person:hilary wainwright

  • Tweetin’ ’bout a revolution: Red Pepper interviews with Paul Mason (En anglais)
    http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/tweetin-bout-a-revolution-red-pepper-interviews-with-paul-maso

    Hilary Wainwright (Red Pepper) You highlight the commonalities of the different revolts of 2011, but how do we understand the differences between revolts against authoritarian regimes and exhausted democracies? Is there a problem with this generality? Paul Mason I’m looking for what’s common rather than making generalities. First of all, one revolt feeds off another, and you can’t underestimate the physical link: again and again, among people who were involved in March 26 in the UK, J14 in Israel, Wisconsin, you meet people who had been to Tahrir. (...) Source: En anglais