By Tim Gee
This well timed ebook argues that no significant circulation has ever been winning with no counterpower, or the facility that the "have-nots" can use to take away the ability of the "haves."
Investigating the heritage and strategies of significant hobbies of the previous and today's worldwide justice and human rights events, Tim Gee demonstrates what works and what doesn't paintings. In displaying how counterpower may be strategically utilized, Gee has created an idea for activists and a useful source for lecturers and scholars of social change.
Tim Gee is a author and communications professional operating with campaigning firms within the uk and worldwide.
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Anti-poll tax leagues emerged across Scotland, especially in Glasgow, with non-payment their preferred method. Thanks to public meetings, mass door-knocking campaigns and pledgesigning (all examples of Idea Counterpower), the support for the Economic Counterpower of non-payment became widespread. As the date for the extension of the poll tax to England and Wales approached, so the anti-poll tax organizations spread there too, using the same methods. 28 As local council after local council set their poll tax rates, mass protests took place on town hall steps right across the country.
A breakaway movement from the Indian National Congress emerged. Former Congress leader Subhash Chandra Bose formed his own political party, and then an army that cooperated with the Japanese to challenge British power militarily. He formed a government-in-exile in Japanesecontrolled territory, fought the British directly in Burma, and even briefly captured and ruled two sets of Indian islands, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, which were renamed Shahid (‘Martyr’) and Swaraj (‘Home Rule’). Like Gandhi’s Quit India movement, Bose’s Indian National Army was ultimately defeated by the overwhelming physical military power of the British.
Such explicit uses of force are usually only utilized when coercion through ideology or economics has failed. ’ This may be a version of a longer quotation by the US trade unionist Nicholas Klein, who in 1914 declared: ‘First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. ’ Both are instructive. This chapter will interrogate this rhetoric by looking at three movements of the 20th century. It would seem that Klein and Gandhi were right about campaigners being ignored, laughed at and fought.