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Building a revolutionary outfit: security and socialist aesthetics
As an indication of the state of the class struggle, the contest for the streets is still central to progressive politics, says NICK WRIGHT — and how leftists take to the streets matters too
Building a revolutionary outfit: security and socialist aesthetics

MUCH of politics is performance. The exuberant picket lines of this past year, the mass character of the strike movement and the enormous public support strikers and their families enjoy have breached the cloak of silence that renders the working-class movement invisible.

Mass mobilisation has transformed our routine activity into headline news.

The witty wordplay and irreverent humour of nurses and medics have transformed weary picket lines into living tableaus, while many union leaders now strive to emulate Mick Lynch’s deadpan delivery.

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