ways in which people can play a further decisive role in the detailed elaboration of these principles.

Hilary Wainwright New Politics: Principles, Practice, Challenges speech at the TNI Fellows' Meeting, 22 May 2004
Recent social movements have been deeply political and in some ways more radically political than any left political party. They have accumulated knowledge embedded in experience and in practice, socializing it and turning it into a source of transformative power, but they have no direct access or relationship with the political process. Wainwright looks into the ways movements could be politically represented without being complicit in existing power relations, thus being able to create alternatives.

Patrick Bond Assessing the Latin American Left (part 2) TNI Website, 23 June 2004
Report on the conference The New Latin American Left: Origins and Future Trajectory. In this second part Bond reports on four countries that were recently captured by leftists (Venezuela, Brazil and Ecuador), or are about to be (Uruguay).

Patrick Bond Assessing the Latin American Left (part 1) Znet, 11 May 2004
Report on the conference The New Latin American Left: Origins and Future Trajectory. The dissatisfaction with the disastrous neo-liberal policies in Latin America and the failure of democratic reforms have pushed people to rethink their political strategies and the new wave of Left governments and movements has spread throughout the region. Representatives of movements and parties from ten Latin American countries gathered at the conference "The New Latin American Left: Origins and Future Trajectory", organised by TNI and the Haven's Center at the University of Wisconsin. Patrick Bond reports.

Roz Paterson Scotland's Brave New World Red Pepper, May 2004
"People up trees and down mines and round trade-union negotiating tables came together to mould the SSP, and they're still bloody well arguing today, which is probably a very good thing". Roz Patterson celebrates the plurality and electoral success of the Scottish Socialist Party.

Achin Vanaik Rendezvous at Mumbai New Left Review 26, March-April 2004
Commenting on the World Social Forum, which took place among great inequalities of Mumbai, Vanaik sees urgent need for greater collaboration between the main radical actors – parties, unions, movements and progressive NGOs – with the crucial task being how best to combine the politics of the universal and the politics of the particular.

Hilary Wainwright Divided, We Need not Fall The Guardian, 27 March 2004
Wainwright welcomes new developments in some of British labour unions that have turned their back on the Labour Party in favour of parties that that still uphold principles of social justice. She sees this as an important development ahead of the local British and Euro elections in June.

Hilary Wainwright The People Resist Blair [Italian translation] La rivista del manifesto, March 2004
In this article published in Il Manifesto's La Revista, Wainwright explores the rise of Blair as leader of New Labour, his support for the Bush doctrine in spite of public opposition, and the subsequent crisis of legitimacy of the Labour Party. She sees hope lying with trade union dissent, pointing to the recent switching of allegiance from the Labour Party to the Scottish Socialist Party by a founding member of the former, the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union, indicative of new winds in the British Left. The traditional hegemony of the Labour Party over the working people of Britain is being shaken, opening space for new alliances between the British labour movement and emerging new peace and alterglobalisation movements in the search for alternatives.

Marcos Arruda O PT como poder e contra-poder ALAI, América Latina en Movimiento, 26 February 2004
With the fears of Brazil's Lula government distancing itself from its electorate, Arruda advocates stronger citizen participation, a government which responds to the daily needs of its citizens.

Hilary Wainwright The RMT Shows the Way Red Pepper, March 2004
With the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union's new alliance with the Scottish Socialist Party, Wainwright sees new opportunities for the British left. The renewal of the Left requires a new relationship with radical campaigning and cultural movements.

Hilary Wainwright From Mumbai with Hope Red Pepper, March 2004
As the fourth World Social Forum in Mumbai showed, the Social Forum movement continues to go from strength to strength. Hilary Wainwright explains what distinguishes this new way of organising for social justice from the labour movements and political parties of old.

Miguel Teubal and Norma Giarracca Argentina: Twenty Years of Democracy. Kirchner and the Piqueteros TNI Website, January 2004

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