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“Protest is like begging the powers that be to dig a well. Direct action is digging the well and daring them to stop you.” – David Graeber.
A Labour Party with a landslide majority but a corporate hand wedged firmly up their beknighted backside? A war in the Middle East where we’re arming the wrong side? Draconian protest laws inherited from a Tory government that collapsed in sleaze? Have the SchNEWS crew taken the last purple Ohms on Planet Earth and travelled back to the glory days of the 90s? A glance at the grey hairs in the mirror suggests not. However, there’s no doubt that history here is starting to rhyme.
There’s a tiny glimmer from the election of some Greens and the baker’s union dozen of Corbynites – but bugger all on offer from the elites to tackle the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, or blatant corporate corruption.
There’s hope in the huge upsurge of disgust and resistance to the massacre in Gaza, the defining horror of our times. Rarely has there been such a gulf between the elite narrative and common sense on the street around foreign affairs. Too much to go into here, but you factory wreckers, road blockers, marchers and fighters know who you are. This issue we’re going to look at other green shoots breaking through the concrete.
As we knew in the decade when SchNEWS began – and it’s always been the case since the year dot – hope and change lies with grassroots direct action and community campaigns…
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