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The 2010s saw a new era of mass protest, from Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria, to Occupy Wall Street, EuroMaidan and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Many of these movements shared a “horizontalist” or leaderless approach and most of them ended in failure. Vincent Bevins experienced some of these movements up close. In his latest book he tries to explain why the movements of the “New Left” didn’t succeed and what lessons we can learn from them. You can buy Vincent's book here: https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/vincent-bevins-2/if-we-burn-the-mass-protest-decade-and-the-missing-revolution/9781035412273/ Novara Live broadcasts every weekday from 6PM on YouTube and Twitch. Episodes of Downstream are released Sundays at 6PM on YouTube. __________________________ Can you help fund people-powered media? To be ready for next year, we need 5,000 of you to join our regular supporters and back our work. Donate one hour’s wage per month, or whatever you can afford at http://novara.media/support today.