30 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last month New Left Project published an edition of Dan Hind's new pamphlet, Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty, which makes a powerful case for generalising the model of public meetings and discussion popularised by the Occupy movement, to empower 'the 99%' to reclaim...
29 April, 2012 // Category: China, International, Politics
Wang Kang, a sixty-something, well connected man about Chongqing, calls himself a buyi, a term loosely meaning ‘unaffiliated scholar.’ Mr Wang’s scholarship consists of a low level but productive multimedia career, one which has seen him apparently gain widespread familiarity with the city’s...
27 April, 2012 // Category: Education, Politics
I have worked all my life in education, as a teacher, head teacher and governor, in all sorts of schools, grammar, comprehensive and secondary modern – even a few years in a private school in New York. Being asked to contribute to Public Service on the Brink forced me to try to make better sense...
26 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Politics
Development officer, community mobilizer, public defender – the Ugandan MP wears many caps. This situation applies across much of sub-Saharan Africa, where acting as representative on a national assembly may rank only second among an MP’s chief concerns. This article takes a closer look at the...
25 April, 2012 // Category: International, Law, Racism
Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/Israel. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Electronic Intifada. He is the author of 'Israeli Apartheid' (2009) and, most recently, 'Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and...
24 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Environment
There is a difference between radicals and reformers. Radicals believe we need fundamental “system change” because as long as the system is left in place it will prove impossible to solve important problems. Absent system change, radicals believe solutions can only be partial and remain...
20 April, 2012 // Category: Philosophy and Theory, Terror/War
Any British or American reader who picks up this book is more than likely to have come across a sort of joke French intellectual called Bernard-Henri Lévy, usually known as BHL in France, where the acronym has become his signature. They may have come across his name during the recent Dominique...
20 April, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, International, Terror/War
The increasingly close relationship between Google and the US “democracy promotion” apparatus recently took a new turn with the launch of a new, private, non-profit organisation designed to leverage the resources of major US corporations in manipulating democratic movements in (initially) four...
19 April, 2012 // Category: Economy, History
This has been written as a response to Jason Hickel's recent article for NLP on neoliberalism. While I have sympathy with Hickel’s arguments (and have actually made similar ones in the past myself), I want to take issue with a specific part of these arguments, namely how he has characterized...
17 April, 2012 // Category: Book Review, History, Labour movement, Vision/Strategy
Socialism with a Northern Accent: Radical traditions for modern times, by Paul Salveson, Lawrence & Wishart, 2011 George Galloway’s recent triumph in the Bradford West by-election probably wasn’t, as claimed, “the most sensational victory in British political history”. But it was an undeniably...
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