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2020, Interface
Like many radical spaces around the planet, Interface has struggled in the coronavirus pandemic. It is fundamentally a volunteer project depending on the time and energy of a changing mix of people whose lives have been in some cases hugely disrupted over the past year, like so many people around the world. As activists and/or as academics, we have struggled in solidarity with our movements, people immediately in need, students and others who have had first call on our time. Many editors have had to step back temporarily from the project for the duration of the crisis in order to attend to these things, or have not been able to do as much as they had hoped. In early 2020, Lesley Wood, Sutapa Chattopadhyay and I put out a call for stories of movement struggles around the world in Covid-19. We published those accounts week-to-week and then brought them together in an extraordinary special edition in July. Since that point, many other movement journals have started to publish comparable collections, and movements have moved on once again. This issue reflects that change: with many other spaces to publish in, both activist and academic, it is marked particularly by longer and less immediate pieces. They are none the less important for that: despite much rhetoric, there will be no "building back better" unless movements are able to win their struggles; and the bigger challenges, whether marked by the sidelining of the extraordinary popular uprisings in the US in favour of a new statist centrism or by a new wave of repression in Hong Kong, by the continued ecological crisis or femicidal violence across the planet, call for much greater dialogue and learning between movements "from below and on the left". In this issue As Tomás MacSheoin's recent overview of "international" social movement journals noted, Interface has always been less confined to the global North than most, while still having far to go. A key principle for our work is to have regional editors and editorial collectives, so that what is relevant, and how movements can be thought about, is not something decided by a purely metropolitan editorial board. If we genuinely want to learn from each other's struggles, that cannot mean (as so often) projecting the interests and concerns of a US-based (or UK-based, or West European) understanding onto the wider world and selecting the movements that fit into that narrative: it has to mean creating space for the many worlds of our movements to speak, and to listen to each other directly.
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In December of 2010, a man in small town in Tunisia set his body ablaze. Muhammad Bouaziz's act of self-immolation, and the subsequent tireless efforts of people in SidiBouzid to bring this revolutionary act of self-sacrifice to national attention, set the spark ablaze for what has been described as the Arab Spring of Revolutions in 2011, unleashing uprisings that spread from Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, and Jordan and have reverberated globally. Bouaziz's sacrifice was the spark for an incredible new phase in contemporary Arab history. From the fall of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt to the unprecedented challenges by popular movements to regimes in Morocco and across the Arab world to the Gulf, these revolts clearly show that a new century has begun. A great deal has already been written about these "Arab uprisings" as they continue to unfold and touch regions well beyond the Arab world. This new phase in local history is the product of long-term pol...
The conference took place on December 6 th , the day after the death of Nelson Mandela. Several people at the conference had met Nelson Mandela and had worked in solidarity with the ANC; one thing the event did was to concentrate participants' minds on the long tradition of Irish political solidarity with South Africa which has ranged from Irish support given to the Boers in turn-of-the century South Africa to the somewhat different support shown to the anti-apartheid movement in the 1970s and 1980s. This served as a stark illustration of the different meanings people have ascribed to solidarity in different eras. While it would be impossible to do full justice to a range of papers that discussed case studies from Palestine solidarity and NATO intervention in Libya to solidarity practices in Rossport, NW Ireland, certain key oppositions and common problems emerged from the day. These were: 1. The opposition between political and humanitarian understandings of solidarity, in part...
Overview On June 28, the Transnational Institute Amsterdam hosted a symposium with activists from a range of movements and researchers from the three main European networks of social movement research (Council for European Studies, European Sociological Association, European Consortium for Political Research). The goal was to share experiences from participants' different standpoints, map out the current situation of movement organising in Europe, and identify strategic implications in a way that can be usefully shared with activists across Europe. The participants were The symposium discussed three key questions: 1. Where are movements at? New and old elements, strengths and weaknesses (introduced by Benjamin Tejerina) 2. How can movements help each other? Networking across differences, solidarity, building a European movement? (introduced by Marianne Maeckelbergh) 3. How can movements win? Movement strategy in the crisis (introduced by Laurence Cox) Following the event we aske...
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