How to Start a Revolution from Your Bed

Is protest worth the effort? This new issue of the Idler looks at the history and the present of protest movements and asks whether there is any point in taking to the streets, or whether a more effective form of revolt might be to make a revolution in your everyday life. Articles include: Tom Hodgkinson argues that anti-war marches are futile and that much more can be achieved by lying in bed doing nothing, Jay Griffiths meets the Papuan tribe who protested against their oppressors by eating them, and many other examples are examined.

The Idler magazine, devoted to idleness in all its forms, looks at the history and the present state of Protest movements, and asks whether there is any point in taking to the streets or would it be more effective to make a revolution in our everyday lives.

Tom Hodgkinson is the author of How To Be Free and How To Be Idle. Dan Kieran is deputy editor of the Idler. He is the editor of Crap Jobs, Crap Holidays, and The Idler Book of Crap Towns, and he has written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, and The Times.