The Occupy Wall Street and associated protests represent the re-emergence of social struggle at the center of American political life after an absence of several decades. In this context, the ISO ...

I saw identity politics tear the Occupy movement apart. Economic leftists must ditch wokeness. Democrats can challenge the populist GOP for working-class votes, but they have to focus on what ...

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Wisconsin's Act 10 protests preceded the Occupy Movement, but Walker goes too far in saying the Wisconsin protests gave birth to Occupy protests.

That is, the activist identity serves to keep political activity to small, self-marginalizing sets of people who revel in how different they are from everyone else.

In “ Occupy Wall Street movement at a crossroads,” the WSWS wrote that the repression “poses all the more directly the fundamental political issues raised by the protest, above all the ...

The next two weeks are crucial in deciding its identity and structure, say a host of experts who study grass-roots political movements.

To earn endorsement from America's most populous generation, Occupy must evolve from a protest movement to a political movement.

A excellent piece on the 'middle class' and the Occupy movement, and how this identity and experience has shaped what the movement has looked like. This article appears in LBC Books new collection of ...

They exist on the edges of political culture for a reason: Most people in the middle don't feel strongly enough to participate, leaving the hardened ideologues to craft the identity of the movement.

But the Occupy movement has a greater chance of success if it adopts even more of this new generation's characteristics. Like neatness, and a local action plan.