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This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods in history when large numbers of people have rebelled against the way things are, demanding change, such as in 1848, 1917, and 1968. Today we are living in another time of outrage and discontent, a time that has already produced some of the largest protests in world history. This book analyzes almost three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101 countries covering over 93 per cent of the world population. The study focuses on the major demands driving world protests, such as those for real democracy, jobs, public services, social protection, civil rights, global justice, and those against austerity and corruption. It also analyzes who was demonstrating in each protest; what protest methods they used; who the protestors opposed; what was achieved; whether protests were repressed; and trends such as inequality and the rise of women's and radical right protests. The book concludes that the demands of protestors in most of the protests surveyed are in full accordance with human rights and internationally agreed-upon UN development goals. The book calls for policy-makers to listen and act on these demands.

This book contends that the impasse of the Left today is in part, a result of an anarchist 'common sense' among activists. The author argues that the vital dynamics of anarchism and social movements need to be combined with a reappraisal of the Communist party and state. While cynicism towards capitalism and existing political institutions is plentiful, this book argues that the Left appears mired in a reactive politics of resistance, unable to formulate programmes for substantive social change. Drawing insights from the history of the Left, political economy, contemporary critical theory and an in-depth study of Occupy, the author provides concrete suggestions as to how the Left might 'claim the twenty-first century' and realise a more equitable social order. Social Movements and Democracy in the 21st Century challenges activists and scholars to rethink social movements and political organisation, and to actively work towards enduring social change. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of social movement studies, Left theory, critical theory, political sociology and Marxism, as well as anyone with an interest in 'political change'.

Preliminary Material /Euripides Altintzoglou and Martin Fredriksson -- Why Men Rebel? The History of the Great Question since Ancient Greece until Arab Spring /Aleksandra Porada -- Agent Art vs. Resistance to Freedom /Ceren Selmanpakoğlu -- Deflowered Revolution: An Ethical Examination of Neo-Liberal Tactics of Pacification /Euripides Altintzoglou -- East Germany's Ecological Revolution: The Third Way /Martin Blum -- The Erotic as an Act of Resistance to the Despotism of the State: Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk as an Example /Sarah Nagaty.

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Confronting the Crisis of Democracy -- The Crisis of Democracy and the Rise of Neoliberalism -- Chapter Content -- Note -- Part I: Situating Contestation -- 2: The Arc of Contention -- From the French Revolution to the First International -- The Paris Commune -- From the Second International to the Exhaustion of the Old Left -- New Social Movements and the New Left -- Contesting Neoliberalism -- Summary -- Note -- 3: Rethinking Social Movements -- North American Social Movement Studies -- European New Social Movement Studies -- The Activist Perspective -- Marxism and the Study of Social Movements -- Summary -- Notes -- 4: The Dynamics of Capital -- Capital's Key Dynamics -- From Keynesianism to the Financial Crisis of 2008 -- Summary -- Note -- 5: Reconceptualising Political Strategy -- Destabilising Marxism -- Multiplicity and Effective Political Action -- Populism and Antagonism -- On the Subjective Dimension of Revolt -- Exodus -- Summary -- Notes -- Part II: Contesting the Twenty-First Century: An Analysis of Occupy -- 6: Occupy, Democracy, and Enduring Change -- Methods -- Occupy's Economic Critique-The Economic Crisis Is also a Crisis of Democracy -- The Quest for Democracy -- General Assemblies -- Horizontalism -- To Make Demands? -- The Problem of Endurance -- Summary -- Notes -- 7: The Subject of Change -- Conceptualising Class -- Occupy and Class -- Tensions in the 99 Percent -- Summary -- Notes -- 8: Locating Effective Resistance -- Cyber-Optimism -- Cyber-Scepticism -- Occupy-Analogue or Digital? -- Occupy's Spatial Dimension -- Summary -- Notes -- Part III: Claiming the Twenty-First Century -- 9: Reconceptualising Effective Action -- Recovering the State -- Movements and Parties -- Moving Beyond Our "1848 Moment"-Communism and the Communist Party -- Summary -- Notes

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