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Please join Hilary Wainwright, Laura Parker, Alex Nunns and Aeron Davis to discuss the ideas at the heart of Hilary’s new book: A New Politics From the Left. 6-7.30, Thursday 10th May LG01 Lecture Theatre, the Professor Stuart Hall building Goldsmiths, University of London Millions of people passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity, authoritarianism and fear. They reject both corporate capitalism and an elite political system over which they have no control, but they are skeptical of the traditional weapons of the left: seizing state power and devising top-down solutions. They are inventing a new politics based on principles of participatory democracy, cooperation and self-government. In this urgent and original polemic, activist and academic Hilary Wainwright shows that this new politics must start from sharing the tacit knowledge and creativity of each individual. Power should not be exercised as domination, the imposition of paternalistic rule by well-meaning experts, but as a collaborative exercise in nurturing and asserting the transformative capacity of the many. Hilary Wainwright is founder and currently co-editor of Red Pepper and a Fellow of the international think tank for progressive politics, the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. A leading voice of the British Left, she is a pro-Corbyn campaigner and an activist in Momentum. Laura Parker recently moved from being Jeremy Corbyn’s private secretary to taking over as National Coordinator for Momentum. Before that she spent more than ten years working in the NGO and charity sector. Alex Nunns is author of The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power, winner of the 2017 Bread and Roses Award for radical publishing. Aeron Davis is Professor of Political Communication and Co-Director of Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre. His most recent book is Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment. This event is open to all and no registration is necessary. To find Goldsmiths, click here<http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/>. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------