Beyond the Ballot Box
Tim Barker: Occupy and Bernie, 8 September 2016
Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt
by Sarah Jaffe.
Nation, 352 pp., £20, August 2016,978 1 56858 536 9 Show More
by Sarah Jaffe.
Nation, 352 pp., £20, August 2016,
“... from within. The next step probably lies, as Occupy did, outside conventional electoral politics. Sarah Jaffe’s Necessary Trouble provides the fullest account yet of the social movements that are attempting to transform American politics. ‘We needed something beyond the ballot box,’ she remembers thinking in 2008, but ‘it wasn’t clear what that ... ”