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November 2005

Networked Politics:
Rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks
A reader produced by TNI, Transform! Italia, IGOP, Euromovements
January 2007
Networked Politics is the product of a collaborative research process for rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks. It examines the role of social movements, progressive parties, political institutions and new ‘techno-political tools’ in achieving transformative change.
See also www.networked-politics.info

Aiding the blockade February 2007
By Hilary Wainwright
From academic seminars to birthday parties,
there are no end of ways to blockade
Faslane, writes Hilary Wainwright

Letters from America 9 January 2007
By John Gittings

Our Space: the new frontier November 2006
By Hilary Wainwright

Imagine there’s no leaders October 2006
By Hilary Wainwright and Steve Platt
Imagine there’s no leaders. It’s easy if you try...But is it? Three leaders representing parties of different shades of the left – Tony Blair, Tommy Sheridan and President Lula – have each arguably all but destroyed the parties they were elected to represent. Such leadership crises are part and parcel of the left tradition. So what is it about the left and its leaders? What kind of leadership do we want – or need?

Rethinking political organisation in an era of movements, war and the global market
Hilary Wainwright
Repensando la organización política en una era de movimientos, guerras y mercado global
Opening address at the XXII CLACSO General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, 20 August 2006

Hilary Wainwright The interplay of the independent media and radical politics Transnational Institute, 2 August 2006
La interacción entre los medios de comunicación independientes y las políticas radicales de izquierdas

Talking about a Revolution Patrick Barrett interviews Hilary Wainwright

The Emerging New Euroleft April 2006
Hilary Wainwright

Looking beyond Labour: How to build a new party of the left 27 March 2006
Hilary Wainwright

Who will speak for us? March 2006
Hilary Wainwright

Hacer o
no hacer: los gobiernos progresistas de Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay frente a las
privatizaciones [PDF] enero de 2007
Por Daniel Chavez

Creación del partido único: ¿Aborto del debate sobre el Socialismo del Siglo XXI?
Edgardo Lander, 25 December 2006
Those who do not learn from history
By Edgardo Lander
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez followed his re-election in December by announcing a new political party to be 'with him in government'. Edgardo Lander, a Venezuelan academic who has played an active part in the country's revolutionary process, explains his doubts about such an approach to building socialism for the 21st century.

Hilary Wainwright Europe: bridging the emotional gap Red Pepper, November 2005

Hilary Wainwright A new left turn for Europe The Guardian, 2 November 2005

Hilary Wainright The Remaking of the Left in Europe The Guardian, 10 September 2005 [Italian]

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 A new left turn for Europe The Guardian, 2 November 2005

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

Hilary Wainwright The Left and Power. The Italian Way TNI Website, 5 May 2005
As a coalition of the centre, radical and green left prepares to defeat Berlusconi's crisis- ridden government in Italy's 2006 elections, Hilary Wainwright visits the Congress of Rifondazione Comunista in the midst of the dramatic events surrounding the US killing of Italian secret agent and hero, Nicola Calipari.

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

Hilary Wainwright Change the World by Transforming Power - Including State Power! TNI Website, 26 October 2004

Boris Kagarlitsky Social Forum Does London The Moscow Times, 21 October 2004

Susan George This is the Way to Win The Guardian, 15 October 2004

Interview with Susan George Another world is possible, if... Open Democracy, 13 October 2004

Boris Kagarlitsky Is European Division Really Over? Eurotopia, 11 October 2004

Susan George Taking the Movement forward
Published in Anti-capitalism: Where now?, Bookmarks Publications, October 2004

Hilary Wainwright The European Social Forum Comes to London TNI Website, 24 September 2004

Hilary Wainwright New European Left Party Born... And it's a Girl Red Pepper, June 2004

Transform! Italia A Study on Innovation in the "Rifondazione comunista" party TNI New Politics Working Paper, August 2004 - Italian version and Spanish version

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.

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.

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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