micro-managing the Arab Spring: on NGOs, management, movements, and social change
This is an excerpt from "Anarchists in the board room - how social movements and social media can help your organisation be more like people", by Liam Barrington-Bush. Liam is…
You, too, will come to love this Gideon
The most enthusiastic Bright Green fans, or Bri-hards as I believe you're called, might remember that I used to work on a World Development Movement campaign against the banks who…
Architecture of the left: our generation must build to win
I was asked to speak in the youth plenary at Compass conference this weekend. This is roughly what I said. From the Russian border to the French Atlantic, the historic…
Aid commitments – NGOs biggest success, and their biggest failure.
Twice in recent weeks, question time audiences have asked why the government is ring fencing aid budgets whilst cutting the NHS. This at once shows the monumental effectiveness of development…
Unions & NGOs back UK Uncut
This is a letter from a number of NGOs and unions in support of UK Uncut. Protest has been a means for progressive change throughout human history - and it…
Are our NGOs being bought off?
I've been meaning to write this post for a while. But I never quite found the impetus to pull together the examples to paint the picture that I thought I…
On charity, solidarity & NGOs
Part of our ongoing series on 'how the left has lost'. The last 25 years has seen a transformation of the architecture of the left which has been matched only…