Strategy Series - How do we Deal with Activist Burnout?

About The Course

Strategy is not just a word. Strategy is about how we all within the trade union and wider labour movement build the power and capacity to improve workers lives. The employers have strategy, the managers have strategy, and it is vital that as a united labour movement we build our own. This series will include discussions from leading thinkers on; reviving the trade union movement, how we build union strategy, the role of women and feminist approaches to our unions, strategies for developing activists and the capacity to win campaigns big and small.

How do we Deal with Activist Burnout? will be delivered by Hannah Proctor, who holds a Wellcome Trust University Award at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author of two books: Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria’s ‘Romantic Science’ and Soviet Social History (published as part of the Palgrave Macmillan series ‘Mental Health in Historical Perspective’ in 2020) and Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). She is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and contributing editor at Parapraxis.