The Billionaire-Funded Networks that Draw Young People into the Nutty World of Doctrinaire Far-Left Activism
Last week you may have spotted activists kicking off at the Reform UK Conference. During Nigel Farage’s conference speech, a young man interrupted to shout out “Nigel, you are not a man of the people. You work for the billionaires”, while another woman from the same activist group was thrown out for being disruptive. These campaigners were from Climate Resistance, which describes itself as “a radical grassroots collective fighting for justice through strategic, direct action campaigns”.
But how do these far Left groups recruit their activists? Many would like the public to think their young members naturally came to join their movements and to hold views such as “Climate justice can only be achieved by dismantling the systems of oppression that are driving intersecting environmental, social, and economic crises”, as Climate Resistance puts it. However, these groups are far more organised than their anarchic appearances suggest. Take Climate Resistance, which invites activists to sign up to welcome talks (with banner-making) – one of several such events taking place in Whitechapel, London:
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Erm. A bit of attention to detail on the editing would help. Far too many ‘image.png’ without any actual images.
Better now. Thanks.
“What is the Right-wing equivalent, do you think?”
Good question. Depends what you mean by “right wing”. I don’t really have a “doctrine” to become indoctrinated with – at least not what I consider a doctrine. I believe in freedom of speech and association, bodily autonomy, and extremely limited government. So my “doctrine” is mainly about removing restrictions and limiting state power. I don’t want to change society or the world by forcing others to live their lives differently. I also accept that work is the foundation of prosperity so I certainly wouldn’t want to become a full time activist and the idea of doing that in my valuable spare time is not appealing – perhaps that is a weakness.
Does anyone remember the melt down at Evergreen College before the Wuhan Flu insanity??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W55Ut2sxy4M
The Most Disturbing College Students I’ve Ever Seen (the Evergreen story)
I know there’s much more important information to comment on in this piece, but I just can’t get past that Summer Gathering 2025 poster with ’29nd’ on. Perhaps they’re not that polished an organisation after all.