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In what way the new social movements are different from the old social movements?

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New social movements are the ones which talk about current and new issues such as environmentalism and demands for the rights of women.

New social movements are not organised along class lines. They do not talk about old issues of economic inequality. Identity politics, cultural anxieties and aspirations are essential elements in creating social movements.

Old social movement are the ones which raised old issues like equality for all, peasant movements, anti-colonial movements, etc.

Old social movements were organised along class lines class movements and workers movements are such old movements.