Tag: social movement analysis

• June 28, 2023

  #FeesMustFall -South Africa’s Student Movement for Free Education

  

  Beginning in October of 2015, South Africa’s #FeesMustFall movement has gone on to send shockwaves through a country struggling with the ever persistent issues of shrinking public budgets, mass unemployment and poverty. As a result, almost every year since, tens of thousands of students take to the streets to demand the right to free education.
• August 17, 2022

  Run This Town: Building Class Power in the City

  

  Posted originally on linchpin.ca (now defunct) By Three Hamilton Members, One Toronto Member of Common Cause The Marxist urbanist Henri Lefebvre wrote that the working class is made out of urban material. His point was that to understand the working class and to organize it, one had to look at everyday working class life from…