04 February, 2012 // Category:
Yes, it’s kicking off everywhere. Over the last 18 months we have seen a sea change in resistance and popular consciousness. The Arab Spring has put revolution back on the agenda of global politics. In Britain, we’ve seen the occupation of Millbank and student revolt, the huge TUC March and...
02 February, 2012 // Category: Culture
The Coalition Government’s long awaited Film Policy Review (published Monday 16th Jan and available here) was overshadowed by David Cameron’s comments during a visit to Pinewood Studios. Cameron summarized the Coalition’s attitude to the cinema in the following way: “Our role, and that of...
02 February, 2012 // Category:
Paul Mason is Economics Editor of BBC2’s Newsnight. NLP is the media partner for today’s launch of his new book Why it’s Kicking Off Everywhere. Based on a blogpost that went viral in February 2011, Mason’s new book explores the global revolutionary social movements of the past couple of...
01 February, 2012 // Category:
Paul Mason is Economics Editor of BBC2’s Newsnight. This week sees the launch of his new book Why it’s Kicking Off Everywhere. Based on a blogpost that went viral in February 2011, Mason explores the global revolutionary social movements of the past couple of years. In this interview he...
31 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Terror/War
Sakurai Kunitoshi is a member of the Okinawan Environmental Network, professor (and until 2010 the President) of Okinawa University, and a Councilor of the Japan Society of Impact Assessment. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the history and impact of US military basing in Okinawa. What is the...
30 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Book Review, International
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions, by Paul Mason, Verso, 2012, p237 Anyone who experienced first-hand the student occupations and protests at the back end of 2010 will find themselves – upon reading the chapter on that subject in Paul Mason’s new book, 'Why It's...
27 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Economy
Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at Portland State University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy and he is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. In the first of a series of regular columns for NLP Hahnel considers whether the...
26 January, 2012 // Category:
Like so many movements for equality and social justice, the student protest movement in the UK and the occupy movement in the US have come up against the capitalist state in its most immediate and repressive form: the police. Robert Reiner is professor of criminology at the London School of...
25 January, 2012 // Category: International, Politics
Paul Street is an activist and author whose works include Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11, The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power, and Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty...
23 January, 2012 // Category: International, Terror/War
Joseph Gerson is director of programs at the American Friends Service Committee and the author of Empire and the Bomb amongst other works. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the Pentagon's new strategic guidance document. The Pentagon’s new Guidance, 'Sustaining US Global Leadership: priorities...
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