Why I'm optimistic about 2017 | Paul Mason

If we adapt quickly to the reality of the new world order, we can continue to fight for human rights and social justiceThis Christmas break, for anybody steeped in the assumptions that have underpinned non-mainstream political thinking, needs to be a moment of realisation. Brexit will happen. Globalisation will fall apart. Freedom of movement as an unconditional right in the EU will end. The concept of the west as upholder, and occasional enforcer, of human rights across the world is, at the ver